For The Love of Joy Blog

Turning my messy story into a beautiful testimony of His unfathomable grace + mercy.

Category: House & Home

  • Empty

    Empty

    “As I go about my days, I can’t help but have a pure disgust for this world. It’s awful. I spend everyday watching as people hate one another. They bow to their idols. They choose themselves first… I look around my own house, marriage, and life to find so much idolatrous clutter. I am disgusted!…

  • Christmas: Through the Eyes of a Young Farm Girl

    Christmas: Through the Eyes of a Young Farm Girl

    I have many, many fond memories of Christmas at our farm growing up. The sights, the smells, the crispness in the air. How mom & dad decorated our wonderful little farm cottage. And I my playhouse… just envision tinsel. Lots and LOTS of tinsel! You know the fluffy garlands you buy at the Dollar Tree? ?…

  • Thanksgiving Dinner: Farm to Table Style ?

    Thanksgiving Dinner: Farm to Table Style ?

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING! ? FROM BROOKS AND JIL of FOR THE LOVE OF JOY BLOG, JACK, ANNABELLE, LAMBIE, AND ALL OF OUR FARM CRITTERS. MAY YOU HAVE BLESSING UPON BLESSING AND THANKFULNESS IN YOUR HEARTS TODAY AND EVERYDAY. Let’s make today fun and light shall we?!? I am sharing a farm to table style setting live…

  • Farmhouse Tour: Fall 2016

    Farmhouse Tour: Fall 2016

    Photography Credits: Ashley Duke, Faith Photography Resources: Listings at End of Tour W E L C O M E! It’s that time of year again! Time to peruse all of the details of a decorated farmhouse. Before it gets covered in muck boots, farm-wear, and the aspects of a farm that don’t need to be highlighted…

  • Mini Christmas Farmhouse Tour 2015

    Mini Christmas Farmhouse Tour 2015

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Truly. Christmas to me means so many things. This season just warms my heart. Celebrating the birth of our Savior, Christmas Eve service at my church, parties with family & friends, musicals at church, Christmas music. The wood stove burning, cookies baking, pot roast in the crock,…

  • Trip to the Southern Living Idea House 2015

    Yesterday, a bunch of girlfriends and I got to take a much needed, and albeit rare, break from life and mommyhood to do a girls’ day. It has been hard to get together lately, so I was completely overjoyed when I was able to pull a few of them away from their busy lives just to…

  • Fall Farmhouse Tour 2015

    Fall Farmhouse Tour 2015

    I LOVE house tours. It is one of my most favorite things to do. Especially the ones coated in fall colors, sights, and sounds. I can just smell the Home Sweet Home scent by Yankee Candle, can’t you?!?!?