Join the Journey Toward Beautifying Your Home One Small Baby Step at a Time

 

Yesterday, I shared my first baby step towards a renewed journey to beautify our home.

Today, I'd like to invite you to journey along your own similar path, sharing as you go.

You see, a week or so ago, when a friend posted on her Facebook page, "I don't have a single beautiful space in my house. I don't have an 'eye' or any clue how to make the space look nice," I realized that I could echo her sentiment. 

I also thought, But there are folks I know in person and through Facebook who DO have that "eye". 

Then, I thought, Connections! Might there be interest in an online idea and help group on Facebook where we might post a picture of a space in our home and ask others for ideas about it?  Might those who join it who live close to one another connect in person to offer help to one another?

With these thoughts in mind, I spontaneously began the Facebook group Baby Steps to Beautiful Spaces for Busy Families as an experiment to see if we might encourage one another in beautifying our homes one baby step at a time so that our homes can best reflect the beauty that dwells within, which if course, is the people!

So far, the group has had little action.  That is okay.  

It served a purpose of encouraging a friend on a given day and has subsequently given me a place to be accountable for my own periodic baby steps - or at least a first baby step so far.  

If you seek an online space for encouragement and accountability in creating your own more beautiful physical space, please feel free to join us!  For my journey to creating more beautiful spaces within my home has begun anew and if you are ready to begin - or continue on - a similar journey, I'd love to share.  

Where do you find inspiration and accountability for creating more beautiful spaces?

One Simple Step to Beautify Your Home

 

My husband gifted me with a couple hours at home by myself the yesterday to clean and organize.  

One of my first areas of attack was our kitchen table, which had become a clutter magnet for papers, art projects and more, all pushed to one end so we could eat on the other.

As soon as I had the table cleared, I thought, Pause, Martianne.  Clear is not enough.  What tiny step might you take to beautify this space?

Answering my own question, I stepped outside and cut a few blooms to make a bouquet, which I placed on the table.  Doing this took all of five minutes, if that, yet inspired so much more time spent in delight.

When my daughter came home, she noticed the bouquet right away and asked with a huge smile, "How did those flowers get there?"  I told her I had picked them.  She then gathered crayons and paper, plunked herself down right next to the flowers and began to draw and color with a huge smile on her face.

Then, this morning, the first thing my daughter did was go outside and pick a tiny bouquet of her own to add to the table.

Her younger brother followed suit.

Now, instead of one piece of clutter left on the table attracting more clutter and creating a space that is anything but beautiful, one small effort seems to be multiplying smiles!

The simple baby step that I took of clearing the table and putting a small bouquet on it has been magnified by my children's delight and purposeful activity.

I have oft heard it said that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."  My journey toward truly making the spaces of my home more beautiful has commenced.  How about yours?

What baby step might you make today to beautifying your home?