We are currently renting a townhouse ... but will be moving into our own home next month. I have started pack up ... and thought I would share our "collectibles".
Our mantle is home of The Cat's Meow - wooden cutouts of historic buildings. From its website, catsmeow.com,
Welcome to the world of The Cat’s Meow® Village! Our village, proudly made in Wooster, Ohio, is full of wooden gifts and keepsakes created to represent the special places and times in our lives. Cat’s Meow keepsakes fit in the palm of your hand, and are a perfect size to display in your home or office. They set purrfectly on mantles, shelves, and ledges; or perch them on your wainscoting or molding above your windows or doorways. Casper, our black cat logo, resides on every piece we create, telling you that you have an authentic Cat's Meow!
Above is the first Cat's Meow I purchased from the Fort Meade Officers' Spouses' Club (OSC). It is Quarters No. 1 - home of the ranking flag officer. Note Casper in the upper left window!
Over the years, I found Cat's Meow at Betsy Ross' house in Philadelphia,
on the steps to the Capital Building,
and visiting the White House.
Casper also stopped by the Maryland Armory. What do you collect from your travels? One randomly selected commenter from this week's blogs wins a book choice from my convention stash. Comments are open through Saturday, July 11, 10 pm in Baltimore. I'll post the winner on Sunday, July 12, at SOS Aloha.
Mahalo,
Kim in Baltimore
Aloha Spirit in Charm City
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Snow globes, oh, I enjoy them so much. I have a favorite, it is a Norman Rockwell,
ReplyDeleteSanta globe, it is beautiful.
I do know that building. I collect rubber ducks and beanies from Hard Rock Cafe.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I would collect shot glasses, now I collect magnets :)
ReplyDeleteI collect everything from postcards, stamps and keychains.
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ReplyDeleteI'm sorry it's been so long since I've visited but my computer is finally working again!
I loved your collectibles! My favorite thing to look for when traveling is coffee cups! Fortunately in our new home in South Carolina I now have room to store them all!
I collect Christmas ornaments. I used to get key chains for my daughter - she had over 200 when she decided she didn't want them anymore, so I gifted them to the son of an author friend.
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I've got a couple of those house cutouts from houses in Charleston SC. I've collected a few things while traveling - recipe books and framed prints - one of my favorites is from Venice.
ReplyDeleteTHE ELECTED! BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteCan those elected by God resist that calling?
ELECT-ELECTED-ELECTION: Defined (Adjective, signifies picked out, chosen.) (Noun, denotes a picking out, selection, then, that which is chosen).
Elected means chosen. There is a view held by many that when God elects or chooses people that they cannot resist God's calling. Israel was God's elect or chosen people. God did not just select certain Jews to be saved and other Jews to be lost. Salvation was offered to the whole nation of Israel.
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the people who are on the face of the earth.
The Jews were God's elect. Did any of them ever reject that election? Yes they did; because they had free-will.
1 Samuel 8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.
They rejected God as king.
Numbers 14:11 The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?
These people were the elect of God, but they would not believe in Him. Even though they were God's elect He did not force them to believe and obey Him. THEY HAD FREE-WILL.
Acts 7:51 "You men who are stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
Israel was God's chosen people; they were His elect, however, they always resisted the Holy Spirit. Most of them rejected Jesus as the Christ. THEY HAD FREE-WILL.
Does God arbitrarily condemn some men to hell and elect a chosen few for salvation? NO, HE DOES NOT!
WHO ARE THE ELECT OF GOD TODAY?
Acts 10:34-43 Opening his mouth, Peter said: "I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, 35 but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him. 36......Jesus Christ....43 Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness from sins.
WHO ARE THE ELECT OF GOD TODAY? All who believe in Jesus Christ. Yes, everyone has the chance to become the elect, the chosen of God.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
WHO ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE? WHO ARE GOD'S ELECT? EVERY JEW AND EVERY GENTILE WHO MEETS GOD'S TERMS FOR PARDON UNDER THE NEW COVENANT ARE THE ELECT OF GOD. THEY ARE ALL GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
GOD HAS OFFERED SALVATION TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS THE CHRIST.
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