❄️WINTER BOTANY PRINTABLES❄️ are here, my friends! 👏🏼 As always, they are available for free on the blog to Hymns & Home subscribers as my gift to you. I appreciate each of you and enjoy sharing my creations with you all. 💕 This season I have been particularly loving flocked pine, cute little bottle brush trees, and the subtle use of berries. Inspired by those elements, these prints are a marriage of vintage and minimalism: winter foliage surrounded by tranquil white - like freshly fallen snow. The vintage-inspired text is subdued, in keeping with that calm, wintry feel. 😌❄️ I hope you enjoy! Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions! .
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This week marks the 4-year anniversary of my coming home from work and finding that my husband had torn out our master shower without consulting me first! 😬 We had been married 2 months, and he now admits it was not his best moment. Haha! This shower ended up being our first major house project, but it was the last thing we ever imagined we would be doing! 👉🏻 The master bathroom was the ONLY room in the house that had been updated in the last decade. It was actually a decent room. Unbeknownst to us, however, the previous owners had botched their diy job and were hiding a gigantic leak with duct tape!! 🤯 Not even the inspector caught it when we were in the buying stage. It wasn’t until a few weeks after we moved in that we realized every time we used the shower, we ended up with a lake in the basement! 💦 .
So my husband began rebuilding it from the studs up. Then life happened - work, illness, travel...fast forward 8 MONTHS! (We were using our hall bath in the meantime). We were finally ready to tile. We borrowed a tile saw from my husband’s coworker, and hubby worked on tiling in the evenings. After 2 days, the coworker told us that he was going to need the saw back the next day. We were only half done! 😬 Now picture this 👉🏻 I was 8 weeks pregnant with our first child & extremely nauseous. There we were furiously working to tile that shower, blasting 80’s rock music and drinking Gatorade to keep ourselves going. We finished at 2AM. 😅 It took me a loooong time to be able to tolerate the smell of thinset after that! 🥴 But we finished, we bonded, and now we have those sweet and wacky memories! 🥰 What fun home improvement stories do you have? Please share! 👇🏻
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Still looks a lot like Fall around here, despite the fact that it’s ❄️Snowing❄️ outside!! 😋 Go check out my stories to see the view from my window! Even though I haven’t broken out the Christmas decor yet (my husband would freak out) I’ve definitely been planning! 👏🏼🌲 .
For those that follow my weekly recipe share, my apologies that it wasn’t up last night. It’s been a really rough week with our whole family ill, but we’re on the mend. Recipe share is up in stories now, and added to highlights! 🥕🥬🍅 (P.S. If you haven’t seen the before of this table, swipe to see the transformation!)
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Giving thanks that we are all starting to get a little better after 10 days of illness! For what are you thankful today? 💕
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I found this vintage chalkboard at a garage sale a few weeks back. It had a rather unfortunate quote written on it in crayon! 🤭 That was not surprising, considering the guy from whom I bought it was, shall we say, interesting. We didn’t stick around long at that sale. 😬 However, for $3 I gave it a go and cleaned it up with a little SimpleGreen. 🧽 That stuff is magic! I topped it with a little garland I made out of fabric leftover from the curtains, and hung it in our kitchen where we can all see it from the table. 🙂 I look forward to writing many messages to my family on it! .
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Hey there, friends! I thought it was about time I took a minute to introduce myself! 🙂 I’m Melissa, a professional musician who enjoys decor, diy projects, thrifting, and blogging about it all. (Link in profile.) I play piano, organ, and a little bit of harpsichord. Two years ago I resigned my full-time church music job to become a stay-at-home-mom, but I do still play on a rotational basis. 🎹 I love a good project and enjoy breathing new life into old pieces, particularly furniture! 👏🏼 Considering these two “sides” of my life - church music and homemaking - I found it fitting to call the blog Hymns & Home!
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I am saved by grace through faith in Jesus! 💕 I’m married to a wonderful Christian man who is an electrical engineer and is skilled in all the areas in which I am not (like math!). He’s my best friend, and I’m so thankful for him! 💕 He is super handy and I never cease to be amazed by his skill and work ethic. Fun fact - we met at a trivia night! We’ve now been married 4 years and have been blessed with two sweet children - a boy (age 2.5) and a girl (age 9 months). They keep me busy! 💕 Shortly before we got married, we bought our house. The search for a house was not an easy one, partly due to the market, but also the fact that we were simultaneously house hunting, planning a wedding, and working full time. God totally spared us from making a disastrous home purchase and eventually led us to our present home. You can read all the fun details on the blog under “The Story of Our Home!” 🏡 Our house is a 1960s brick ranch. Upon purchase, every room was in need of updating - particularly the carpeted kitchen! 😝 Over the last 4 years we have renovated the entire house ourselves, one room at a time, occasionally pausing to have a baby! 😋 Decorating it all is still in the works! 👉🏻 I’d love to have you join me on this adventure, as I share projects, inspiration, and more - including a favorite recipe every week (in highlights). 💕 Now I’d love to meet you! Please introduce yourself below! 🙂
