new business name revealed!

well, i finally decided on my new business name! thank you so much for all your votes and suggestions. i really liked all of the choices i threw at you, but here's what i went with:

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yay! i love it. a few days ago, when i decided to change the name, i was telling my husband how i really wanted something to do with fruit, but couldn't come up with anything i absolutely loved. i wanted something that would represent "bearing fruit" in some way. and i also really loved the word blossom (which was pretty obvious from my last post and all those choices that had "blossom" in it). but i just couldn't figure out how to incorporate the "blossom" and the "bearing of fruit" idea. of course, because she's amazing and beautiful, leslie came up with "blossom and vine"... without even knowing i was trying to incorporate the "bearing fruit" idea. and you know john 15:1-17, right? that's what inspired her. the entire passage is sooo good that i couldn't just give you one verse:

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, 

while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. 

No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. 

Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. 

If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; 

apart from me you can do nothing. 

If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; 

such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, 

ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.

This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, 

showing yourselves to be my disciples.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. 

Now remain in my love.

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, 

just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you 

and that your joy may be complete.

My command is this: 

Love each other as I have loved you.

Greater love has no one than this,

 that he lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends if you do what I command.

I no longer call you servants, 

because a servant does not know his master’s business. 

Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father 

I have made known to you.

You did not choose me, but I chose you 

and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. 

Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

This is my command: Love each other.

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