lisa rippy

Now that I’m 55 years old, I read a devotional like the one below with such eager spiritual eyes. Now that I’m a grandmother, and with many young wives and mothers now divinely placed in my life, being the ‘older woman’ that Paul instructs is so very important. If you…

Last year, Rip and I started a new Christmas tradition. We had completed a 3-year remodeling journey with our home, and it was time to swing open the doors and invite people in! And at Christmas most of all! So, the weekend before the week of Christmas, we invited all…

ORDER IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!! Rip and I made something similar to these Personalized Scripture Cards in 2020, and since then we both realized something … that as wonderful as it is to share Scripture, the truth is this – it’s the work of the Holy Spirit that is necessary…

Fall is here, and that means the holidays, and some cold winter months, will be here soon. Have you ever wished you had a check-list of sorts that would help you get all of your home, inside and out, ready for the holidays? Ready for guests? Ready for celebrations? And…

Welcome to our family room! However, this photo was taken after moving into our little farmhouse in 2018, and we had been ‘making it home’ for only a year and a half. Standing inside our home and looking into this space made us both so, so grateful – we always…

It was one of the greatest nights for Rip and I last night and here’s why … we both were home early enough for us to do some “home-keeping” around the house. We were able to keep to our needed chores that living on 4+ acres requires and simply ‘put…

Rip and I have a wonderful client, (and she’s quickly become a dear friend!), who asked us to help her with some interior and exterior projects for her new home. Once we had the initial walk through, Rip and I were both ready to get started. One of the projects…

Since the mid 1990’s, I’ve treasured the devotional book, “Morning and Evening” by Charles Hadden Spurgeon. As Spurgeon himself has written, this is how the LORD has used this one book in my life … “My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a…

A question I’ve been asked from time to time is, “Can I mix blues with greens, or greens with grays when I’m decorating a room?” And that’s when I love to take them by the hand, walk with them outside and ask, “What do you think?” (smile)  It’s also when…