There is nothing like a warm, cozy home with soft lights, soothing scents, and a love that seems to bounce around the room engaging every heart present. Or perhaps the feeling of excitement that builds as your heels click on a pathway that leads towards a party with laughter echoing inside the door. We all long for feelings of perfect contentment mixed with anticipation of all things lovely.
No matter what your life was like in your youth, there is an entirely new story for you to write. Now you pick up the pen and write your own story of that you want your “home” to be like, feel like, look like, and smell like. You can also influence the happiness of all who dwell there, which in turn affects the spirits of friends and visitors alike.
The rugged pioneer women of the past set us up to high standards when it comes to “making the home.” Skinning the fresh kill from their husbands with bare hands, gardening all their own vegetables and herbs, canning for winter, knitting up holes in blankets, building fires, and sewing clothes for the entire family. Our modern world is more “convenient” than ever, and we literally would never have to do any “womanly” tasks if so desired, but we have to ask, do we really not want to?
Darling believes in the lost art of the hostess, or put in another way, homemaker. Not in the 1950’s-apron-and-dress-fake-smile type of way, but with a modern flair. This version is the woman who can work a high-pressure career, then rush home and put the finishing touches on a lavish themed party set for the night. Women are uniquely multi-faceted; we can practice the arts of etiquette, entertaining, and cooking, while also designing our homes, refurbishing/painting furniture, preparing artistic meals, and even tilling the soil and getting dirt under our fingernails.
To place value on your home blesses every one that comes across your threshold. You can cook. You can sew. You can do the things you thought only your grandmother knew, while remaining stylish, interesting, and ambitious. On a side-note, men find a well-rounded, beautiful, gracious, organized, efficient homemaker extremely attractive!
Lets put on our cute garden boots and aprons, engage our creative mind, and employ our useful hands to make those inside and outside our home feel contentment and comfort as we serve them with a warm heart.
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