u/verklas

I made a sticker sheet and sent it to friends and family and this is how I used mine in my Bible 🥰

Hello, this is a showcase of month 2 of my practice christian snail mail club that I designed for a handful of my friends and family (they've already received it). I'm disabled waiting for wrist surgery and I can't do much so this is just for fun.

I love designing things so if you like Christian art, I'll share tutorials and stuff in the future on my YouTube.

I used IbisPaintX to draw the sticker sheet & art. I used Canva to help me layout the Bingo Card and Cricut to cut everything. I write a poem each month to go with the theme. (I definitely ask the Holy Spirit to help me lol)

This month's theme was Dining With Jesus 🍴📚❤️🕊 Every month has a theme song but I can't share this month's yet because it's a QR code hidden in the bingo game and not everybody has found it yet 😁🐌💌

5g of toothpaste

My neighbor's daughter found this at the local free clothing pantry. She said it looked like me and gave it to me because I like stationery. She's so sweet lol

I found a picture on Pinterest and loosely based it on that. I put a sketchbook underneath so it wouldn't bleed through to the first chapter of Matthew while writing and coloring. I think I'll add more decorations one day but it's a cute start.

My first time trying ground bison! It's good and it tastes like sweet ground beef. I added beef tallow/salt and a couple of buttered marbled fried eggs.

I don't have good air fryer instructions except I threw in about 2 (or 3? didn't measure) Tbsp beef tallow, set it to 400° F air fry and kept stirring it up about every 3 minutes. It took something like around 15 minutes.

This is what a bad flare up day looks like. Inflammation on the knuckle/bone spurs. My thumb joint is dislocated/lodged against my palm. Right wrist partially collapsed and left wrist fully collapsed.

I went misdiagnosed until April of this year and during the last 2-3 years had rapid degradation. It happened so fast that I've mentally had a difficult time processing and slowing down using them which caused more damage.

It's hard coming to terms with having limitations. They suspect that I had undiagnosed JIA. I was misdiagnosed with minor tendinitis at 21. Then osteoarthritis at 35. I'm now 37. Seronegative is the type that can't be detected from the markers they have available to test with. I tested negative for lupus. Both of my grandmothers had rheumatoid.

Waiting for surgery and SSI approval has been a long process that's still ongoing. Sure, I had stiffness and pain in my hands starting as a teen but I still didn't see this coming. I know God has a purpose and a plan but it still kind of sucks lol. 🫠

I've been enjoying "The Well Watered Woman" by Gretchen Saffles recently and while reading today, I was inspired to make a short commentary about 1) anxiety 2) some of my experiences with the gift of discernment of spirits and 3) encouragement for when we feel weak.

I also wrote a corresponding Substack article. The info is in my bio and I don't use AI or ChatGpt at all. I'm not promoting anything for sale, just reaching out to share some Christian literary love. If you also like reading Christian books and discussing them, feel free to join me on my YouTube or Substack because my channel will have topics like these as it grows (currently very small). I also love creating stationery and I like sharing the art process behind that too. 📚🌱❤️🕊

Has anybody else experienced this? I cooked this grassfed sirloin a couple days ago and was immediately repulsed. I checked the date and it wasn't expired. It tasted like straight up grass so bad that I gagged and the taste lingered for so long. I haven't experienced this with any other of my beef that's not grassfed.

I kept trying to eat it but I couldn't get over the taste. I smelled it and gagged again. Then I felt bad but had to toss it. I was so confused until I remembered a video that I watched a few weeks ago when a woman was saying her children cannot eat grassfed ground beef because the taste was so heavy/grassy.

I had 1 cup black coffee at 7 am, water throughout the day then omad dinner from 4:30-6:30. I was ravenous so just a picture of Cronometer stats.

I went way over my carb goals but am super happy with the fat/protein/cals. 1 month of practicing high fat carnivore on some days with ketovore on others - not fat adapted yet. The mango got me today 😂

I want to take control of my days with the freedom that omad gives because I have grown weary of continual food obsession throughout the day. I have 30 lbs to lose but that's secondary.

I'm at 75% carnivore (one month in) so not fully strict but doing pretty well. I may stay at this level but I'm pleased with the progress so far and not stressing about it at the moment. This sub has really helped me learn a lot so I appreciate you all.

These are the price highlights from my shopping trip this past week 🥹❤️ This same jar of ghee alone is about $25 on Amazon!!

Edit: Maybe some of you would be more at peace in a vegan sub. This is a grocery haul sub which includes meat, vegetables, fruit and so forth. My food choices are pleasing to me and my body is not yours so my choices have no effect on your life. The level of hatred is atrocious but I do appreciate the chance to speak about Jesus. Thank you. Here are the prices of my grocery haul, which I am so very blessed to have:

Meat:

$31.27 ~ 3 Lb beef stew meat

$23.97 ~ 3 Lb ground wagyu

$23.96 ~ 4 x 10 oz ribeye steak

$13.99 ~ 1 Lb ground bison

$11.97 ~ 3 x 12 oz hickory bacon

$6.99 ~ 10 oz coho salmon

$6.99 ~ 10 oz atlantic salmon

$6.39 ~ 0.70 oz Lb boneless ribeye

$4.99 ~ 8 oz top sirloin steak

$3.99 ~ 12 oz applewood bacon

Dairy/Eggs/Frozen:

$23.98 ~ 4 Lb amish roll butter

$15.98 ~ 1 Lb pasture/grassfed ghee

$15.56 ~ 4 x 32 oz strawberry kefir

$7.89 ~ 3 Lb frozen blueberries

$4.99 ~ 5 dozen eggs

$4.49 ~ 32 oz greek yogurt

$4.49 ~ ben/jerry's cherry garcia icecream

$3.49 ~ 9 oz (12 sticks) colby jack cheese

$1.38 ~ 2 x individual snack cheese

Condiments/Pantry:

$11.98 ~ 6 x 32 oz beef broth

$9.98 ~ 8 oz instant coffee

$8.99 ~ 32 oz honey

$7.99 ~ 4 oz pure vanilla extract

$4.99 ~ 14 oz grassfed + finished beef tallow

$4.98 ~ 2 x 32 oz chicken broth

$4.79 ~ 32 oz lemon juice

$2.79 ~ 24 oz dill pickle spears

$1.49 ~ 12 oz dijon mustard

Total: $274.17

Produce received for free through SNAP rewards program:

$25.00 ~ 10 large avocados

$11.96 ~ 14 small avocados (bagged)

$6.76 ~ 3 bunches of bananas

$6.00 ~ 4 large mangos

Total: $49.72

I have a handful of friends and family participating in my practice snail mail club and this was the first month that they received 🥰

One day, I'd like to do this officially but it will be a long time because I've been waiting on a wrist fusion surgery plus more hand/wrist surgeries after that.

It's just something small and cute to do with my time since I'm unable to work due to the severity of my conditions. The Cricut machine really helps! I also like to make other art as I'm able ❤️

From the lyrics of Forrest Frank, "Life gave me some Lemons but my Jesus ~ He be makin' lemonade" 🍋🎶

Brushes I used on IbisPaintX = Coarse pencil, Ballpoint pen + Glitter 1

Process: I drew the lemon background/flowers/lemonade cup on IbisPaintX then incorporated a couple Canva elements in as mixed media with my art. My sticker sheets are printing lighter than I'd like but it still came out decent.

Not for sale, just for fun. ❤️

A Tiny Spark is a Christian women's snail mail club I found on YouTube. This is what I got in June. Two letters, a prayer prompt, some stickers, a recipe and a print. ❤️