The 5th annual Performathon

Hey, everyone – it’s Phil this time.

Last weekend we as the studio did our 5^th annual Performathon. (Performance + Marathon.) It’s a fundraising benefit for the Bluffton & Pandora Campus Life/Youth for Christ. Krysti went through this program as she was going through high school, so as a means of thanks and supporting the ministry, we have the students raise funds for them.

 

It’s also our summer “recital” of sorts, but much more laid back and easygoing. Normally for a recital, we would make up a program with students’ name, order and piece(s) performed; for this, the students give a time block of when they’ll be there, and we work up a few pieces for them to perform. However, it’s not so much a recital in that the students are not the focus. We like it to feel more like they’re providing background entertainment, so the families can chat with each other, have breakfast or lunch by Hannah and David – he almost set himself on fire again. (I kinda wanted to see it this time. But I at least checked his eyebrows and they were still intact.)

Every year, we have set a goal and the Lord has amazingly provided, then we’ve upped the ante every successive year. This year we went with $4,500 for our goal. We didn’t quite reach that this year, but we did help raise $3,684.50!  We hope it was a blessing for YFC.

 

Here's a picture of me and one of my students who's just started this summer. He did very well at improvising with me for everyone!

This one's for the girls

As many of you know we have gotten to know a few of our neighbors pretty well. I have been getting to know Kaylah since last summer. She had some questions about God but most of the time I just try to listen to her.  This is her friend Darian and these two are seriously joined at the hip right now. This picture is the girls at Lakeside!! They went with the "melting pot" group.

It seemed like they had an AMAZING week. It seemed like it was a good week for them to experience God, make new GOOD friends, etc. Wednesday night of that week they both accepted Christ!

Then was Bible school week. They were both mad at me the whole week for who knows why and a combination of things/me telling them what to do.  Then the following week, we made cookies.

You can see how she is TRYING not to smile here. It was their first time making cookies from scratch. Well then they were over here for like HOURS. So I guess they're not mad at me any more. Then the next day I did their hair.

And then a couple days later more hair-do-ing

A lot of the time they ask if they can come over here. If we don't have anything pressing we try to make time for them. I see SO MUCH potential in these girls. They both have been through so much...anything imaginable that could go wrong in someone's life... one of them has probably experienced it. I can SEE the desire in their eyes to change, to be better, etc. They have so many hurts and struggles it is definitely a process. If you will pray with me for them, the most pressing issue for them right now seems to be RELATIONSHIPS. Just figuring out what a healthy relationship looks like, whether it be with friends or a boyfriend. Figuring out that yes, they can trust me, but they can also trust other Christians to help them. I see baby steps of improvement all the time which is encouraging to me.

With the whole hair-do-ing thing I got an idea....how cool would it be if Kaylah had someone every school day telling her how beautiful she is on the INSIDE, how much she is loved by God. How cool would it be if she had someone to walk to school with and just build her up with encouragement? Hmm.

Treasure Hunting!

Whew! What a day! (Krysti here)We woke up really early, at 8am. (for those of you who know us…that really is early for us especially on a no-real-commitments kind of Friday). We rushed around and got ready and headed off to McDonalds for some breakfast, and then away we went to the west, on the garage-sale-lover’s dream voyage that happens every year, the Lincoln Highway sales!!!!! There were tons of them. We decided to bypass the sales till we were past Cairo, just because we have gone to those people’s sales in previous years.  We found this cool river 'just around the riverbend' near Gomer that we thought it would be fun to canoe in sometime. And we never would have found it if it weren’t for the sign saying

“Garage SaleS – MULTI!   --->”

There was also a totem-pole bird-watching station over there. This is close to where I found 2 of our first treasures….

So are you ready to see what we found?!?!?!??!??!?!

This was our filled car by the end of the day. We had to get creative and think positively to get everything in there. Now we’ll show ya everything….First thing…..

Because ever since going to the zoo with Phil and Cody that day I really like Peacocks! She was only 50 cents. And…..

Haha!! She is from Japan. This kitty was a real bargain at only 25 cents. How could I resist? She is SINGING to me! And plus, she’s pink. And she has some sorts of flower/bows on her. And have you ever stopped to think, “I wonder who made this poor little kitty figurine, and how much they got paid to make it, and how much they loved it, and now I am paying only 25 cents for it.” Then I start feeling guilty or sorry for them, feeling like they should be more appreciated. So, maker of the kitty-cat, I really truly like her and thank you for your time and efforts.

We continued on to Delphos. Had some yummy A & W.  They were busy. Left a studio flyer. Continued on.

We found this for the laundry room:

Which will be handy for stashing things.

 - - - - INTERLUDE - - - - - - -

We also found this awesome church

The guy who lived next to the church said it has not been in use for the past 15 years and some guy from New York bought it. I wonder why??  I love how you can see the dark clouds in this pic. They were with us all day which was fun.

Well then we got this trunk for only $10!

These are kind of “in style” now apparently. Whitney likes it best when it’s open so she can sit in it.

We’ve been searching for a while now for a storage cabinet or something for the upstairs bathroom, just to store some towels and things. The space up there is so narrow it’s been hard to find anything that will fit. We saw these drawers and Phil whipped out his measuring tape (all hard-core garage sale-ers bring this important tool with them) and it was JUST RIGHT!

We did have just a big pink tub with overflowing towels stacked up like a towel-mountain, just take our word that this is a huge improvement. Oh yeah and see the purple paint? Yep bathroom upstairs is light purple now instead of plain white.

This next piece just jumped upon us before we even realized we needed it! See our before pile of piano music downstairs in exciting crates:

And the after:

Our very own brand-new-to-us antique music cabinet! I don’t have my music actually in there yet so I’ll try to post a pic once it’s all organized. HOW COOL!!!!!  I used some birthday money I got for these furniture things.

We also got one thing for $5 that I can’t tell you about and another thing for .50 that is top secret. Oh yeah and I got some material for a little project.

I spent a while washing out the new furniture because I guess I’m a germ-a-phobe.

I'm going to try to get better at the formatting thing on here. And work on my picture-taking skills. Sorry so dark but you get the idea!

“Here we are. Hello there, world!”

“Here we are. Hello there, world!”

This is our first post. (Those were her words.) Allow us to introduce ourselves: Phil and Krysti. We were married December 19^th, 2009 after having been together for three years prior. The biggest things about us to know is that we are have both been born-again believers in Jesus Christ since we were very young and we are both professional and accomplished musicians and music teachers. Our entire lives focus around those two aspects in some way or another!

We have both blogged at some point around our early college years or so, but we together wanted to make something more. Our blog is called “The Schey Pastiche.” We found that word “pastiche” and it was essentially defined as a work of art comprised from a variety of sources. That seemed to catch our idea pretty closely! The purpose of this blog is to be a variety of things including stories, anecdotes, chronicles, ideas, adventures, projects, discoveries, updates, creations – anything and everything!

The other idea is also that this is a journey, one that never ends. We’re starting this blog after being married two and a half years, and our story continues indefinitely. Our respective families have rich histories of their own which have helped shape us into who we are. Their stories continue with us, and we are adding to the tapestry that is our family, creating new threads with exciting new adventures and stories yet-to-be discovered! So, you will share in our lives together and someday in our children’s lives, as the Lord blesses us. Who knows? Perhaps you may someday be blogged to by our children!

So what will we add to our never-ending pastiche? The tapestry never ends.