One thing I LOVE to do is decorate! Decorate anything! My home, the pages of my scrapbooks, my person w/fun makeup, clothing, & hair styles, etc. Growing up on the poor side, learning to live on one income to allow me to be a full time mom, and surviving life circumstances that can quickly drain an entire lifetime of nest egg and savings from custody battles to job losses and relocations, to living in a DC suburb where despite a solid income, you scrape by because of the cost of living :) I have learned how to be who I am and do what I love to do (decorate anything), in plenty and in want. In other words, on ANY budget!
Women are instinctively very attatched to our homes. From my perspective, life in this world is crazy enough, we are bombarded by so much but the home should be a place of peace, order, & harmony, a safe haven, a comfortable place to be, a place our husband's and children not only look forward to coming home to, but desire to be. Our homes should be a place of safety & rest, a place where we create wonderful memories, a place where hospitality is offered and anyone feels welcome!
If we look at it from the perspective of God has blessed me with this wonderful gift of a home (whether you own, rent, or are a room mate, whether it's your dream home or a fixer upper, wherever it is that you call home). What are we going to do with this gift our heavenly father has provided? From that perspective, our homes are gifts from God, we should do much with what we have been given. We have to be trusted with what we are given in order to be trusted with more. Not that we should have another motive or ever become too attatched to any material possession. I hope you hear my heart here, like any area of life, it's about balance. Appreciating and caring for what you've been given, using your gifts for a greater purpose, but always keeping an eternal perspective of where your true treasure is. I hope that makes sense.
So, when I "Walk In Victory" over getting this blog set up with topics, :) there will hopefully be a topic of Walking In Victory over finances & decorating where I will often update a new and exciting and budget friendly decorating tip for all different occassions. For now, you will often find HGTV, Food Network, or Contemporary Christian music on in the background of my home at any given time of day and yesterday in having a decorating show on in the background as I went about my daily work, I wrote down these ideas and wanted to share them with you! So I'm going to end this post and publish several ideas on how YOU can WALK IN VICTORY OVER HOME DECORATING ON ANY BUDGET in seperate posts for easier future reference for my readers! Stay tuned and go make your home a place where your entire family can walk in victory regardless of your decorating giftings or budget limitations!
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