Living as a Victorious Christian Woman

Continuing with our tradition of monthly fudge recipes for the year, let's bring out the oranges and get a little tropical! This beautiful swirled fudge gets a kick with orange extract and spicy gumdrops for garnish. Think orange creamsicle, but way better. You'll be able to cut 36 pieces from one 8x8 pan of fudge, and each piece gets half a gumdrop. The flavor combination is out of this world, and the swirls make it look so sophisticated. This is the perfect summer treat, it only needs six ingredients, and it's so simple to put together. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 12-oz bag white baking chips 2 Tbsp butter, sliced 1 16-oz can vanilla frosting 2 tsp orange extract Orange gel food coloring 18 gumdrops (9 orange and 9 white) 1. Line an 8x8-inch baking dish with parchment paper. 2. Combine white baking chips and sliced butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat in the microwave at 30-second intervals, stirring until combined and smooth. 3. Remove the lid and liner from the frosting. Hea...

It's totally ok to have a favorite washi tape, right? People of all different kinds of crafts have their favorite mediums, tools, and color pallets, so I can have a washi that I love more than anything. It's that metallic paper clip washi at the top and bottom of this week's planner layout. It's shiny and random and perfect and I love it. That's why it's the anchor design for this spread all about ... planning! The other washi tapes are from the same collection as the paper clips, so they're the perfect color combination. And there in my planner sticker pile was a set of office-themed stickers in the same pallet, so they are all combined on these pages. I laid them out in a right-to-left line down the page, then offset the upper left and bottom right corners with two more clusters of phrases and images. The result is colorful, balanced layout across both pages. My prayer for this week is that my heart and mind will be as colorful and balanced as this calenda...

Whether they're nine years old or 14 months old, dogs all have different levels of patience. (But open a chip bag, and all bets are off...) Our Diesel dog has the patience of Job. He will stay by our side no matter how long the wait might be, regardless of what we're actually waiting for. He's just steady like that. The tiny dog, on the other hand, has the attention span of a flea. Cooper is just over a year old - still a puppy - and wants to know absolutely everything about everything. He's still working on his sit-stay commands, and he'd much rather have whatever his brother has than what is right in front of him. With one exception. We go out to open Danny's garage door when he texts that he's on his way, and the boys know exactly what that means: door up ... Daddy home. And then we wait. They will stand here for what seems like hours but is only a few minutes, looking down the driveway, waiting for him to turn the corner through the trees.  And when he d...

Beautiful new month, beautiful new planner pages! I absolutely love the greens of summer, and I can't think of a better way to capture them than on my calendar. These August pages are ones go back to all month long, so they'll capture the summer season for 31 whole days! The random-stamp pattern of this layout took an entire page of stickers from one summer set - I think I picked it up at Walmart on clearance. This page is phenomenal because each leaf and branch is a different shade of green, and they all go together to make a lovely forest on paper. This kind of thinking may sound silly, but it can help you turn a blank piece of paper into a tiny work of art. The monthly layouts are the pages I use to keep track of my blog posts, so having enough space to write a few words is plenty. That's why the random-stamp effect works so well - I can use a ton of smaller images and phrases, and in this case make it look like growing and thriving trees. What can you use to personalize...