Author: Allie Zottola

Five Things Making Me Smile Lately

1. Garage nights with Jimmy. We’ve both been working on some projects a few nights a week in our garage and I so cherish that time we spend together painting, sanding, sawing, and creating. I’ll share what we’ve been working on soon! Completing projects together reminds me of the time right before we got married, when Jimmy helped me make a shoe shine box for my dad. Good memories 🙂

Working in garage

2. Indy. My sister’s puppy, Indy is so sweet. Hannah, Indy, and I spent the day together this past week and it was such a sweet day of laughter, pet sitting, and catching up. Hannah and I filmed a vlog that day, too, if anyone wants to see Indy in action! He got along so well with Lola and the dogs I pet sat. He’s a good boy 🙂

Golden Retriever Puppy

3. Baking Projects. I’m on to my next baking project! I’m making Princess Leia cupcakes for Leia’s first birthday party! I can’t believe she’s going to be a year old already. Time flies when you’re having fun 🙂

Princess Leia Cupcake

4. Gardening. Jimmy and I both agreed that our zucchini is the biggest it has ever been before. I think it’s from all the rain we’ve been getting here in Pittsburgh this summer. It’s kind of hard to tell in the picture, but the zucchini plant is up to my waist! Crazy, but we are loving it. Something else we’re loving? The landscaping fabric we put down in the garden this year. We have done zero hours of weeding and it is glorious!

Garden with zucchini

5. Pet sitting. I think I’ve mentioned pet sitting in every one of my posts for the past couple of years, ha. Business is busy and fun and challenging. When I was a child, it was my biggest and wildest dream to be able to work with animals one day. Now, I’m with animals all day, every day. I know a lot of people probably think it’s silly that I’m pretty much living out my career dream by pet sitting, but that’s just who God made me to be 🙂

Dog walking

What has been making you smile lately?

Faith-Based Book Roundup

I’m sharing a roundup of my top five most favorite faith-based books. I split them into two categories (fiction and nonfiction) because it was too hard to choose just five in general 😉

Nonfiction
1. The Holy Bible
2. Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption – Katie J. Davis
3. Made to Crave for Young Women: Satisfying Your Deepest Desires with God – Lysa TerKeurst and Shaunti Feldhahn
4. Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World – Craig Groeschel
5. Mended: Pieces of a Life Made Whole – Angie Smith

nonfiction faith-based books

Fiction
1. Redeeming Love – Francine Rivers
2. The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
3. The Prayer Box – Lisa Wingate
4. Like Dandelion Dust – Karen Kingsbury
5. Shades of Blue – Karen Kingsbury

Faith based fiction

Have you read any of these books?

What are your favorite faith-based books?