When I flip through the pages of my favorite magazines my mind does a lot of things. First my eyes soak in the beautiful photographs of perfectly styled homes. Next, I inspect the pictures to see what elements I have in my own home, or wish I did. Most of the time I simply resolve to…
It’s summer time and that means one thing at our house. Sibling rivalry is full blown. I am not sure I will ever understand the extent of ugliness that can spew out of their mouths towards each other and then, within minutes, they would take a bullet for one another. My sisters are much older…
I’m about to unleash the best tip on finding what your looking for. It’s so simple, yet so profound. If you’ve been here a minute you know strolling the fields at Round Top or making tracks around town to garage sales are my very favorite things to do. The biggest comment I get from people…
Coming up with a good Mother’s Day (or Father’s Day or Christmas…) gift can be daunting. What do you get for grown ups that already have everything they need? I’m convinced homemade Mother’s Day gifts are the way to go. Back to the glory days of childhood when a finger painted picture stole your mom’s heart. I…
Once a month a group of us get together for the Junk Visionaries Challenge. This month the challenge is called Bits & Pieces. It’s about putting two separate junk things together to make a one new awesome thing. My project carried a lot of meaning and after you read all the bits and pieces that…
This year (2016) I felt a strong call to step up the task of hiding God’s word in my heart. And helping my family do the same. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11 Anyone who knows me in person knows my memory is HORRIBLE!…
This month’s Junk Revision Challenge was about Valentines. I have laid low the last month and this project excited me and got me back on track and on focus for the coming year. For this Valentine’s I decided to go with a mixed metal theme and venture away from the expected pink and red. Here is…
This week we read Chapters 11-15 in our Advent book, The Greatest Gift. (affiliate link) If you are just checking in you can see the introduction, week 1, week 2, week 4 and week 5 here. Please don’t be discouraged if you haven’t read every day or have fallen a little behind. The daily readings…
This week has been full of beautiful readings from our Advent Book The Greatest Gift by Ann Voskamp. It’s not to late to join in if you haven’t already! Here is week one, three, four and five (remember the reading schedule “dates” do not necessarily correspond to the calendar dates) In this post you will find…
As with most holiday decorations I love to see them come, but I love to see them go. We put away all our Halloween décor and the mantel was left sparse and unfinished. It may be silly, but I love to decorate the mantel. It’s the one place I can easily change up each season to…
Is your coffee table overrun by fifty thousand remote controls? Seriously…all this technology comes with a price. The price of cluttering up my coffee tables and wasting countless hours searching for the right remote that always seems to go AWOL at the most inopportune times. #firstworldproblems I know it’s a minor detail, but digging a…
My mom and I were hunting for old sweaters when I came across the FREE box at a local thrift store. It was one of those moments when God spoke to me instantly. I was bothered by these items being free. That sounds so weird. You’re looking at a girl who loves free stuff more…
DIY Necktie Art As I sit and write this I am looking out over a calm, gently lapping lake. The breeze is cool and the air is filled with what seems like a hundred different songs. Its morning and the birds are busy. This peaceful setting is a gift from one of my precious friends….
Whenever I am working on a project that needs painting or has a saw involved my “workspace” is the porte-cochere between my house and our guest house. The guest house was a garage in it’s past life, before we bought our house and turned it into a retreat for company. That means we don’t have…