DIY projects, thrifty home decor and easy crafts
Thrifty and easy Valentines Day decor ideas will have you shopping your home, books and photographs for easy and sentimental ways to decorate your home. To me Valentines Day decor is a lot like my marriage. (You’re on the edge of your seats right about now, aren’t you?) Comfortable. Shabby but chic. Imperfectly beautiful. Neutral with pops of color. Sentimental and… Read More
What makes a good marriage? Here’s a poignant story of years of brokenness and being remade through faith in Christ. Today is my 28th wedding anniversary. 28 years. Almost three decades of living life together. Fights. Makeups. Morning breath. Childbirth. Just ordinary lives lived through extraordinary stories. I wish we had an inkling of what we were getting into when… Read More
These past few weeks I’ve felt like I was standing on the dock waving while everyone else pulled away from the harbor. I pride myself on being organized and put together. (Yes, God has been working on that little stronghold for a while now!) I love my job blogging and am so grateful for the direction I’m moving in, but… Read More
I had this wonderfully sentimental, perfect table setting post to show you all last Friday. Then the computer ate it. Buh-bye, sayonora, adieu, adios, and it was gone. I may have even cried a few tears over it. Okay, maybe a lot. I’m not telling ~smile~ But then, miracle of miracles, it came back. And then the angels sang…. Read More
This scrumptious ice cream cake begins with a boxed brownie mix and ends with caramel, chocolate and snickers! (Stay tuned for links to all the fabulous bloggers joining us in our All Things Home Valentine’s Showcase.) Every year I listen to the hype and commercialization of the first holiday of the new year. I walk through the aisles of the… Read More
I wanted to share the Valentine tablescape I created to help us celebrate our Valentine’s Day anniversary. For the centerpiece I added a picture of us at our 25th anniversary celebration. I brought a little bit of nature into the setting with some red berries, using them with a red charger, our wedding china and red and white lace napkins….. Read More
Who wouldn’t want to impress their family with chocolate dipped strawberries? Or celebrate a special occasion with a decadent treat? Don’t you want to be an expert in all things chocolate and love? These are so easy to make you can fool your loved ones into thinking you spent hours in the kitchen. Every day isn’t Valentine’s Day but you… Read More
I have many new readers (thank you so much for joining me!), and I wanted to share our personal Valentine’s Day love story here this year, reliving a spectacular, once in a lifetime celebration. It was the ultimate surprise. one year ago …… Unbeknownst to me, my family (specifically my husband, oldest daughter and niece) had been plotting for weeks… Read More
Such a lovely picture of my now almost 15-year-old daughter. The dress was a $2 bargain from Goodwill. That cute smile. Priceless. She practically wore that dress to pieces. I helped it along a little. Look at that lovely white eyelet material. And that pretty pink waistband. Did you see the pink tulle peeking out from under the hem? I… Read More