Spring is in full swing here in sunny California, and I’m continuing my season of simplifying, organizing, and general de-cluttering of all the things. With four kids, two dogs, and a semi-regular habit of moving, I’m coming to terms with the fact that this is an ongoing (lifelong?) process that will never be fully DONE. I want to be okay (even content) with the less than perfect messiness of life, and to be grateful for what that means.
Life.
Abundance.
Growth.
To be genuinely thankful for what is, rather than longing for an always elusive, unattainable ideal. To be able to sincerely say …
I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. – Philippians 4:12-13
In cleaning up my little sun-room studio, getting ready for next week’s big surprise (which I promise to tell you more about soon), I found a few more things I thought were sold out. Seems like the perfect time for a little giveaway, don’t you think?
Nevermind little. How about a pretty big giveaway?
Okay, let’s do it. Here’s everything that’s included in this package of goodness, worth more than $180 …
- Monogram Alphabet Scripture Card Set
- Psalms & Roses Postcard Collection
- Psalm 23 Postcard Collection
- 2019 Inspirational Art Calendar
- Color Your Year 2019 Coloring Calendar
- Psalm 23 Scripture Art 2019 Calendar
To enter to win, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. I’d love to hear what the weather’s like in your part of the world – are the roses blooming, or is that just a dream for another day? Tell me what area of your house is most in need of de-cluttering (mine’s the garage, hands down).
That’s it. Super easy. I’ll pick a winner next week and let you in on the secret project I’ve been getting ready to share!
In the meantime, I’ll leave you with this FREE DE-CLUTTERING CHALLENGE from my friend Dana over at A Slob Comes Clean. It’s a quick fifteen minute video, along with a printable workbook to help motivate and inspire you to finally get that (scary) clutter out once and for all. Free, easy, and funny to boot. Doesn’t get much better than that!
Just make sure to grab it right away, since it’s only available until Saturday, April 24th!
FREE DE-CLUTTERING CHALLENGE >
Here’s to de-cluttering, contentment, and simplicity.
Be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5
It is allergy season in Kansas. I’m enjoying the beauty of the blooms from indoors when I really want to be outside! …. My basement needs to have its contents cut in half. We moved in to this house about 18 months ago and the basement became the dumping ground. I’d be happy to purge 25% of it to start!!
Hello! Happy Spring! My whole house needs to be decluttered. I have lived in it for 35 years -raise 5children, multiple dogs,cats, guinea pigs,chinchillas, said goodbye till we meet again to my husband and mother-in-law. And I have all the leftovers to clear out to make room for a new life. Looking forward to a new space with only the things I use.
We have buds on our rose bushes and the iris are blooming! Our closets need decluttering. Time to take out clothes kids have outgrown and ones we no longer wear.
Here in Kansas, the May Flowers and June Bugs arrive in April. My areas in need of decluttering are the kitchen counters (always), the basement and the garage. Unfortunately, these areas will need to wait to get any attention until after April.
I haven’t seen any roses blooming here yet, but trees and bushes are beautiful right now. The weather has been very nice, in the 70s. I need to de clutter my bedroom closet.
Hello from Nebraska! It’s a beautiful sunny day today. A welcome change:). Our flowering crabapple tree is blooming and it’s lovely 🌸.
I have 3 areas of my home I would love to declutter. My garage, the attic and the basement. I’m determined to complete one of those this year:)
As always your artwork is lovely and what a wonderful giveaway!
Your site has been a blessing to me!
Hi Emily, in Louisiana the weather doesn’t stay the same for long, but yesterday and today were beautiful spring days!
Hey there! Good ole Ohio weather has been beautiful!! The sun is shining!! And the area we must need to address here is our closets. We were saving some size down clothes post baby but I think it might be time to go through them and get rid of them 😃
Hello from sunny & rainy Ohio where the temps are in the 60s in the afternoon and still dipping into the 40s at night. Some trees have blossomed and the forsythia is in bloom. I love your work and your sweet spirit. Keep it up. You are an encouragement and a joy.!
Vancouver has been alternating: one day of cloudless sunny weather, another day of pouring rain. I’m a bit sentimental, so I need to declutter all the things I hold onto for memory’s sake.
Blessings from Florida! Not the best climate for roses but the Hibiscus are blooming in every color!
I tbought a lovely coral hibiscus to give my neighbor who lost her husband this week. Before I could go to her house she rang my doorbell and brought me a gorgeous lavendar orchid as thanks for looking after her. As for decluttering, I seem to be “waking up” to the huge need to lighten up and create a haven in our home.
Thanks for your wonderful inspirations!
Hello! Here in Louisiana, you never know what kind of weather you’ll get each day. Right now, I’m just feeling grateful that the Easter weekend was absolutely perfect weather and my grandchildren were able to dye and hunt Easter eggs outside!
In MD it’s sunny and 80°. Spring/summer is in full swing with the trees flowing and having leaves. My basement is in desperate need of decluttering.
Here in Texas it’s beautiful but with rain off and on. But my new rose bush given to us when my MIL passed away last summer IS blooming! They are a beautiful bright pink! Thanks for sharing your goodies!
Hello from Michigan! Spring is finally here! I have daffodils and tulips coming up – such a pretty sight! My biggest declutter-area is the basement. My family and I have such a tough time parting with sentimental items. We can always recall who gave us what and how we felt when we received the item. I know we need to get rid of some items so we can find some order, but it will be a painful process. I love your He is risen printable. It is hanging in my home office so I can see it every day. I hope you enjoyed your time in California.
When live in the Carolinas which is much like a lot of other southern areas, definitely spring, but can go from 40s in the morning to upper 70s in the afternoon. We had a lot of rain earlier but lately it has been mostly sunny. We moved recently which was great for cleaning out stuff we don’t need, but we still have a garage full of stuff to sort through, declutter, and put away. So that’s our scary place. I downloaded and printed the pages we needed and am ready to go!
*We live…
And the flowers, daffodils, azaleas, flowering trees, have been gorgeous this year!
Nice warm weather in ohio took the kids to park after school started out overcast but was sunny when we left.
Hi! Our weather is getting warmer, although I would prefer it to be even warmer… We just found out that we’re moving, so my whole house will be getting a decluttering! The place that needs it most, I do believe, is my craft room. It’s just so hard to get rid of things that have the potential to turn into other things! Oh, our Rose’s are blooming, so keep “hope” yours will bloom soon! 😉
No roses up here in Maine! Still running the wood stove, and waiting for daffodils. The whole house needs decluttering, but the small prints I ordered for my home when we moved three years ago still give me joy!
Oh my goodness, Kentucky spring is heaven! Our storage areas are bursting at the seams…time for a yard sale!
Welllll…. I live in Georgia and that means the weather changes almost daily in the spring! One day it’s cold (for us, southerners) and one day it’s hot (like today which was in the mid-eighties). But all-in-all, everything is absolutely beautiful. Green and lush are the way things are looking and it’s my favorite.
Right now I have a messy pantry. It’s every mom’s dream but it’s also a catch all. And my laundry room is messy. It’s large and houses some of my husband’s tools, homeschool books, crafty things, and of course, laundry. Both areas need to be de-cluttered and organized.
Thanks for the chance to win, Emily!
Hi Emily!
We’re embarking on a potted garden adventure here in Georgia. We’re planting things we’ve bought that were organic – such as avocados – and praying they grow well!
My decluttering situation is unique. We’re a big family in a small house, so what we really need are storage containers and organizers for various places. Our entire house needs help! We’ve begun by getting a baker’s rack – it helped a lot.
Have a blessed day!
We had a gorgeous weekend in Kansas to celebrate my son’s 1st birthday and our Risen Savior! I definitely need to declutter the kids toys and clothes. It’s challenging for me to keep up with their changing sizes along with the changing seasons. I’d love to hear about other people’s systems for this!
Hello from Smyrna, GA! My extra bedroom turned catch-all is my most cluttered space in need of some love. And I’d love to win that giveaway!
Hello from sunny Colorado! It is a beautiful 70 degree day today, and the tulips, paperwhites, and daffodils are in full bloom. I appreciate all your beautiful artwork, Emily, and thank you for your generosity! My basement school room is in great need of organization and decluttering.
Today hit in the low 80s, inspiring a quick stop at the garden shop to refill my planter. And I signed up for the challenge: scaredy basement shelves, here I come!
Blooming trees – so lovely. Today it was 79 degrees!
Hi! Here in Honolulu, Hawaii it will be 84F all week. Fingers crossed the trade winds blow or the humidity can become a bit stifling. The plumeria blooms are starting, after an unusually cold winter. A place I need to declutter is a room my husband and I share and call ‘the office’. Unfortunately it has become the catch-all room for things that need a home (or a flame-thrower!). I will be jumping into the de-cluttering challenge! Thank you for sharing your lovely artwork with us, interwoven with scripture!
Spring is here – things are greening up and the weather is warming up! Blue skies and sunshine!
Loni here in Southern California. We have a blustery spring so far, with lots of wind, and mostly cool temperatures. The weeds are springing up everywhere after a wet winter, (unusual for us in the desert where I live!) But my Roses and trees are starting to bloom too! By far right now my garage needs decluttering, as well as a couple of rooms in my house. I have two daughters getting married two months apart this summer, so wedding stuff has overtaken two rooms and spreading to others.. LOL!!
spring is finally here in Minnesota as well. It is so glorious after a long winter to see the plants creeping up a little more every day, and to be OUTSIDE with the kids! My whole house needs a good spring clean, but as for decluttering, definitely the basement!
We’re enjoying sunshine in northern California! *Every* room in my home is scary right now. No, really. looking forward to listening to the decluttering challenge & giveaway. 🙂
It’s beautiful here in Georgia outside of Atlanta. Things are blooming and green!
I live in Florida and it’s been a weird spring. On Easter it was windy & chilly but this week we’re going to be unseasonably warm. The room I need to declutter the most is our bedroom. It seems to collect all the stuff we don’t know what to do with. I would love to make it a priority to create a beautiful sanctuary in that room.
I’m in California too, so we’ve got sunshine warming up by the day ;). Need to declutter our living room :p
Hey there! Hi! I live in Southwest Ohio. Spring is trying real hard to spring! Still pretty chilly most mornings. My whole condo needs de-cluttering. There is no room. Ugh!
The area most in need of decluttering is the kids playroom!!
I live in central Florida and the weather has been in the perfectly delightful mid 50’s for my morning walks the last few days. I noticed a Pileated Woodpecker frequenting a knothole in a Live Oak Tree on our property. So I am wondering if there is a nest being made.
My Brother, Son and Nephew have been doing some clean up on our property, especially concentrating on two large downed trees from Hurricane Irma from several years back. Things are looking like we are taking Spring cleaning seriously here on our little country road.
For me personally, my need for cleaning, and organizing in my large walk in closet. I my store fabric for sewing projects there. I am highly motivated to enter in and do what needs to be done, because I just learned my son and daughter-in-love are having a baby the end of October. Let the organizing, cleaning and creating begin with sewing for my new grandchild in mind.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter your beautiful and bountiful giveaway!
My garage is in need of decluttering and/or a garage sale! The weather fluctuates often here in Houston! Right now though it’s pretty nice!
It’s finally warm here in Tennessee! My pink dogwood tree bloomed just in time for Easter. I’ve got a guest-room-turned-storage-space that I plan to organize with Dana K. White’s method in the next couple of weeks!
It’s a breezy beautiful Spring day here in Utah. My whole house needs decluttering, I honestly cannot pick a place that needs it more than somewhere else!
I’m in northern Nevada and the weather is beautiful right now. Spring is in full swing but at over 4200 feet elevation winter can still make a comeback. My desk and garage need to be cleaned up and organized but the rest of the house is doing pretty good because I’ve been on a cleaning spree for a few months. Thank you for your beautiful work!
Hi Emily, It’s actually warm here in Illinois. The room that I need to declutter the most is my office. I think it will be a more relaxing space once I do so!
After a cold, gray potato soup and homemade biscuits for dinner kind of day yesterday, we are enjoying sunshine and a grilled chicken pita and fruit salad kind of day today. The changeablity of spring in Colorado….!
The weather is beautiful and sunny here in N.Ireland. The blackthorn is in flower and the elderflower and hawthorn is in bud. The newborn lambs are skipping in the field racing to the other end to see who can get there first. The area in my house most needing decluttering is the kitchen. I have too many items cluttering the worktops. The decluttering challenge is just what I need to encourage me!
This week has been warm on the Central Coast of California and my roses just started blooming! I need to declutter my homeschool books, which are primarily stored in my basement. I would love to win this collection to use as door prizes at our church’s next Mom’s Night Out, which happens to be on the topic of decluttering!
We are heading into Winter in New Zealand. The weather is crisp and refreshing. Some rain, but not to bad. The storms are in the household of six. Decreased from nine. (Three have grown and moved out). The clutter is real.
Hello from Norther Utah. I am looking outside at the sunshine and thinking that things are nice here today
Rainy and gray here in southwest New York, but spring is coming! I may even have to mow the lawn in a week or two…. My laundry room catches all the random piles and needs some attention right now. Thanks for the giveaway!
Hello from southern Louisiana where ‘spring’ has definitely arrived- along with mosquitos. In the process of giving my whole house a major decluttering- where the family is starting to wonder what am I NOT going to get rid of! Right now my homeschool room is the big project, to be followed with my kitchen and dining room. Tackled the toys, kids clothes and bathrooms a couple weeks ago. Long process but the results are absolutely worth all the effort. Only the good, useful and beautiful things that bring joy are safe😊