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? Being Broken Together
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
Wired Photo Frame for Wedding or Anniversary
Today is my anniversary. 27 years of wedded bliss. Maybe not always bliss, but my DIY hubby never fails to make me laugh. Even when I don’t want to. For our Valentine’s Day anniversary I made him this wired photo frame. And he painted our bedroom. Win-win. Okay, maybe I’ll throw a pizza in the oven, too. It’s rather… Read More
Valentine’s Day Tablescape
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
Snickers Brownie Ice Cream Cake
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
Valentine’s Day Love Story
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