Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and Homemade Ice Cream!

 Of course I forgot to take pictures the first time I made ice cream! It was really good too. My family didn't even realize I'd switched out the sugar for Truvia and served sugarfree ice cream!

Color Street

 I thought I'd better give these a try as well, so I put them on on Sunday, July, 18th. 

These are a nail strip, but they are polish, and already dry, so there's no dry time.

They are really easy to put on. They wanted to get a little bent out of shape after they were removed from the backing, but if you leave them on the tab instead of tearing it off, they are easier to handle. They went on easily and well, and were easy to peel.

Some of them fit well, and some of them were too small to go to the edges of my nails, but the next size up was way too big. 

Here's what they looked like that day, and I will update as I wear them, to see how long and how well they wear.

This didn’t cover the nail edge when I did the filing, so on the second I pulled it over the edge more and it seemed to work a little better.

One of the strips did tear during the peel so I trimmed it the best I could and kept going. Right middle finger, so we will see if that has any effect on how long it stays.

I will tell you I don't think these are holding up as well as the last nail strips. They are cracking, and have some chips. It's Friday, July 23, and I took some photos to show the wear and tear.

I decided to take them off on July 26th because they were cracked and peeling and just didn't look very good anymore. Taking them off has been an entire exercise in patience. They come off one layer at a time, with a lot of scrubbing...first the color came off, then, eventually, the rest of it. 

I thought "There has to be an easier way than this", and so I searched removing Color Street. I found this YouTube video, and it did work pretty well. I used a snack baggie and a bowl of warm water instead of what she's got, but it worked just fine with my generic, store brand nail polish remover. I did take one cotton round and clean up the sparklies and last bits, but over all it did a pretty good job and was a much simpler process with a lot less scrubbing. 

I still have bits and pieces on my nails. I wanted to put on something else right away, but I have scrubbed and scrubbed, and short of filing off the top surface of my nails, I don't know how to get the rest off my nails! Plus my fingers are covered in glitter. These are much more difficult to remove than the last nail strips I tried.

Another video suggested using a gauze pad. I didn't try it, but it does make sense because it would be "scrubbier" than a regular cotton round.

Dusty Rhoads Nail Strips

 Applied 7/8/2021

A friend of mine recently started selling these. She's a rancher, and she has pictures of wearing them through activities that normal nails strips or polish would definitely not survive, so I thought it was definitely worth a shot. 

I got advice, because I was having some trouble peeling the backing off the strips. She said to soak them in hot water (while still sealed in the package so the strips don't get wet), so I put them into a ziploc baggie since I'd already opened the package and put them in hot water. It made it easier, and most of them didn't give me any trouble after that, but I did have a couple of really stubborn ones that I had a very hard time with separating the paper strip from the nail.

As far as putting them on, easy peasy. I smoothed them down, tucked in the sides, folded over the edges, and filed them as the directions say. 

I filed, buffed, and cleaned my fingernails first, then used the alcohol strip included in the package before applying the strips. There is also a small file included, which helps file the edges after you fold the strip over the top of the nail.

I bought a few varieties, God's' Country, United We Stand, Blessed Assurance, and of course, Laramie. I chose to try Laramie for my first use, mostly because the others all have graphics that aren't going to show up as well on shorter nails, and would end up getting cut off.

Here they are after about a week. Still looking pretty good!

This was just before I took them off, on Sunday the 18th of July, so I would say they did pretty well. For me anyway.  I have a terrible time keeping polish or polish strips in place, and these held up well.

I put my second set on Monday, July 26, and they look good. The only hard part is trying to peel them apart!

Pastor Paul Page October 2021

 

Continuing in James, we’re going to look at another point. The first thing we needed to do was get rid of the bad stuff, get those things out of our lives, and the second was to engraft the Word of God in our hearts and make it an active part of our lives.

James 1:20-27²⁰ For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

²¹ Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:²⁴ For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

²⁵ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.²⁶ If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

 

Another important thing about the Word of God is that we need to believe it is truth.

 John 17:17 ¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

John 14:6 ⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 16:13 ¹³ Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ¹⁶ All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:¹⁷ That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Peter 1:21 ²¹ For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

 

We have to believe it for what it says, or we can be led away by lies. The Word of God means what it says and it says what it means.

2 Peter 3:14-18 ¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.¹⁵ And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;¹⁶ As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.¹⁷ Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.¹⁸ But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

 

We also need to be doers of the Word. A doer is someone who lives the Word, who walks the walk (not just talks the talk). They match their lives to the Word of God and make it part of their lives. These people look different from the rest of the world, and that is how we can draw people to God. We need to spend time in God’s Word so we know what He wants for us.

 

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:²⁴ For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

²⁵ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

 

Psalm 1 ¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

² But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.⁴ The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Paul Brow, Haven of Rest