3 Reasons for Planning – Part 1

3 Reasons for Planning – Part 1

Planning. It’s how I begin each new week and each new morning, and for 2025, I started a whole new approach to planning. (More to come.) But for 3 very simple reasons, planning is paramount in my life. Some reasons are simply because I’m 56 now and I HAVE to write...
How I Help Clients Design Their Kitchen

How I Help Clients Design Their Kitchen

While I was typing out today’s title, “Design Starts with Purpose” I couldn’t help but think about Proverbs 25:11 – “An idea well-expressed is like a design of gold, set in silver.” (Good News Translation)  There is no other...
5 Ways to Bring Cheer To Your Home

5 Ways to Bring Cheer To Your Home

Cheerful. That is such a wonderful word to describe a home, isn’t it? .  When used in the form of a noun, it means “optimism, happiness and confidence.” An example of cheer as a noun is, “His dad was full of cheer as he watched his son play his...
Making Home

Making Home

When it comes to the special projects in our home, it had to be creating a dining space that took the most “Rip work!” We wanted the dining space to have a look and invitational feel to it like what you’d experience in an old southern antebellum home...