Heart & Home: Design Basics for Your Soul and Living Space plus a giveaway #heartandhomebooks @heartandhomebooks @abingdonpressbooks #sponsored

I always grew up with the notion that the home is close to your heart. My mom insisted on our home being tidy and organized and as a busy mama I can't agree more. Your home is everything! Things need to be beautiful and designed in a way that feeds your soul. This beautiful devotional book makes a clear connection between the essentials of interior design and scripture that truly encourages our hearts to be joyful and happy. It makes complete sense to me. 

The book is a short devotional that has 90 days of considerations for personal growth. The spring is a perfect time for renewal and who doesn't want to have a captivating home and heart? Victoria makes it simple with beautiful devotionals and simple design tips to make you feel joyful each day. These are not complicated ideas and even a busy mama can take advantage of them. The pictures are gorgeous with deep, saturated colors and clean designs. The devotionals inspire women to have a captivating heart and home with just a few little tips and changes here and there. The topics include key ideas like unity and harmony. So simple but critical. You begin to consider functional ideas like flow and creating a focal point. Victoria shares thoughts about balance and negative space. All these ideas help to create a beautiful and relaxing environment which can translate to more daily joy. Isn't that what we all want? 

If you are excited about this book, take a sneak peek at what is coming up soon. It is hard to think about Christmas with summer on the way but put a bookmark in your planner because you don't want to miss this one! Get ready and plan ahead for Victoria's next book just in time for the Christmas holiday. What could be a more special gift to yourself or for a friend than Heart & Home FOR CHRISTMAS? This book will be a beautiful way to celebrate joy in your living space during a most special and sacred time of year. The book will be just the thing to add more joy and peace to your home. 

Victoria Duerstock is a writer, blogger, teacher, and speaker. Her mission is to inspire hope and ignite bigger dreams for God’s purpose in each of our stories. She has a master’s degree in music, but ended up working in the furniture industry for more than twenty years and loves to make connections between our home environments and our spiritual lives. Victoria writes at Encouraging Women Today, Everything’s Gravy, Creative Corner, and Serious Writer Academy and also has contributed to devotionals for Worthy. She lives in Nesbit, Mississippi, with her husband, and they have three children. Learn more about Victoria at: www.victoriaduerstock.com Follow her on Facebook, www.facebook.com/VDuerstock Twitter https://twitter.com/vduerstock and Instagram www.instagram.com/vduerstock www.instagram.com/heartandhomebooks.

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Don't Miss it! Apollo 11 IMAX is in theatres now! #apollo11 #sponsored #FlyBy @flybypromotions

Apollo 11 The IMAX Experience is in theatres now!

If you are a fan of space travel or just love history, this movie is a must see.  Apollo 11 features never before seen large format footage of the historical mission to land on the moon led by Commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. This movie is truly cinematic event that was 50 years in the making,  This is a movie that should only be experienced on the big screen.

Apollo 11 is told in the present tense so you actually feel like you are there experiencing everything in real time. This isn't what you would expect with all the typical historical interviews and nonsense. You don't see old movie clips. You actually experience the whole Apollo 11 mission itself. Wait till you see the rows and rows of techs sitting at ancient computer screens. The reality is that these were the state of the art at the time. It's like you took a step back in time and it is totally fascinating on the big screen. Todd Douglas Miller directs the movie and you will be impressed with how it was played out.


You hear Walter Cronkite in the background on and off throughout the movie along with the NASA techs and announcers speaking into these enormous headsets. It is so transformative to keep hearing that voice from beyond. You see these fantastic images of the liftoff, the landing and the departure from the surface of the moon and you become transfixed.  The moments are so thrilling even this many years later including that descent back through the Earth's atmosphere. You might find youself holding your breath. 


Apollo 11 is a must see for anyone that loves history, space or just a well directed movie about a fantastic event. You  will be wowed by the way Miller directed the movie with these startlingly vivid images in living color and how history unfolds before your eyes. You will feel transported to another time, almost like one of the lucky spectators in the parking lot watching the liftoff and landing. Get to the theater before it is gone.

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Mamas Jewelry has beautiful gifts for all the women in your life plus a holiday special offer now @usfg #sponsored

Christmas is almost here and you know you need to find just the right gift for that someone special in your life. Jewelry is always an elegant option, but it is hard to find something that really feels like it was crafted for your special someone. If you are looking for a creative and beautiful piece of jewelry you want to visit Mamas Jewelry. They have some of the finest jewelry and the most adorable charms you have ever seen at reasonable prices.

There are several important things to consider when shopping for fine jewelry. Mamas Jewelry has you covered with their Mamas Jewelry Advantage. What is the Mama's Jewelry Advantage? They are a true family operated business born out of a passion for creating jewelry from gold, sterling silver, platinum and diamonds. They really care about your comfort and satisfaction and how secure your diamonds and gems are set.

They are so proud of each piece of jewelry in their store they provide their customers with a lifetime warranty on any piece of jewelry they buy. Can you believe that! With that culture in mind, they developed Mama's Jewelry. Every piece is unique and was created with a great deal of consideration for how it will look and feel to a customer. So much thought goes into the process of designing all their rings, pendants and bracelets. Mama's Jewelry want to hear that "wow" factor when the customer receives their jewelry. They hear it time and again and love to hear it over and over. Mama's Jewelry always delivers 110% so their customers love their fine pieces.

There are key factors to consider when buying a piece of jewelry to ensure you are getting a quality piece that will last many years. Factors include, shank thickness, prong quality, the quality of the stones and the setting. No one provides our customers with the level of attention to detail like Mama's Jewelry does. They have over 2100 positive reviews on eBay and thousands of excellent reviews on Amazon.They have provided tens of thousands pieces to happy customers without any complaint. It is clear that Mama's Jewelry love creating joy and and wants to share it with customers everywhere. Their passion is evident in every piece they offer.

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Ellie Claire Journals Review #2 -the ideal gift for anyone that enjoys the beauty of words @EllieClaireGifts #EllieClaireGifts #sponsored

How did this year go by so fast? It seems like I say that every year but  I love this time of  so much with the beauty in the change of the season and all the festivities. Decorations galore with sparkles and glitter are my favorite thing. I love to bake and shop so what could be better than December?  I literally hoard vacation time from work so I can savor the season. I enjoy finding special gifts like these journals for all my friends and family to show them how much joy they bring to my life. Everyone needs time to themselves and whether it is journaling, meditation or some combination of them it is so calming and grounding. Journals and lettering books are a wonderful gift for anyone with a creative spark.  They let you wind down and really meditate on your special bible verses, inspirational quotes or plans for your upcoming days. I recently was introduced to Ellie Claire and all their beautiful journals and lettering books. You have never seen anything like these. The colors and designs are just gorgeous. The covers are bound with ultra thick and high quality paper. Each one has special embellishments like foil and nailhead designs. These journals and books are truly filled with inspirational quotes that inspire creativity for anyone and everyone.

The 365 Day Devotional Journals are crafted with the ultimate in quality paper. You can feel it as you turn the pages.  The style and the quotes in each books fit so nicely together. Each one has quotes for each day to give you something important to consider. There is plenty of blank space for your own art, quotes and thoughts too. I love that there are meaningful quotes throughout each of the books to bolster your mind and soul on a daily basis. What a wonderful way to create beauty and inspiration for your life. You can use these beautiful books to practice your Bible journaling or to note meaningful verses to look back on over time. You can decorate a page with your own plans and ideas for life or make notes about how the quote inspired you to act or think that day. If you are new to journaling or have been doing it for years, either way these books are perfect for you.

When you see the quality of the journals and the paper inside you will be grateful you were blessed to find them for yourself and for friends. I tested a variety of colored markers and pens and you can not see any bleed-through from page to page. You turn the page and each one has new inspiration of joy and thought.  What a rewarding way to grow your mind and heart in a beautiful way. There are so many inspirational passages in the journals that really were so meaningful to me. In the Peace begins with Me Devotional Journal, I loved the Romans 12:16 "Get along with each other; don't be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don't be the great somebody." Wow, that is so beautiful and perfect for the world today.  In The Earth is the Lord's and Everything in It Devotional Journal, the passage from Hebrews 11:8 captured my attention, "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going." So simple but so meaningful and true that sometimes you have to just follow the path that is given you in faith..

These journals are a wonderful way to give time to yourself on a daily basis. Everyone needs that. Keep going to the gym, knitting or reading a great book but take time to choose another meaningful thing for yourself with one of these journals for 2019. You can work on them for fifteen minutes or an hour as you have time. Each devotional journal even has a placekeeping band so you can open to the very next day each time.

You can find each of the journals on online at B+N or Amazon so shopping cannot be easier for all the creative people in your life. Christmas is almost here and I can't think of a more beautiful gift to share. This is such a joyful gift to give to a friend from church or anyone that loves to create.

The Earth Is the Lord's and Everything In It
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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
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Peace begins with Me
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe would be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."