Archive for the ‘Home’ Category
It started two months ago. I asked them for a list of their favorite things and wrote on the chalkboard as they told me. I propped the chalkboard up in our living room to remind myself – it’s the little things. {Judah answered first on the above list, then Wesley and they continued going back [...]
Our new canvas print hangs above the mantel. It makes me smile each time I look at it. It isn’t a perfect picture. No one is looking at the camera. The focus isn’t tack sharp. Our clothes don’t even match. But it is us. So very us. And I love it. With our trip to Nigeria [...]
“Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.” Planning for upcoming seasons is a life saving tool for me. Last Christmas was the first season I actually sat down with pen and paper and planned out what I wanted that time to be like and what I wanted to do and [...]
After seeing what Amanda from The Hand Me Down House did with glass, modge podge and food coloring I had to try it out too. I have ideas of creating a stained glass-like window in one of the rooms in our house but am starting with smaller projects to make sure I like the look. [...]
We have been knocking out projects the last couple weeks, which accounts for a lot of my quietness in the past week. Crafting projects are fun and time consuming. We’ve done stain glass-look paintings. Tile art. The Rocking Chair. A test run for making a floor out of paper. Christmas gifts. And, perhaps my favorite – [...]
The before picture doesn’t do the horror of this rocker justice. I think it had been painted black and then orange on top of that. We found it at the neatest of yard sales in Charleston last month – the man had endless amounts of old furniture looking for a loving DIY-er. There was a [...]
