Merry Christmas

A  Very Merry Christmas. Hoping this time is filled with much joy and happiness for you all xx

A little bit of Christmas inspiration

The Gold Wrapping Paper 

Once upon a time, there was a man who worked very hard just to keep food on the table for his family. This particular year a few days before Christmas, he punished his little five-year-old daughter after learning that she had used up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper.

As money was tight, he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve he saw that the child had used all of the expensive gold paper to decorate one shoebox she had put under the Christmas tree. He also was concerned about where she had gotten money to buy what was in the shoebox.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!"

As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, now regretting how he had punished her.

But when he opened the shoebox, he found it was empty and again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady," he said harshly, "when you give someone a present, there's supposed to be something inside the package!"

The little girl looked up at him with sad tears rolling from her eyes and whispered: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept this little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.

In a very real sense, each of us has been given an invisible golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

Half way reminder

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much to all you have shared their work so far in the December 2015 Anything-goes link-up. It's great to see the variety of work being shared by JKOC's loyal participants and also some new faces as well. You have until the end of December to get your entries in so keep em' coming :). I have been extremely busy with having one market stall after the other, very exhausting, challenging and fun at the same time. I am hoping to catch up on commenting and blogging very soon. My aim is to be much more organised during the Christmas season from now on, it will definitely make my life much easier.

And the winner is

Thanks so much to those who entered my giveaway. I really appreciate the effort you put in following all the steps.

The two winners as chosen by Random.org are 

CG & Ginny B

Congratulations ladies, you have both won a $50 voucher to your favourite online crafting shop. Please email me at suzartecreations@gmail.com to claim your prizes.

December 2015 Anything goes link-up

It's time for the December  link-up at Just Keep on creating, I hope all of you lovely people will continue to share your creations and I look forward to seeing new participants share their work in the December link-up as well. Just remember you can post any of your creations, even ones you have made prior to this link-up being posted. I look forward to seeing what everyone will be submitting this month.

-You can share your creations from your blog or any public gallery such as flickr, instagram or facebook. If any  problems in submitting your work just email me. The link to email me is on the right sidebar. Please note when sharing your projects from instagram or facebook please provide a direct link to a handmade project and not your whole instagram or facebook account.

-I will be picking a group of featured artists by 01.01.2016, the featured artists will get a badge to display on their blogs.

-It would be greatly appreciated if you upload the Just keep on creating badge on your blog. Since I run this blog myself I need your help in spreading the word about the monthly link-up. If submitting from instagram please re-post the Just keep on creating picture that is on my instagram account.

-Please visit each other and leave some encouraging words about each others awesome creations.

Just keep on creating  has two very generous sponsors this time round so there will be two random winners chosen. The first sponsor is From the heart stamps who is donating $15 of digital stamps.

Faith is the owner of From the heart stamps. Her love of cardmaking and technology inspired her to venture into the world of illustrating stamps in November 2009. Each digi is created with the cardmaker in mind, and is a high-quality, high-resolution image you will use again and again. From The Heart Stamps offers a wide range of images—truly something for everyone. You can also find Faith's illustrations in red rubber exclusively from Whipper Snapper Designs, and soon in clear photopolymer from From the Heart Stamps.

The second sponsor is Dr Digi house of stamps who will be donating two digi's to the second random winner.

DR Digi's House of Stamps is a site that aims to bring you digi stamps with a sense of humour. This site is  not your average Digi site, you won't find flowers and teddy bears.  Well you might.. but it'll be holding a bloody big chainsaw!

1. You can enter as many times as you want, the more entries the better. You can share creations  made before or after the start date of the link-up but please make sure you only share a creation once. 
2. You can combine any amount of challenges with your entry.
3. Please link back to this blog post and mention that you are entering this link-up in your post.
4. Please provide a direct link to your project and not your general blog, this makes it a lot easier for me to comment.Please note when sharing your projects from instagram or facebook please provide a direct link to a handmade project and not your whole instagram or facebook account.
5. Please become a follower if you want to be picked as a featured artist or go into the draw for the random prize offered. Exceptions will be made for participants who aren't able to become followers ie people  submitting from facebook or intsagram. I would really appreciate it though if you re-post the Anything goes link-up picture that is on my instagram page and become a follower on my instagram page.

Challenge stays open till 31st December 2015. 

UPDATE YOUR CREATIONS BELOW

An InLinkz Link-up

Random winner and featured artists for November

A huge thank you to everyone who shared their beautiful creations in the November link-up. It's so good to  see  the number of people sharing their creations has almost doubled from the October link-up, awesome stuff. It's always great to see the loyal participants of JKOC continue to share their work and it's fantastic to see so many new people share their work as well. Everyone's entries were truly inspirational and there was such a variety of entries in the November link-up. I had to do a huge catch up today with commenting etc so I hope I commented properly as I have to admit I was getting stuck everytime I came across "are you a robot" when commenting, if there are any comments that don't make sense please delete them. I try to comment on all submissions and for some reason I am not able to comment be rest assured I have looked at your submission. I look forward to seeing more of everyone's work in the December link-up.

RANDOM PRIZE WINNER

Without further a do the random prize winner as chosen by RANDOM.ORG is 

Zehra.291

who has won $10 worth of digi's from digistamps4joy

Congratulations Zehra

PRIZE CLAIMED

FEATURED ARTISTS

Frezja

Deanne

Cass

Rhonda Miller

J.Atterbury creations

Jackie Cornfield

Gail.L

Gunn-Eirill

Cicci vid Pennan

Amy

Linda

Stacey.S

Olga

Susan Kennedy

Memories crafter

Congratulations to all the featured artists, everyone's work absolutely rocked.

Make sure to proudly display your featured artists badges on your blogs.

I'm having a giveaway at Imagine Create Express

I'm back to blogging and loving every minute of it. I am celebrating by having a giveaway, I will be giving away two $50 vouchers to a crafting on-line shop of your choice. The giveaway will run from 21.10.2015 to 30.11.2015 and the two winners will be chosen by random.org and announced on 02.12.2015.

All you have to do 

1.Become a follower on this blog

2.Post the giveaway badge on your blog

3.Share your creations here at Just keep on creating and become a follower at IMAGINE CREATE EXPRESS as well.

This link-up blog is in the need of a little love so I hope you will all share your amazing creations here from now on.

Please leave a comment HERE to advise you have done all the above good luck everyone.

Shake off your problems

A  man's favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can't pull it out no matter how hard he tries; He therefore decides to bury it alive.

Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it; More soil is poured.

It shakes it off and steps up; The more the load was poured, the higher it rose; By noon, the donkey was grazing in green pastures.

After much shaking off (of problems) And stepping up (learning from them), One will graze in GREEN PASTURES.

Half way reminder

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much to all you have shared their work so far in the November 2015 Anything-goes link-up. It's great to see the variety of work being shared by JKOC's loyal participants and also some new faces as well. You have until the end of November to get your entries in so keep em' coming :) and don't forget to enter my giveaway which is going on till the end of November.

On a much more serious note today we have all been shocked by the devistating news in France. Lets keep the people of Paris in our prayers and may we all find a way to create peace and hope in our lives no matter what happens.

November 2015 Anything goes link-up

It's time for the November  link-up at Just Keep on creating, I hope all of you lovely people will continue to share your creations and I look forward to seeing new participants share their work in the November link-up.-up as well. Just remember you can post any of your creations, even ones you have made prior to this link-up being posted. I look forward to seeing what everyone will be submitting this month.

-You can share your creations from your blog or any public gallery such as flickr, instagram or facebook. If any  problems in submitting your work just email me. The link to email me is on the right sidebar. Please note when sharing your projects from instagram or facebook please provide a direct link to a handmade project and not your whole instagram or facebook account.

-I will be picking a group of featured artists by 01.12.2015, the featured artists will get a badge to display on their blogs.

-It would be greatly appreciated if you upload the Just keep on creating badge on your blog. Since I run this blog myself I need your help in spreading the word about the monthly link-up. If submitting from instagram please re-post the Just keep on creating picture that is on my instagram account.

-Please visit each other and leave some encouraging words about each others awesome creations.

The November Anything goes link-up is being sponsored by digitstamps4joy who is very kindly donating $10 worth of digis. This prize will be drawn randomly.

Since 2010, Digistamps4Joy (or DS4J) www.digistamps4joy.co.za/eshop - a unique South African online digistamp store – has been providing you with fabulous digistamps that are cute, whimsical, artistic, sometimes serious, and often humorous. The store has verified PAYPAL facilities for our international clients, as well as PAYFAST and EFT for our South African customers. 

You are welcome to enter our monthly card challenges on our Blog at http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com and of course “like” our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/DS4Joy where you will receive regular updates on our activities.

Good luck with this challenge we are sponsoring!

Margy

1. You can enter as many times as you want, the more entries the better. You can share creations  made before or after the start date of the link-up but please make sure you only share a creation once. 
2. You can combine any amount of challenges with your entry.
3. Please link back to this blog post and mention that you are entering this link-up in your post.
4. Please provide a direct link to your project and not your general blog, this makes it a lot easier for me to comment.Please note when sharing your projects from instagram or facebook please provide a direct link to a handmade project and not your whole instagram or facebook account.
5. Please become a follower if you want to be picked as a featured artist or go into the draw for the random prize offered. Exceptions will be made for participants who aren't able to become followers ie people  submitting from facebook or intsagram. I would really appreciate it though if you re-post the Anything goes link-up picture that is on my instagram page and become a follower on my instagram page.

Challenge stays open till 31st November 2015. 

Random winner and featured artists for October

A huge thank you to everyone who shared their beautiful creations in the October link-up. It's so good to see all of you still blogging and creating for all this time that I have been away, I find this truly inspiring. I would especially like to thank Desire Fourie, Gail Scott and Angela Westland for all the behind the scenes support and advise to get things started again at JKOC. I would also like to welcome the new participants for sharing their creations and hope to see more of your work in the November Anything goes link-up

RANDOM PRIZE WINNER

Without further a do the random prize winner as chosen by RANDOM.ORG is 

Angela Westland.1

who has won the prize pictured

Congratulations Angela 
PRIZE CLAIMED

FEATURED ARTISTS

Desire Fourie

Annette Stapylton

Kaijan-arkea

Yvonne, The ballerina

Angela Westland

KT Fit Kitty

Katrina Bufton

Bethie J

Gail Scott

Jasleen

Karen C

Susan Kennedy

Congratulations to all the featured artists, great to see such a variety of work being shared. Make sure to proudly display your featured artists badges on your blogs.

Everyone has a story in life

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…

“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”

Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed…

“Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”

The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…

“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?”The old man smiled and said…“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.

Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you.

October 2015 Anything goes link-up

It's time for my first  link-up at Just Keep on creating for over a year and I am so so excited about being here again. I would normally post this on the 1st of the month but this time round I am starting the link up today. The October link-up is going to be for a shorter period of time than the normal monthly link-up. Just remember you can post any of your creations, even ones you have made prior to this link-up being posted. I look forward to seeing what everyone will be submitting this month.

-You can share your creations from your blog or any public gallery such as flickr, instagram or facebook. If any  problems in submitting your work just email me. The link to email me is on the right sidebar. Please note when sharing your projects from instagram or facebook please provide a direct link to a handmade project and not your whole instagram or facebook account.

-I will be picking a group of featured artists by 01.11.2015, the featured artists will get a badge to display on their blogs.

-It would be greatly appreciated if you upload the Just keep on creating badge on your blog. Since I run this blog myself I need your help in spreading the word about the monthly link-up. If submitting from instagram please re-post the Just keep on creating picture that is on my instagram account.

-Please visit each other and leave some encouraging words about each others awesome creations.

One random winner will win this prize

The winner will be announced on 01.11.2015

and if you enter my giveaway at Imagine Create Express you will have the chance of winning one of two $50 vouchers to your favourite crafting shop.

1. You can enter as many times as you want, the more entries the better. You can share creations  made before or after the start date of the link-up but please make sure you only share a creation once. 
2. You can combine any amount of challenges with your entry.
3. Please link back to this blog post and mention that you are entering this link-up in your post.
4. Please provide a direct link to your project and not your general blog, this makes it a lot easier for me to comment.Please note when sharing your projects from instagram or facebook please provide a direct link to a handmade project and not your whole instagram or facebook account.
5. Please become a follower if you want to be picked as a featured artist or go into the draw for the random prize offered. Exceptions will be made for participants who aren't able to become followers ie people  submitting from facebook or intsagram. I would really appreciate it though if you re-post the Anything goes link-up picture that is on my instagram page and become a follower on my instagram page.

Challenge stays open till 31st October 2015. 

UPDATE YOUR CREATIONS BELOW

An InLinkz Link-up