by lisa rippy | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
There is a color for walls that seems to be growing in popularity and as I talked with a woman in Hobby Lobby recently, it was a color that I just had to share with her. She had mentioned, while on the phone with her friend, that she had used Sherwin Williams Natural...
by lisa rippy | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog
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...
by lisa rippy | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog
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...
by lisa rippy | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog, Engaging Family, Growing Spiritually, Improving Health, Inspiration, Inspiring Home
If there was a book titled, “How to Destroy Personal Relationships” I wonder how many people would actually want to read it? Can you imagine such a publication, reading like a manual – giving step-by-step actions that a person can take in order to...
by lisa rippy | Jul 7, 2025 | Blog
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...
by lisa rippy | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog
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...
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