Home Decor

Right before Bara Faith was born, I blogged about how we were moving into our forever home.  I had just binged watched a few seasons of “Fixer Upper” and as I dreamed of motherhood, I had visions of being my own style of Joanna Gaines with a yard full of babies running around feeding chickens and goats here on our property while raising my own garden of vegetables I would grow from scratch. So when we found this farm house for sale in Jacksonville in the heart of old Mandarin, we jumped on it! I had so much fun updating…

I saved my favorite room for last in our farmhouse tour, and that is my daughter’s nursery. Oh the long awaited nursery. This nursery was prayed for for so many years through so many tears.  In previous homes, I would literally sit in a ball curled up on the floor of the chosen empty room that I was believing God would one day turn into a nursery, and just cry out to Him to make me a mother.  I remember sobbing such an ugly cry on various occasions because I never knew I could miss someone so much who I…

So I have to admit, as much as I loved this farmhouse when we were looking at it originally, we almost didn’t buy it because of the Master Bedroom.  First, it was much smaller than any of the Master Bedrooms we had had before, and there wasn’t a wall long enough for our oversized bed and nightstands.  So I knew I had to either get creative to make it work, or pass on this house. After much Pinterest brainstorming, I figured out a solution. The only wall that could work had French Doors to the left of the wall that…

After waiting so long to become a mom, it’s such a blessing how my Young Living and photography businesses allow me to be a stay at home working mom.  Though some days (most days, ha!) can be a challenge to sit here in my office with a busy and now mobile 10 month old, I am grateful for every second I get to be home with her to flex my #girlboss turned #momboss muscles. In home offices in the past, I had a lot of crazy bold colors, but this time around, I wanted clean and simple and peaceful.  The room…