Once again it is time for a round-up of what has been inspiring me this week... On Family This. So very much: Sarah Bessey on what Love Looks Like "we bought the lie, hook line and sinker from the evangelical hero complex. Life was meant to be an adventure, filled with risk and romance...But here’s the truth: lifelong love is actually most built throughout the hours of the ... View Post
Search Results for: Candlemas
Friday Favorites – Weekly Round-Up of the Interwebs
On Farmsteading When I need a break from thinking about laundry, kitchen remodel, and work, I start daydreaming about when can begin work on our farmstead- outside. I started a Farmstead Pinterest board, and I love this post from A Country Life - it is full of just the sort of things I want to do! On Fluff Figuring out how I want to decorate this house ... View Post
Monday’s Mess – Underneath the Pretty
Sir–A thought to help us through these difficult times: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Ian MacLaren "Be kind. You never know what is in someones knapsack." - Amy Hawkins (one of my besties) "Be kind. You never know what is underneath the pretty." - Jerusalem Greer This is how my house looked Saturday before our Candlemas party. It was so clean and cozy.Isn't it ... View Post
Five on Friday – Links I Love
On finding space This from Ann Voskamp “In a village floating on water — space can be hard to find.” In a life like this — space can be hard.In a life standing on thin stilts over waves — space can be hard to find, space to think and dream and make and read and do and become. All I have said for months is that I need SPACE. Mental, emotional, physical, creative. Ann has ... View Post
Guess what? It’s a BOOK!
Good morning friends! Happy Monday to you all! Well, guess what? It's finally official. I have a book. A real -life-I-can- hold- it-in-my-hands book. So let's have some cake and celebrate, shall we? This book is a dream come true. A dream fought for, a dream worked for, cried for, prayed for, blood, sweat and teared for. And now it is here. In my kitchen. It really happened. I, Jerusalem ... View Post
someday I will learn to paint and draw
I love the artist Caitlin McGauley . I love her style, the way she is both casual and elegant, detailed and subtle. The edges of each object in her paintings are slightly blurred and soft, like my vision when I wake up slowly, from a wonderful dream. I know this in-part due to her choice of media, to the interplay of the paper and the pigment and the water, but it is also do to her vision. Her ... View Post