What visual has God showed you lately that He is near you? Share it in the comments 👇🏽

Refuse to be CUT DOWN! 🙌

Seeing these 3 blades of grass standing tall on their own in a sea of sod this morning; made me think of my 3 girls and the responsibility and privilege we have as parents to raise up our children in this challenging generation.

Parents & Grandparents, We can do it with Gods help, power & persistent prayer upon their lives. Precept upon precept.

“For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29:11‬ ‭‬

I love that God often speaks to me in visual life lessons.. How does He speak to you? Do share one of your last experiences in the comments below 👇🏽

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Make it a creative clean day!

Arlene Booth

Purge that PILE!

Do you have THAT PILE of STUFF that just sits somewhere? You think you’re going to use it “one day”. You think it’s all important stuff, but you think you don’t have the time to separate it all out and find the proper “homes” for it all..

Well let me introduce you to the POWER OF THE TIMER! I shared this tip with a friend last year and did it WITH HER at the same time … she was sharing how she had a few piles here & there and was overwhelmed that she had wall to wall messes in her home and just didn’t know where to start, so I said, “Let’s grab some bags and set the timer!”

So we both set the 15 minute timer and decluttered ONE SMALL AREA! I tackled this corner behind my couch that had been piling up with stuff to go in the garage and outgrown kids clothes. 15 minutes later I was taking a tote to the van for the thrift store rather than shucking it to my garage 😃

I dare you to give this a try and Comment below 👇🏻 how it went for you 😄👏🏻👏🏻

If you need any support you can find me and many other women ready to cheer you on inside the Creative Homemakers Club!! The doors are open TODAY!! 🙌😍

Be a patron of our New Launching Creative Homemaker Community here!

Think a second…what item(s) around your house best describes your Mother?

(I’d Love to hear your answer in the comments! 👇🏽)

Saturday I had this idea to use the antique tea cart mom gave me as a place to display just a few occupations & talents God has given my mother and mother in law… (although I’m not sure how I forgot the coffee cup 😂)

From cleaning/sewing 🧵 🪡 to bookkeeping/accounting 🧾 to tea & coffee parties 🫖 ☕️

~ HomeMAKING and Motherhood IS a beautiful blessed calling and I’m grateful to always be learning from these women of God!!

🌷My eldest daughter Kalena drew the chalk board verse : “Many women do noble things but you surpass them all.” Proverbs 31:29

#blessedandhighlyfavored🙏 #mothersdayquotes #lovingmother #mothersday #teacart #antiques #teaparties #callherblessed #coffeetime #sewing

Doors Are OPEN to the Creative HomeMakers Club!

📣Can’t wait to mail these Gratitude beauties!! Only 4 DAYS LEFT! ✨ then the Doors to the Creative HomeMakers Club WILL CLOSE until it opens again for just 2 short days in December!

Dear HomeMaker ~ you MAKE or BREAK your home. Do you journal much? I’m being honest, I havn’t in years! And it’s TIME again! Starting November 28 we start a Weekly Community art journaling via zoom with the intention of praying & praising our creator – the God of all things creative! You will LOVE this Amazing community of women intentionally being purposeful with Cleaning, Crafts and Cooking tips, events, contests and even pARTeas!

We believe our community will launch you into a new year of JOYFULLY caring for, loving and teaching your family the old fashioned creative beautiful basics with God being the head of our homes.

Prepare NOW for we will need each other to sail life’s storms coming our way!! What is your God-given talent that we need to know about? Our HomeMakers Club is waiting for you!

See you on the other side!

Click here https://CreativeHomeMakers.now.site for the November Early Black Friday special & how to receive your copy of this Gratitude Prayer & Praise Journal Gift!

#homemaker #creativemoms #creativelife #cleanliving #creativecleanliving #cooking #cleaning #crafting #diyfun #diylady #Godfirst #girlmom #creativegals #artjournal #prayerjournal #praisejournal #creativejournalling #creativejournal #parteaswithpurpose #housecleaningfun #cookingfun #bakingfun #cookwithkids #gardeningfun #growfood #preparedness #sustainableliving

🫖Do you have a Daughter(s) who loves ART + Tea Parties? 🎨☕️ it’s time for a pARTea with Purpose!

My daughter Natalie is EXCITED to GIVE AWAY this DIY Cinderella Harvest Pumpkin 8×10 Paint Kit tomorrow at 1:00 Est!! 🎁

It’s not too late to get in the drawing!! 🎟

Make sure you Register In this link to be entered!
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼✨✨✨🎁🎁🎁
https://parteasintheknow.now.site

Then Meet us LIVE in the group tomorrow at 1:00pm eastern!!

IF you are not on FB, it’s ok! It will still keep you in the loop for future zoom pARTea workshops for you and your daughter 😊 plus holiday offers around the corner!! (Ppssstt a pARTea coming soon!!)

parteatime #parteaswithpurpose #creativecleanliving #momnmetime #paintwithme #parteas #pumpkinpainting #fallvibes #cinderellastorytime

It’s Fall GIVEAWAY Time!!

Hello Creatives!!
To Enter this Drawing for a FREE Harvest Paint Kit like this one: Click here👇🏼
https://parteasintheknow.now.site

Then comment below “I’m In” under the pinned post of the free group! (Button takes you there)

Next SET YOUR ALARMS ⏰
to JOIN ME LIVE for the Drawing reveal this Saturday 10/9 at 1:00pm EST + BE THE 1st to Hear a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

Christmas is LESS than 4 months away now! 😳

Are you excited to entertain, bake, paint, diy, craft and do “all the creative things” this holiday season?

Or does that sound overwhelming because you still have a list of home CleanOuts and Declutter projects you did not finish over summer? 😬

I’m WITH YA!! 🤗 Here’s where I’m at right now!

Believe it or not, there’s a growing mighty community of Homemakers THAT GET YOU, so
NO! YOU ARE NOT ALONE when it comes to wearing “all the homemaker hats” and not having a Pinterest-perfect house.

❤️We are waiting to support you!
❤️We will share in your struggles.
❤️We offer strength when you are weak. 🙏🏽
❤️We will CELEBRATE YOUR project WINS! 💚

You know that verse that declares, “when 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them?” Yep! That one works!!! 🤩And God CARES about the shape of our homes as much as our hearts because HE WANTS TO LIVE IN BOTH ✨✨

Friends, The Doors are OPEN to HomeMaker’s Creative CleanOut Club NOW
BUT
THEY CLOSE TIGHT -> TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT 🕛 so I can focus on supporting new & existing members as we together get productive in our homes!!

📣NOTE: The Membership will NOT ReOpen its doors again until January 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣‼️
Psssttt: and the price may go up ⬆️ 😅

Yes! Accountability works with housework too!
👉🏼 See before/after stories here: https://HomemakersCreativeCleanout.now.site

If you have concerns, or questions- Pm me 🤗

I know this idea of ‘paying for accountability’ is something foreign to some – but be honest. You know what you are like without it. And if we pay 💰 for something, we tend to value it more. 💚

Get real with yourself today! Ask yourself if you can be willing to give up a cup of coffee a month and trade it in for PRICELESS support, accountability, celebration, and so much more!!

You will be warmly welcomed on the other side: https://HomemakersCreativeCleanout.now.site

Feeling Overwhelmed is NOT a God-given feeling…

the enemy would love for us to feel overwhelmed – DAILY- about our homes, our workload, our health, our goals, our past, our progress…

Yesterday I woke in the middle of the early morning hours, unable to go back to sleep so I started praying for ladies in my homemakers group, and the new ones that will be a part soon.

I prayed for loved ones & friends who are fighting for their lives with covid & I prayed for the new school year concerns of my little family …

I got up and started looking up verses on PEACE and this one stood out to me because I basically forgot it was a verse!!

I remember Corrie Ten Boom making Psalm 32:7 her key verse of prayer & promise when she was in the concentration camps. (Read her amazing book “The Hiding Place”) 😊

This verse, “You are my HIDING PLACE; You will PROTECT me from trouble and SURROUND me with songs of DELIVERANCE.” (I love capping the words that stand out to me! 😉 let your mind dwell & think about what each capitalized word means to you.

I am SO thankful for this reminder that we can REST today in that our Good GOOD Father will PROTECT us from trouble & more trouble even when we feel like we are in the midst of troubles!! I’m thankful for the “surround sound” of songs, of blessings, of scripture and of prayer that we can CHOOSE to fill our day with!

Just knowing that He has an escape plan in mind for us is enough to Rest our weary minds & hearts from the overwhelming thoughts & fears the enemy would love to keep us dwelling on!

The verse says “He WILL surround you with songs of deliverance” – so smile and wait for it if it hasn’t come yet. Let your spirit be AT PEACE. 💚

🙏🏽If you enjoy these

ThursdayThoughts & #homemakersprayers;

Then visit 👇🏽
https://creative-clean-living.now.site/home ->

HOME tab for Early Bird specials in the Homemakers Creative CleanOuts group. We are welcoming new Homemakers for Door Opening
Monday 8/16 and would love to have you a part of our community 💚

Make today a Creative Clean one!

ArleneBooth- LenaB 🤗

A Homemakers Prayer

#ThursdayThoughts

It’s July 1st. How are you feeling about summer?

Maybe you are Refreshed and Energized.. Your home has everything in its place. You love your job as a homemaker and love your part/full time streams of income you work hard to pull in.

You feed your family healthy meals & pay the bills…you have confidence there is a bright future because you are the Kings Daughter 👸🏼👸🏾

Or maybe you are feeling Overwhelmed with tasks at home.
Do you feel like you need a peaceful few days without the children, maybe secretly wishing they were back in school because every where you turn they mess up what you cleaned up and you’re constantly teaching them the value of their home yet you feel conflicted because you know you only have a few short summers till they grow up and leave the nest…

Maybe you wish you had a Fairy maid to do all your tasks so that you could just have more fun and play with your children 24/7 doing creative things like they want you to… 🧚🏽‍♀️

Believe it or not, I have understood ALL of the above emotions at different times 😅 so if you do too, guess what, you’re not alone! 🤗

Phillippiand 4:19 says “My God will meet all your needs. He will meet them in keeping with His wonderful riches. These riches come to you because you belong to Christ Jesus.”

So do you BELONG to Him? Have you given Him your heart? Has He forgiven you of your sins and things that you Know in your heart and conscience that would separate you from Him if you were to leave this earth today?

Life is so fleeting! Hearing of the collapsed apartment building in Miami last month, was so heartbreaking! I imagined that mama who was combing her child’s hair. That homemaker who was sweeping her floor. That teenager that was surfing the web watching things they shouldn’t have… we just never know when is our LAST BREATH of life to live.

Having that “Belonging feeling” from the God that created us is Priceless!!!

Understanding that “belongingness” is a PEACE that He lets us FEEL when we know our sins are forgiven and we are surrendered to His design & purpose for our lives – THAT is PRICELESS!!!

Do you have that peace? Don’t trade it in for trite things that don’t matter. (That will be another blog post) ❤️

So here’s our Homemaker challenge for today’s living:

Put your day in His Hands. Cast All your ‘needs’ at His feet.

How do you actually DO THAT?

Try this:

1. Journal down a list a “cares” that are bogging you down, overwhelming you or causing you to stress.

2. PRAY over it. Ask Gods forgiveness over the things that you know are wrong in your life. Ask God to take it all. 🙌🏼 He may not take it AWAY – (especially if it’s a tangible task like a messy kids closet that needs cleaned out!! 😬) but we can ask Him to give US strength to DO what’s on our list.

3. When your heart feels clean and refreshed (and it’s ok to cry it out too while you talk to him! He sees your tears and cares – plus tears are a way of refreshing)

4. So Rise Up beautiful Homemaker! Go DO one ☝️ thing with His presence surrounding you with strength. Turn on some praise music on the radio, cd or YouTube.

5. Stay Focused so you can cross that project or task off your list of cares…

6. Smile & Celebrate with a happy dance ( or fruit smoothie or ice cream) knowing God helped YOU get Creative and Live Clean TODAY!!

He knows what you NEED. If this post was something you needed to hear today, please leave me a comment below or share this blog with another homemaker friend. I love to hear your feedback & do reply!

It’s my desire to encourage women to keep on being creative in the everyday moments of living clean so that we can see Jesus’ face one day and hear him say “Well done my creative servant daughter. You were faithful when it was challenging . You were brave when it was scary. You were a warrior Princess when it was worth fighting. You loved as I loved. Well done.”

I’m praying you feel a place of validation & belonging. You are worth fighting for.

Xoxo LenaB

#Real Talk: I’m not that great with consistency in some areas of sharing Creative Clean Living on all the social platforms but I’m learning so much lately about the tech stuff. Id love if you would Check out my new website & Join my Mailing List for Homemakers: https://creative-clean-living.now.site/home Two are better than One! So maybe together we can accomplish more as a Homemaker! ❤️

Rewards & the Rewarder

What do you do when you’ve cleaned the whole house? When you’ve decorated the tree. When you’ve remodeled and it’s COMPLETE!? 😅👏👏

I love rewards and incentives. My kids do too! Even if it’s A big hug from my daughters thanking me for helping them do a much needed bedroom toy/clothing purge!! (Which has been SO needed lately 🤪)
This mama loves the de-cluttered feeling I get in my mind when something is finished and find a little joy of crossing it OFF a List! 🤩

November is the known “month of thanks” ~ although we should have a heart of gratefulness all throughout the year – even a “Rona year!!” Lol

But today’s verse brought light on the fact that I’m so thankful I have a Heavenly Father who truly exists!! I believe this NOT because of the REWARDS He gives me FOR believing Him, but because believing Him opens my eyes to His rewards we call blessings in this life.

The greatest reward will be Seeing Him face to face one day, and hearing him say ‘Well done my daughter” and feeling his strong arms embrace me. That is a reward I’m looking forward to one day! 🤗

Need a Creative Conversation for the Kids?
1. At dinner time, read this verse from Hebrews 11:6
2. Ask the children some of these questions to get the conversation started about God: How Do you know God exists? How do you feel Him in your day? How do you see Him around you? What Is the 5 letter word We should have that makes God happy? What does Faith mean? Google “Faith”. What kind of Rewards do you like at school, & at home? So what kind of rewards has God already given you? What rewards do you look forward to receiving from God one day? Write some down on a family chalkboard and see if any come true one month later.

Comment below how your family Creative Conversations went 🙂 I’d Love to hear your stories!