What if every time you made a purchase, your dollars could also make a difference in the lives of others? When I started this little blog of mine a year ago, Design Style Purpose morphed out of my desire to document our ongoing remodel in taking our 70s chic fixer upper to a beautiful modern suburban farmhouse. I knew when I started Design Style Purpose, that regardless of what type of design, what type of style, that I wanted it all to have PURPOSE. I didn't want to be that category of ...
Meals On The Go: Choosing Healthy Choices for Families
Don't you ever just wish someone would tell you what to make for dinner? Or your family is in a rut, and you could borrow another mom's brain to see what she feeds her family? Well I've got the answer for you! Anyone else in the thick of Spring sports season? Unlike other times of the year, for whatever reason, Spring sports usually mean the entire family is at the baseball field for each and every game, which means we're doing dinner on the go at least 2-3 nights a week due to sports ...
Don't you ever just wish someone would tell you what to make for dinner? Or your family is in a rut, and you could borrow another mom's brain to see what she feeds her family? Well I've got the answer for you!
Stay at Home Moms and Career Moms: Stop the Competition, We’re All Working!
I recently put my heels back on for a quick contract stint in the business world. As a full time stay-at-home-mom, being able to keep one tiny pinky toe in the door to the modern working world has been life-giving to me since I took the job about six years ago. Twice a year, I put on "fancy clothes" as my kids call them, grab my tote bag with my laptop in hand, and head out the door. I leave before they go to school, I enjoy a couple of scheduled breaks and an hour long catered lunch, and I ...
Career Mom vs. Working Mom - which one is better and who works harder?
To the Mom Who Lost Her Sh*t Today
I've been saying I'm in a hard season of motherhood for about...well, 8 years now, which is the exact total of how long I have been a mom. Every night, I lay in bed exhausted and thankful that my most favorite part of the day has finally arrived: SLEEP. But I quickly become energized when I scroll pictures of my littles on my phone vowing that tomorrow I am going to do a better job, and get it right. Yes, tomorrow will be the day that I will be the mom that I always wanted to be. You ...
Creating Home: Gallery Wall In the Dining Room
One of my favorite interior designers, Kristen over at LifeStyledCo, regularly creates a gallery wall moment in each of her projects and I decided that the inspiration was finally in need a home here too. This is not a how-to blog post, because: You wouldn't want to do things how I do them because I am not a perfectionist and my husband usually has to go in behind and me adjust all nail holes and frames #okayest Just Google someone else's tutorial on best practices for gallery walls ...
Taking Rejection Out of The Driver’s Seat: Learning to Persevere in the Face of Rejection
"I hate you!" "I'm not going to be your best friend anymore!" If you've mothered children older than the age of two, you've most likely heard these statements at least once or twice. As the children get older, it might be accompanied by slamming doors, throwing of nearby objects, or the latest to happen in our house - one just straight up walked out of the house and "ran away" (a neighbor texted us shortly thereafter and said she found him wandering the neighborhood admitting he had "run ...