Answered Prayer in a Beautiful way.

 I'm delighted to tell you that 

 "Pippity Trimble and the Cunning Green Stranger" 

is going into print as I type. It is always a thrill to finish a book. After months of persnickety artwork, and the inevitable countless editing and hair-pulling episodes, the elements at last go to Book Layout where all is prepared for the Book Printers.

I am delighted with the final book jacket.

Here you see the front of the book, (with the mouse), the spine, the back of the book and both book flaps. 

 However, as James and I are the publishers, our expense to put out a book is quite breathtaking at times, and it often leaves us with very shallow pockets. 

  We really needed a good show to cushion the blow to our bank account and see us through until the new books arrive. Our show in Nashville over this last weekend was very important to us.

As Christians, we don't normally ask God to help us with monetary blessings, it's just not what we pray about.

But for this show, we did.... we reverently and sincerely asked God to give us a decent show, nothing outrageous, just enough to get us through the lean times.

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 So get this: My first sale,  in the first hour,  on the first day of the show,
was to one woman who purchased SEVEN birds; yes 7 birds.
I can tell you that, as beautiful as these felted birds are, they are pricey starting at $125 and going up in price according to size.

 The fact is, I rarely sell 3 0r 4 birds during an entire show....even one at a time.

Now, if you are  Christian or Jewish, you  probably know this: Seven is God's number.

So what makes this even more special is the following:

The customer had placed 8 birds before me and after I had tallied up 7 of them, her husband asked me for the total thus far. When I told him, he said to his wife, " We'd better stop there".

Thus, the 8th bird stayed with me.

  Now you may call me delusional if you wish, but I found this incident to be a very beautiful answer to prayer, not only was it SEVEN, but it was also BIRDs

  My first sale was Seven Beautiful Birds

 The woman and I talked quite a bit, and I learned that she had been a long time friend of Tasha Tudor, had worked with her for years and also, that she and her husband live in a stone house with a thatched roof! (He showed me pictures)

 Now, You don't get more Hopalong Hollow than that!

For the next 2 days, the  show went very well, and we had quite a gratifying end result.

 What more can I say?!!