Items retiring at midnight!

Our beautiful Cathedral Luminary along with many other popular items are being retired from our catalog on New Year's Eve at midnight!  Order from me via my website at www.darlenesdesigns.willowhouse.com.  If you want our complete retired items list, message me.

Happy and Blessed New Year to you and yours!

30 Items under $5 This Week!

There are 30 items on the Weekly Deals in my Outlet that are all priced UNDER $5.00!! Order them online, and they will be delivered to your home in time for Christmas. 







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Wednesday Words

Many of us are familiar with Jeremiah 29:11,

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." 

But I think alot of us have never read the following verses or thought of what they require of us,

"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you," declares the Lord, "and will bring you back from captivity."

God doesn't just offer us unlimited prosperity and a bright future for nothing.  That would not be good for us.  That's like if we let our children have chocolate cake for breakfast.  They would love it, it would certainly be a great "plan" in their eyes.  But it would not help them grow and be strong and able to face their day in a healthy way.

That is why God puts some parameters on His promise of prosperity and hope and a bright future for us.  He has a wonderful plan for us, but He wants us to "call upon" Him first and seek Him with all our hearts.  THEN we will find Him and THEN He will bring us out of the "captivity" we are in and THEN He will be able to lead us to His perfect plan for our lives.

You may say, "I'm not in captivity like the children of Israel were."  Really?  What about your unhealthy eating habits that are keeping you from living a long healthy life?  What about that unhealthy relationship you just keep holding on to for fear no one else will be there for you?  What about that addiction that has you in its grasp?  These are all forms of captivity that God wants to free you from, if you will only seek Him.

This Christmas season, as we celebrate Jesus' birth for bringing us eternal salvation, let's celebrate the salvation He offers us daily...salvation from ourselves if we only seek HIM with all our heart.

Pig Tailz - Home

Just wanted to share this wonderfully creative designer that I just met this past weekend at our Journey shopping event.  If you want some really cute children's items, check out her site.

Pig Tailz - Home

Wednesday Words



http://www.klove.com/music/artists/matthew-west/songs/my-own-little-world-lyrics.aspx



In my own little world it hardly ever rains

I've never gone hungry, always felt safe

I got some money in my pocket, shoes on my feet
In my own little world, population: me


I try to stay awake during Sunday morning church
I throw a twenty in the plate but I never give 'til it hurts
And I turn off the news when I don't like what I see
Yeah, it's easy to do when it's population: me


What if there's a bigger picture?
What if I'm missing out?
What if there's a greater purpose?
I could be living right now
Outside my own little world


Stopped at a red light looked out my window
I saw a cardboard sign said, "help this homeless widow"
And just above that sign was the face of a human
I thought to myself, God, what have I been doing?
So I rolled down the window and I looked her in the eye
Oh, how many times have I just passed her by?
I gave her some money than I drove on through
And my own little world reached population: two


What if there's a bigger picture?
What if I'm missing out?
What if there's a greater purpose?
I could be living right now
Outside my own little world

My own little world

Father, break my heart for what breaks Yours

Give me open hands and open doors

Put Your light in my eyes and let me see

That my own little world is not about me

What if there's a bigger picture?

What if I'm missing out?

What if there's a greater purpose?

That I could be living right now

I don't want to miss what matters

I wanna be reaching out

Show me the greater purpose

So I can start living right now

Outside my own little world

My own little world

My own little world