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.

Simple Uses For Ordinary Items: Cardboard Tubes

Cardboard tubes. I have always been quick to recycle them, but I have learned to save just a few. Who would’ve known that cardboard tubes could be used for so many things? Extend your vacuum by slipping a cardboard tube onto the wand to clean in hard to reach places if your wand won’t read….

How Do You Organize Your Digital Photos?

I take a lot of pictures. I mean a LOT. Thanks to being a blogger and doing an “Around The Home” post every week, I take pictures throughout the week, to document what our weeks look like. In doing so, that means I have numerous pictures from just one week. Times that by 52 and…

What To Look For At Thrift Stores

Thrift store shopping – I can’t get enough sometimes! When I had recently moved, a group of women invited me to go thrift shopping with them to a bigger city nearby. We had hit up more thrift stores than I could’ve ever imagined, but the FUN we had, looking for steals and deals, and the…

Simple Uses For Everyday Items: Bleach

The first thing I think of when I hear the word BLEACH is ruined clothes. Why, I am not sure because I don’t think I have ever ruined anything using bleach. Though I seldom use it because I am fearful of that very thought above: ruining something. What I have learned though, is that bleach…

This Is Often What We Dream Of

I confess. THIS. This moment in time. This having to “shelter-in-place.” This being “forced” to be at home gig. This clearing of the calendar – a blank slate. This is often what we dream of. And now we are living in it. When I was taking a walk, I realized the monumental moment this really…

Make Time for Peace and Quiet

Tip #30 – Make time for peace and quiet Multi-tasking, running from here to there, watching tv while catching up on emails. Busyness in a do-it-all world, may be applauded. But is that REALLY what we want? Do we really want to be busy? The noise of this world drowns out what we should…