Click the link below to listen to Simply Living Podcast episode 8!
http://simpleblessingspodcast.buzzsprout.com/
As always the script is a bit different here on the blog from the Podcast. They talk about the same stuff but have different words some times. 🙂
Script
Secrets to making a home…by me…Krissa 🙂
Now, I haven’t even been in this house for a year but it has started to feel like home 🙂
One of the things I did was not changing what I loved and living the way I lived. Growing up our bedrooms showed our personalities greatly! Mine, for instance, was filled with dolls and dollhouses and bright colors. When I was really young I even had a canopy bed! Spoiled? Yes, yes I am. 🙂 Now my room has the tv I refuse to part with, my butterfly chair, which is one of the best chairs for college-aged children (if I do say so myself), my guitar, which I am still looking for a better way to have that out. Right now it is kind of in the way and I don’t use it much, my bed and a few nighttime needs. Plus a poster from college. That is homey to me because it brings back some great memories. I will put a picture up on the blog. Let’s see if I can describe it, so I took a cardboard box and cut it into a fat arrow. I took other pieces of cardboard from that box and cut letters out. The letter’s spelled “French Friday.” The thing we decided to do was have a movie night but, we didn’t want it to be just any kind of movie night. So my two roommates and I decided we were going to have a French movie night which would entail making French food or food with French in the name and watching a movie…in french 🙂
The food was so much fun and absolutely delicious! We had a packed room of neighbors and friends to join in on the fun…but the movie we had decided to watch did not have a French option! So we enjoyed our French food with a movie in English. It was not the night we had planned but it was a great night with great food and friends. 🙂
In 2017 I had the BEST Christmas. Why may you ask? Because a 19-year-old girl asked her mommy for a Teddy Bear for Christmas and that is what she got 🙂 That Teddy Bear is named Teddy. Original I know but if you see him (he is on some earlier photos on our Instagram) he looks like a Teddy! He has a Jean shirt with a plaid jacket, brown soft fuzzy hair, and the cutest little face! Ok, so I sound like I am talking about a real animal BUT he makes me feel like I am at home because he was a special gift from my Mama.
Another secret to making a place feel like home is to make sure you have a corner with pillows and blankets that you can curl up in. This is the best place during storms or when you don’t feel good and you just want to lie down and feel comforted. My safe place is in my room. I moved my bed into the corner so I could sit up in my bed and not have a window right behind me. I also moved my bed so I would have a corner to curl up in. Corners have always been my safe place. I remember cleaning my room (which was always code for rearranging) when I was younger and I moved my bed in the corner and my dresser running the long way to make myself a little hole. In college, I had the lower bunk with the futon on one side and our changing room/closet (we were three girls in a 4 person room) on the other. It was dark and hidden so I always called it the cave, my safe place. Back to now, my corner is on my bed, I stack up my pillows bring over my tie blanket (the only one I have that one of my best friends made me for a birthday) and I feel safe and a little bit better. It also helps if I am texting my mom 🙂
My favorite secret for making a home is always be willing to make your favorite dessert. Even if that means you need to run to the store. If you want your favorite dessert from growing up there is a good chance you are feeling a bit homesick. Taking that childhood memory and expanding on it in this new place tends to help with feeling like you are home.
I mentioned earlier about having something that reminds you of someone from your childhood but what about something that reminds you of where you grew up? My something is a rooster. This rooster is a handsome devil. He is also a helpful little guy because he is holding a chalkboard! At the moment he is saying “Drink up!” He is located on the built-in in the Dining room where I often have drinks 🙂
As you can see, the secrets to making a place feel like home are not always big things, but the little touches 🙂 Each secret is super easy and attainable just know what you love and what makes you happy.
Till next time, see the blessings in every day!