HOMEMAKING
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Build the Best Wedding Registry : Kitchen Items
“The wisest of women builds her house” Proverbs 14:1a This is just one article in a series titled “Build the Best Wedding Registry”. Each article in the series focuses on different rooms of the house and the links to each individual article per room are linked below. This article covers the kitchen! UG. The kitchen. I made every mistake regarding the wedding registry. The kitchen was no exception. I registered for a set of white square dishes at Target. Square was my first mistake. Have you ever sipped coffee out of a square? It was not the best choice. The set was extremely modern and Asian inspired which is not…
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Now Hiring: Full Time Homemaker Job
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” Titus 2:3-5 Were you trained to love your husband and children, or to work at home? We live in a culture that trains women for everything except the family and home. This part of a woman’s life is patently ignored for the workforce. We are mostly trained to make money, shake hands,…
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The Lord Jesus Lives
Happy Resurrection weekend. There are no words to praise Jesus enough. There are no words. I was outside one day and looked up and saw the clouds in a cross and took this photo. We all need to look up more. “The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation” Psalm 18:46
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Essential Home Decor: Style with Everyday Items!
Homemakers are the manager of the home, and one of the most prominent features she manages is the decor. People think of decor as being add-ons, extras, froofy, maybe just optional. Decor is not optional. Decorating is not just a hobby. Decorating is a part of the job. Decor is already happening in your home. Everything that needs to be in the home is a decor item. Can you see it? That’s a part of your decor! Being the manager of the home means assessing these items to make them as beautiful as possible in its function. The sunrise and sunset could have been dull and the earth would still…
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3 Ways of “Vintage” Homemaking (It’s not what you think!)
No this is not the 1950s housewife cleaning routine. This is recent history of homemaking before Pinterest! When women like you and I stayed home not long ago, but long ago enough for it to be kind of old fashioned in many ways compared to today. Here are 3 ways I was “vintage” homemaking just 15 years ago! 1) Magazines. We did not have feeds of endless images to scroll through. We had magazines and we had to purchase them! It’s easy to take for granted the plentiful free stream of inspiration online today but there was a time not long ago that we accessed pretty images in hard copies…
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5 Homemaking Tips for SCENT
Pungent cat urine. Strong dog smell. Dirty socks. Musty. Tuna fish. Overwhelming synthetic fragrance. Smells that smacked me in the face as the door swung open and jolly loving people welcomed me into their homes. As I gasped for air smiling with all of my gusto. I wish that these words did not summarize some of my experiences in other people’s homes. But the smell of people’s homes can assault. And I just have to note that these people were entirely gracious and in some cases were trying their best. Which moves me to teach more on homemaking since so many women just did not receive adequate training in this…
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New to Homemaking? The Daily Routine
Commonly, new homemakers do not know what to do daily. Some may do too much exhausting themselves and their family trying to mimic the pace of the rat race thinking this is what makes them good at homemaking. Others may feel bored because they truly do not know how to fill their time, and others may actually be lazy but not even realize they are not doing enough. Aside from obvious things like dishes after a meal, being home can feel like one empty desert of time. Some people overfill this time and some people underfill this time. But the fact is, many people have never managed their home full…
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5 Things Homemakers Should Do
Our culture does not often admit others “should” do something. We like a loosey goosey take on everything. We do not want to draw hard lines but it’s sometimes at the cost of not being helpful. Go into any job and there is a job description to fulfill. The same is for homemaking. While you can homemake in a variety of ways, such as tailoring your work to the household’s preferences, you still need to meet certain needs of a household. This is not negotiable. If I were to tell a woman she can be a homemaker but not fulfill the duties of a homemaker, she would not be learning…
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The Homemaker’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
It is shocking to admit but up until my late 30s I have never had a go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe. I believe the accomplished homemaker has a solid collection of go-to recipes for certain staple items such as a delicious casserole, bread, pie, and a chocolate chip cookie. Ideally she has them memorized. This is my goal at least, and some of them I do have memorized such as this cookie recipe. But it is so important to have a collection of at least the very basic recipes that you will make again and again. I have still been on the hunt for my perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe…
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5 Ways to Become an Elegant Woman
Elegance may be found in aesthetic alone but it is also the quality of grace in attitude, speech, even the way we move. Elegance spans all earning brackets. While there is elegance unique to the very wealthy that comes with affording the most luxury, there is also elegance with little money and the right taste to pick it out at the thrift shop! I own a wonderful collection of elegant clothes that I bought second hand including this outfit here. Elegance is not a price point as much as your taste. Also it does not cost anything to stand straight, walk smoothly, be courteous and kind which all embody elegance.…