Today I want to show you how to make a simple but powerful decor statement in your home: a vintage book bundle. I got this idea from Pottery Barn, whose magazines I can hardly look at unless I've spent adequate time with Jesus. My "wanter" starts wanting too much; but if I indulge healthily, I can appreciate the pristine beauty and creative genius that is Pottery Barn's decor. Hidden in the backgrounds on some of their magazine's pages are vintage book bundles. I don't know if it's because I like reading, but whenever my eye comes across a bundle of cover-less books bound together in rope or twine, my heart starts racing. Pottery Barn no longer sells the bundles--if they ever did. But I see them now and again in their ads and I still love them. I've also seen these naked books for sale on other websites, and they cost a little bit more than I'm willing to pay. Before I take you through how I created my own version, let me first preface this by saying that I am no craft wizard. I … [Read more...]
Three Home Decor Sites to Ignite Your Creativity
My home decorating goes in waves. Sometimes that's where our creative budget goes, other times, it goes towards building the miniature wardrobes of constantly growing children, or putting in some landscaping. It's on the budget every month in its own little wonderful category, but it usually is one of those flexible categories that helps booster up another where I've gone a little bid overboard for the time. Recently, I've found a few websites that have inspiration enough to browse through when I have the time. Some of them have apps available, and it's fun to scroll through items when nothing else is going on. As with all things material, it gets addictive, so I have to be purposeful in it, or else I will spend all of time consumed with it. Like social media, I take my cues from how my spirit feels. Is this feeding or starving my spirit? Lots of times it starves it, and I find myself a depleted mess of jealousies and comparisons at the end of a long couch-break. Oh that I would … [Read more...]
Summer Decor Ideas: Bringing The Outside In
When we moved to Indiana, I was a full blown, summer-loving, sun-adoring Texan. I visited my husband's family while we dated, but only during the summer months where the midwest is green and vibrant, pulsing with life and humidity and gloriously supple trees. To say I felt a little bit tricked when the first piercingly colds days of November hit is an understatement; I was devastated. I can remember how many people told me to embrace the seasons, and how lovely it was to have winter because it made spring that much more enjoyable. I still don't agree with that statement, but I now understand how useful it is in coping with the winter. Summer Decor Ideas: Bringing The Outside In I have found that in my home, it helps for me to celebrate seasons by doing what my husband and I call, "bringing the outside in". It helps me truly appreciate what November represents, when I can strategically place pumpkins throughout my house and hang a few ears of dried Indian corn in old window frames on … [Read more...]
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