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Non-dramatic Bathroom Makeover : Making it Beautiful without the Renovation
You transform a room by the little things you do too… Ladies, I love a dramatic before and after makeover. But in our world of attention-grabbing headlines and impressive home overhauls we have lost a lesson of utmost value. A makeover is not just an extreme change. Many times, transformative makeovers are the little things that you do to make a room feel inviting, clean, comfortable and beautiful. Homemaking means making it better right now! It would be easy to feel discouraged enough to not make a room better because it will not live up to a grand change. We can get caught up in what it could be instead…
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Better Homemaking & Happy Homemaker : Make the Bed
Homemaking is as Simple as Making the Bed Ladies, homemaking does not consist of overwhelming tasks that are impossible to figure out or get better at! It is actually quite simple. As simple as making the bed. Homemaking Creates Order & Beauty Look around you. You can make your home as lovely as you want. That enthusiasm and joy of “playing house” we had as little girls is what makes doing something like making the bed different than a demand that merely taxes you. You have an opportunity in this simple and quick task to direct your home into order and beauty. This is what homemaking does! It is often…
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The Best Food Waste Perspective : Christian Homemaking
Stop Kicking Yourself for “Wasting food” Instead Praise God for His Abundance! We are pretty good at beating ourselves up as women. I once heard a pastor joke that his wife’s spiritual gift was guilt. Haha! Well, that is certainly true for me every time I scrape food into the trash. That is the worst feeling. But thanks to God I had a change of perspective on this. Romans 12:2 says “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.” I…
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Cheerful French Blue Kitchen Makeover : Paint Before & After
Welcome to my kitchen! My rental house kitchen was trying to be a cheerful, what I call “French blue” kitchen but the dusty grey blue paint color was holding it hostage from its goal! Even though the South facing kitchen has airy daylight pouring into it, the sleepy grey toned blue still looked tired. It wanted to be awake and happy in that beautiful light. I was working with a tight budget so I bought Glidden interior paint + primer in the color “Sonata”. One gallon was $23 plus change and since the walls were already blue, it only took one generous coat of paint to look opaque. The room…
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In the Garden : Seasons of life depicted by the Rose
The garden. Where life began and where Jesus prayed before He went to the cross for us. If only more people spent time in the garden. If only they spent time in the dirt, in the hardship of growing food and in the beauty of the flowers blooms. There are thorns but there are roses too. The droplets of water on their petals captivate my soul in worship of God of heaven and earth, who designed such glory in such small things. A droplet of water on a petal. A mere drop of water so magnificent. The water’s dome a structure of excellence, the view through it a magnification of…
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My Classy & Feminine Style Makeover : Before & After
It’s easy to upscale daily style! Ladies, I write a lot of articles encouraging us to upscale our daily style because our current culture is so lax, to the point of championing slobbish habits. It feels refreshing to be put together! It is even polite to be put together! It even changes the tone of a home to be put together! No, the outside is not everything but it is something! It does have an effect on us and others and it does convey a message. What are you conveying? There were years of my life that I dressed almost exclusively in leggings with spandex tops, or skinny jeans with…
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How to have Resolve in Homemaking : Have a Mind for the Work!
There are so many things to say about how to be a better homemaker. There are practical steps to improving your approach but first, our resolve to do the work comes from unwavering truth from God’s Word. I had been slogging away at painting over the bright pink room in our new rental house recently. There was nothing enjoyable about this work. It just had to be done even though I truly dislike painting. But I was encouraged by this passage in Nehemiah and I am passing it on to you for your fortification in homemaking work. It was a time when they had experienced a lot of discouragement in…
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This Question Will Change the Way You Dress
Would you buy this right now? This is the one question that will change whether you think what you wear is good quality, stylish, or even flattering on you. When you go to reach for that top and those pants again, as your day after day uniform, hold up those items and look at the state of them. Ask yourself if you were at a shop and saw those items right now, would you reach out and pull them from the rack to admire them? Would they catch your eye? Would you pay money to purchase them right now? Would you even think they looked good? Are there loose seams…
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Cold Weather Wardrobe : SWEATERS Identify Quality Fabric & Proper Laundering
This is an acrylic sweater that I purchased on Amazon around $40! This is one of my favorite cozy and put together looks for cold weather. A beautiful cable knit sweater, long enough to wear with fleece lined leggings, fitted enough to move with me as I work and not bag off getting caught on things or dipping into dish water or poo! We wear our clothes for real life ladies so they need to work with us and for us! It is helpful to know about fabrics to choose the ones that work the best and also to know how to care for them. Everything needs the proper care…
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Fall Fashion Country Woman Edition : Shop & Dress like Us
Welcome to my little stylish corner of the countryside. The tractor supply clothing section does not exactly make me feel like a stylish woman. There is zero snazzy shopping experience to it and yet, I feel so much more comfortable there than any other retail store. I want to smell hay and kibble while I shop for my clothes. And I want to hear adorable peeping chicks, not top 40 blaring. On one of my excursions, I found these leggings. They have deep pockets with invisible zippers. Hefty fabric. Stretchy. Doesn’t show crack when you bend down. These are the things country women need. These are the things ANY women…
