It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful
For the past few months I’ve been working on a post to churches who care for parsonages (parsonagi?). I have no idea if I’ll ever publish it. I have 266 posts in draft so I’m not sure what the odds are. But I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you, have you, will you ever live [...]
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I’m creating a gallery wall in our upstairs family room/homeschool room, dogs room? I started about a month ago and keep forgetting how much time it takes for a gallery wall to evolve. Because it’s still not done. A few months ago we moved the leather sofa upstairs, along with our TV. I got a [...]
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I’m embarrassed to tell you this. I finally really mopped our floors yesterday. Actually when I say “floors” I mean kitchen, and when I say “kitchen” I mean just the half where our table is. I swept the entire kitchen with a new broom, twice. Remember how I told you what I’ve been working on [...]
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Just popping in during spring break to announce the Paint Stick winners. Caroline will be emailing you soon. Happy painting! Congratulations Colette, Aimee, Rebekah & Haley!
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Who is Mavis? Chalkboard Brick Fireplace Makeover On Failing My dad is starting a new series Monday and his two e-books are free thru tomorrow. I was going to write more about how much you will want all of this and why but then I realized my baby sister already wrote more and better things [...]
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This week has been really fun getting to talk about things I usually don’t talk about online. If you missed it: My real name How we paid off $150,000 in 5 years and 6 odd tips that helped us We have a dream What I did (I wrote a book that comes out next March) [...]
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Out of all the stuff I shared this week, this is the most difficult post for me to write. I’ve started over twice. I’ve alluded to it before once or twice. I woke up (without an alarm, just became wide awake) early morning pretty much every day last year. Last February I went to the [...]
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country living It’s been ten years since we’ve house shopped. Six years since we lived in a house we weren’t renting. And now that our debt is paid off we are saving up for our next house. We love our community, the people at our church are dear to us–my husband works there part time, [...]
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This is the second post in an all about me series called Things You Might Not Know About Me. Yesterday’s post: My Real Name We finally did it. I mentioned in last year’s goal post that we hope to be debt free this year. Both my husband and I were self-employed for all of our [...]
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When I started writing online five and a half years ago, to me, the internet was a place where unibombers hung out. I certainly wasn’t going to put my name out there for all to see. Especially a name like mine, that’s so different that all the unibombers would certainly search for my address and [...]
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I've got a secret that will unlock creativity and hope for your home. Ready? Here it is:: It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. Yep. That's it. All you have to do is believe it. Read More…
