#10 Making Home Cozy with Liz Marie Galvan

06/20/22 • 43 min

Liz Marie Galvan is widely known as the “queen of cozy” in the blogging and Instagram world, she is also the author of a widely loved book called Cozy White Cottage and her most recent book, Cozy White Cottage Seasons.As homemakers, we know that home is meant to be shared and I love that in Liz’s newest book, "Cozy White Cottage Seasons", she walks you through a beautiful guide for creating moments of coziness that draw out the best of each season by sharing tips n’ tricks that she has learned along the way, as well as tools for authentically creating and enjoying a home where memories and traditions will come alive through the seasons.While we do chat about Liz’s newest book and ways for making home cozy through our favorite seasons of the year, in today’s episode, my friend Liz Marie Galvan and I invite you to listen in as we also discuss the magnificence of making home cozy through seasons of life, as well. From the more difficult seasons of military deployment, infertility, and miscarriage, to the more celebrated and joyful seasons of restoring an 1800’s farmhouse and starting a farm, opening a brick-and-mortar shop, and becoming a mother, Liz gracefully and wholeheartedly shares her journey with me and why she believes coziness is so impactful within the making of a home.“With every loss or every hardship, it almost propelled me and encouraged me to do that [cultivate comfort and coziness] more, because it showed me how important it was to have a haven that you could go and escape to together, for your soul to heal, and just to nurture you every day.” - Liz Marie Galvan (@lizmariegalvan on Instagram).A few little things that were mentioned in today’s episode + the coordinating details:1. Visit the Liz Marie Blog here.2. Purchase Liz's first book, Cozy White Cottage, here.3. Purchase Liz's second book, Cozy White Cottage Seasons, here.Join our community of thousands of women worldwide, as we navigate the joys and hardships of homemaking, alongside one another! The Homemaker's Club currently gathers on Instagram. The Homemaker's ClubTM is a sisterhood of women who value the old-fashioned ways and traditions of making house a home. We are the homemakers, gathered for good. The Homemaker's Market has new spring goods in stock! The Homemaker's Market: Goods + Provisions for Making a House a Home | Shop The Homemaker's Market Here!

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#9 Foundation for Heart and Home with Katie Campbell

Like the calendar year, homemaking comes with seasons. Some seasons in home are abundantly beautiful, and some are filled with trials and tribulations... but one thing remains true, having deep rooted hope and knowing that the role of homemaking is magnificent and incredibly worthwhile will get you through even the hardest of days. In today’s episode, my friend Katie and I invite you to listen in as we discuss the ways in which we journey through the seasons of celebration and hardships in home with a whole lot of hope, grace, fellowship, and endurance.“Hope just keeps us propelling forward in goodness. Homemaking is worth it. It’s worthwhile. And you have a whole community of people who are here to find the beauty in the ordinary and rejoice in the old-fashioned ways of making a house a home. Just rely on that truth and those good voices, and they’ll bring up that hope and faithfulness in homemaking for all of us. When we keep doing this and people keep sharing their testimonies, it’s just going to keep fueling faith that all of this is worth it." - Katie Campbell (@under_the_sassafras on Instagram)From today’s episode:You can find Miss Sally Clarkson’s podcast by tapping here, as well as her blog and access to her books by tapping here! Oh! And of course, her Instagram here! (Sally is the sweet lady that Ashley lovingly calls “The Fairy Godmother of Homemaking”, and you are soon to learn why, you just watch!)Alex Smith who was my guest on Episode 7, who lovingly said, “Something great is happening here”. You can listen to our conversation about becoming and cultivating friendship by tapping here!Join our community of thousands of women worldwide, as we navigate the joys and hardships of homemaking, alongside one another! The Homemaker's Club currently gathers on Instagram. The Homemaker's ClubTM is a sisterhood of women who value the old-fashioned ways and traditions of making house a home. We are the homemakers, gathered for good. The Homemaker's Market has new spring goods in stock! The Homemaker's Market: Goods + Provisions for Making a House a Home | Shop The Homemaker's Market Here!

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#11 Comparison and Contentment with Jenny Fitzgerald

In today's episode, my friend Jenny and I invite you to listen in as we discuss the imaginary checklists that we create for being a "certified" homemaker through comparison and the need for checking expectations at the door and share ways in which we fight for beauty and gratitude amongst the tasks of our days' work within our homes."Homemaking, a lot of times is 1000 mundane tasks every single day that you're going to do over and over and over again that you're like, "I'm doing this today so that I can get up again tomorrow and do it again. Like it's going be the same. It's I'm going have to clean the kitchen again tomorrow, probably three times." So that is super defeating to me. If I get in that realm, what can I do that's going make it special. Is it going to be music, a candle, like a cup of tea, coffee for me usually or what can I find that's beautiful here? Like, what am I living right now that I prayed for? What am I living right now that I always hoped for? That I'm still not reaching this like checkbox or this expectation, so that I'm almost discontent in the right now because this still isn't perfect. And this still isn't perfect. And maybe my kitchen doesn't look like this, or maybe my weights like this, or my hair's falling out. All of those things, what can we do in those moments? Well, we can kind of say like, "what are our expectations? And what's actually really beautiful, and where am I really at?" - Jenny Fitzgerald (@fitzgeraldlane on Instagram)A few little things that were mentioned in today’s episode + the coordinating details:1. Visit The Fitzgerald Lane Blog by tapping here.2. Shop Jenny's mercantile and artwork by tapping here.3. The book "One Thousand Gifts" Jenny mentioned by author, Ann Voskamp, available here.Join our community of thousands of women worldwide, as we navigate the joys and hardships of homemaking, alongside one another! The Homemaker's Club currently gathers on Instagram. The Homemaker's ClubTM is a sisterhood of women who value the old-fashioned ways and traditions of making house a home. We are the homemakers, gathered for good. The Homemaker's Market has new spring goods and tees in stock! The Homemaker's Market: Goods + Provisions for Making a House a Home | Shop The Homemaker's Market Here!