Sneak Peak of our Favorite Holiday-Ready Homes

By Barbara Rainey | December 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

Check out these photos from friends around the globe preparing their homes and hearts for worship. We hope they’ll encourage you too, as you prepare to focus your loved ones on Jesus this Christmas.   New this year, our Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him Ribbon is so lovely in our friend Sasha’s home. Love the way […]

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Thanksgiving Home Tour: Prepping for the Feast

By Barbara Rainey | November 3, 2015 | 9 Comments

Happy November! I’m eagerly anticipating the arrival of my kids for Thanksgiving, so I’m beginning now:  planning what I can prepare ahead of time. As much as I love my kitchen, my goal is always to avoid being imprisoned in it when my kids are here. The hub of activity when everyone arrives. I’m so grateful […]

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Home Tour

By Barbara Rainey | May 5, 2015 | 4 Comments

Hi, friends. Last month I was in Minneapolis to meet a team of people, now new friends, who will be helping me publish a new book. I told them I loved seeing their personal spaces, where they work and live so much of their days, all individual expressions of their personalities and interests. Now when we […]

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Heart-Healthy Hospitality

By Janel Breitenstein | June 13, 2014 | 5 Comments
Heart-Healthy Hospitality

  With a wide smile, I lifted my hand in farewell to the rough-and-tumble SUV, tires lifting and falling on the potholes and stones. The family within had bunked with us for the good part of a week, saturating our home with laughing shrieks and extra bare feet running in the dust. All told, we totalled […]

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Beauty at Home

By Barbara Rainey | August 28, 2013 | Comments Off on Beauty at Home

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. — Charles Kingsley I constantly find my head turning toward nearly anything creative, like recently when I discovered this cool new paint by Amy Howard.  Two old badly faded chairs in my living room have been in need of restoration, so I […]

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