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Life Blessons: thoughts on life, love and God
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These are the stories about my life: as a Christ follower, a new bride aspiring to set up our home sweet home, a girl growing into a woman, learning each step along the way. Enjoy musings and deep thoughts on faith, marriage and living as well as decorating tips, crafts, frugal finds, and a friendly online face!
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Bring Some New Life to Your Button-Up Shirts & Make the Most of Your Wardrobe

Sometimes, it only takes a couple of stitches to bring new life to your clothes. For this tutorial in the Making the Most of Your Wardrobe series, you dont even need a sewing machine! I wanted to sho...

1 day ago

On Buying a Small House

The house my husband and I bought is big for us. We don’t even have enough furniture to give it that cozy, “lived in” look. Instead, it has something of an “empty” look about it with its bare spaces ...

2 days ago

Walking Through Scripture: Psalm 29

At the beginning of the year, when I was doing a mini-series on Bible study, I mentioned that instead of following a pre-made Bible reading plan (like the chronological one I did in 2011), I was goin...

3 days ago

Update About How My Freelance Writing Is Going

It’s been awhile since I’ve made any mention about how my freelance writing is going. (I think the last update I made about it was in this post. And here’s where I talked about the genesis behind thi...

4 days ago

Explore the Archives: June 2010 on Life Blessons

Im still plugging away at manually creating a browser-friendly archives page for all my past blog posts, month by month. Heres a look at what was going on in my life, way back in June 2010. From ...

5 days ago

How to Hem Your Jeans to the Perfect Length and Make the Most of Your Wardrobe

Finding jeans that fit can be a difficult enough task without trying to get them the right length, on top of fitting every other part of your body. Fortunately, though, hemming your jeans is really s...

5 days ago

A Cleaning Schedule for People Who Hate to Clean

We all have our strengths and weaknesses when it comes to anything, even homemaking. Mine? Well, I enjoy making a lot of everyday stuff from scratch (from salsa to salad dressing). But housecleaning ...

6 days ago

My Secret Weapon to Decorating My House

Things around my house have been unpacked for months now. Furniture is in place, dishes are organized in the cupboards, clothes placed in a row on hangers. But then there’s that whole aspect of decor...

6 days ago

A Few of My Favorite Things: Craft Supplies Edition

These are A Few of My Favorite Things, an on-going, once-a-month series that sheds some light on, well, my favorite items throughout my home. (To read through all posts in the series, click here.) In...

20 may 12

A History of Rain in My Life (Or, Why I Enjoy Thunderstorms)

Lately it’s been raining a lot here. Raindrops pitter-patter down. Puddles pool. Miniature ravines flow through the cracks in the dirt and cascade around pebble-sized boulders, bending the blades of ...

17 may 12

Explore the Archives: May 2010 on Life Blessons

Im still plugging away at manually creating a browser-friendly archives page for all my past blog posts, month by month. Heres a look at what was going on in my life, way back in May 2010. From a man...

11 may 12

Homemade Pizza Bites Recipe

One of my favorite things to do in the kitchen is to learn how to foods that typically arent very good for you and make them so that theyre not only healthier but, oftentimes, even better than the st...

10 may 12

From Brassy to Flashy: Transforming A Pair of Lamps for Our Bedroom

My husband and I are both big read-before-bedtime folks, with a stack of books on both sets of nightstands. But hoisting lamps onto the nightstands to aid that nightly routine has proved more bulky t...

09 may 12

Misconceptions in Blogland

The other day I was trying to pass the time until my husband got home from work. I was looking up recipes and reloading Pinterest when something popped into my head to visit a blog I used to read but...

08 may 12

How to Fix a Low-Cut Top and Make the Most of Your Wardrobe

I’m so excited to kick off this new series, Make the Most of Your Wardrobe, with one of my standby alteration techniques! There are so many times when I’ve come across a shirt that fits me in so many...

07 may 12

A Call to Get Crafty in Your Closet: Make the Most of Your Wardrobe, A New Series at Life Blessons

I’ve been cutting and stitching clothes for more than a decade, a hobby that started in high school when you couldn’t find those worn-in, vintage-looking t-shirts anywhere but in an actual vintage re...

04 may 12

For Me, This is Considered a Shopping Spree

When we moved into this house, I didn’t want to feel like everything had to be bought and arranged and perfectly matching from the get-go. Instead, I wanted to take my time building it up, putting my...

03 may 12

Adventures in Trying New Foods: Lentils and Cabbage Update

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve challenged myself to try a new food each month, which I outlined in this post here. In January I tried kale, and then in February I tried Brussels sprouts. In Ma...

01 may 12

Advertise on Life Blessons: Now Accepting Sponsors

Life Blessons has grown so much since I first started writing it back in the winter of 2009. What started as a blog that was read only by a handful of friends and family is now read by thousands of f...

30 apr 12

Does Blogging or Journaling Make You Happy?

The folks at BlogHer (the ad network I use on my blog, which you can learn more about here) are curious to know how blogging, journaling, writing and connecting online help increase happiness. They p...

28 apr 12

Explore the Archives: April 2010 on Life Blessons

Its been awhile, but Im still plugging away at manually creating a browser-friendly archives page for all my past blog posts, month by month. I started this process last year and then took a little h...

27 apr 12

There are Some Things You Only Realize Later, When You Have the Advantage of Hindsight…

One thing that never fails to astonish me is how good God is. Even in the midst of squirming and praying and pulling away. Sometimes, we just can’t see the goodness until much, much later. That’s how...

26 apr 12

The Power of a Little Grain of Yeast

“Jesus turned first to his disciples and warned them, Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees—beware of their hypocrisy.” (Luke 12:1) I think sometimes it can be so easy for us, today, to look back at t...

26 apr 12

How to Make a Hideaway Magnetic Recipe Board for the Inside of Your Kitchen Cupboards

One of the things Ive been attempting to do with this new house of ours is to come up with smart solutions to even the most trivial of problems. Because I figure since were going to be here for awhil...

25 apr 12

Opening the Curtains on a New Day

One of my favorite daily rituals is waking up early and walking the house, opening the curtains and blinds as I go. From room to room, letting the rising, glittering sunlight wash in after a long nig...

23 apr 12

Better Blogging: A Complete Recap of all the Posts in this Series

For the past few weeks, weve dug deep into the Better Blogging series that Ive been running, responding to a lot of questions and comments that have come my way. Ive covered a bunch of different topi...

20 apr 12

Oatmeal Carrot Cake Cookies Recipe

I recently reorganized my recipe file (which you can see a sneak peek of what it actually looks like here). I usually take some time once every few months to do some pruning to the clippings and cut-...

19 apr 12

How We Spent Our Spring-Break Vacation: A Trip to Washington, DC

At the end of March, my husband and I had the sweet opportunity to leave Atlanta behind for a few days, board a plane to the coast and spend time in our nation’s capital with my husband’s family. Her...

18 apr 12

The History of My Blog and How Its Grown Over the Past Two Years: Developing Quality Content (Part ...

In retracing the evolution of this blog over the past two years, I’ve talked about how I first launched it and why I started it, how I’ve tried to increase traffic as well as my approach to designing...

17 apr 12

The One Thing We Didn’t DIY This Year

This spring marked a first for me: It was the first time I paid someone to do my taxes. For a died-in-the-wool DIY-er who makes her own bread, bodywash, pizza sauce and salad dressing, who takes it u...

16 apr 12 1 person likes this

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