Everything Useful and Beautiful

January 17, 2014April 20, 2017

Tip #17 – Ensure EVERYTHING in your home is USED and perceived as BEAUTIFUL.

It is easy to let clutter invade our lives – things that really have no use. Things that annoy and overwhelm us, rather than appreciate them. Make every item in your home have a purpose!

Kristin’s Action Plan: As I walk through our home on a daily basis, I keep this quote in the back of my mind. If I do not know what an item is used for, I donate it. If I don’t perceive that usefulness to be beautiful, meaningful, or appreciate the item, out the door it goes.

Coloring Outside The Lines

Mazy’s got it down. Anytime I give her something to color with, she immediately starts drawing in a circle. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to her circles, but then she glances up at me as if to say, “duh mom, it’s a puppy.” I should have known. It was staring me in…

How I Create Our Family Photo Album

Since I stopped scrapbooking, my picture taking has not decreased. In fact, it has only increased now having a child. I suppose I could forget about making a family album because really all of my pictures are of Mazy (and apparently we don’t have a life outside of her), but I still find value in…

Why YOU Should Live An Organized Life

I {heart} talking about organizing. Some women like to talk about fashion. Some women talk about the latest beauty product. I talk about simplifying and organizing. When someone comes up to me and talks about how they are trying to get their life organized, I get all fired up. My heart starts to race as…

ENJOY This Christmas Season!

Christmas is fast approaching? Are you ready? I sometimes feel when people ask the question whether I am ready or not, I feel I have to have this huge checklist checked off, with nothing but Christmas bliss left. Christmas shouldn’t be about a to-do list. Yet that is what we have made it to be….

Doing It All, But Missing Out

The other day, I read in my devotional how we often try to stay busy, as our culture screams at us to do so. For indeed, it’s our culture that tries to make us believe that a busy life is a successful life. When we spend umpteen hours at our job, surely that makes us…

20 Days, 3 Ways, __ Bags: Shoes

It takes one pair to get through a day. Yet we all have WAY MORE than what we need. SHOES. Do you use a shoe rack? Or do you just throw your shoes in the closet in hopes that you can find a matching pair in the morning? No matter what your “system” is, shoes…