Lifestyle

You don't have to live in your dream house to make your living spaces feel more like home. Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul. In Restoration House, author and designer Kennesha Buycks will encourage you to embrace your home and your story so you can create mindful spaces that give life to you, your loved ones, and all who enter.

Tips from Restoration House have been featured in Better Homes and Garden, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, and The Washington Post. Kennesha will teach you how to:

• Make the best out of your living space, whether you're renting or a homeowner
• Create a home your visitors will feel comfortable in
• Decorate your home on a budget
• Make purposeful design decisions that are beautiful and functional

Restoration House is ideal for:

• Christian women of all ages who want to make their houses feel more like home
• Housewarming gifts, Mother's Day, birthdays, and holiday gifting

Create beautiful memories for your family and friends with help from Katie Jacobs, a stylist for Reese Witherspoon's lifestyle brand Draper James. She reveals her secrets for throwing fantastic parties for any occasion, from a casual backyard movie night to a lavish holiday party.

The ultimate party hostess and styling pro, Katie shares her magical gift of making entertaining look effortless, and possible at the same time.

Using Katie’s inspiring ideas and make-ahead tips, you will be so organized that you can minimize the fuss, enjoy the time, and celebrate too!

In So Much To Celebrate, readers will:

• Become inspired to make the most out of every season through entertaining loved ones
• Remind you to craft experiences for family and friends that can be felt (and tasted), not just seen
• Discover a mix of tasty recipes, creative entertainment tips, and a heavy helping of nostalgia

Brimming with creative party themes for every season, inspiring décor ideas, and delicious recipes, So Much to Celebrate is the perfect book for anyone who appreciates good times, good food, and good celebrations.

Learn how to create a home that's inviting, beautiful, and uniquely you--all while staying on a budget. Whether you're decorating your first home, planning for renovations, or simply looking for an affordable refresh, She Made Herself a Home is the ideal home décor planner to help you tap into your creative side and instill the confidence you need to get started on those DIY projects.

Popular blogger Rachel Van Kluyve of Crate & Cottage, along with a community of other successful home décor bloggers, offers up simple design tips for those who want to create lovely, budget-friendly, intentional spaces for themselves and their families.

In She Made Herself a Home, Rachel will:

• Walk readers through a style quiz to determine if their style is modern, traditional, rustic, or eclectic
• Guide readers through selecting a color scheme
• Provide the best tips for choosing the right item(s) for your space
• Give insight on how to find great deals
• Offer easy-to-follow organization tips for every room

With ideas adaptable to any décor style, readers will learn:

• Must-have items for each room
• Easy steps to determine a layout that works for each individual's home
• How to determine the unique purpose of each space
• Simple DIY tactics to customize each space

You don't have to break the bank to bring new life and purpose into your home. With design expertise from Rachel and others, you can confidently take action to create the beautiful, peaceful home you've dreamed of.

Do you have a self-care action plan? Does your self-care routine need improvement? Equip yourself with the strategies and inspiration to take care of yourself--body, mind, and soul--with this 52-week guided journal.

The Weekly Self-Care Project offers thoughtful reflection prompts, inviting questions, beautiful watercolors, and stunning photography to guide you toward a deep contentment no matter your circumstances. With illustrated journaling pages, this 52-week journal:

• Includes ideas for taking care of yourself spiritually, physically, and emotionally
• Is highly adaptable, making it perfect for a beginner or someone with a solid faith foundation

Each week includes:

• Practical self-care ideas for everything from breathing with intention to memorizing Scripture to letting go of anxiety
• A biblical theme and verse for meditation
• Lists and ideas for pursuing contentment in your everyday life
• Journaling prompts and lines to help you cultivate habits of self-care

The Weekly Self-Care Project:

• Includes a lovely ribbon marker so you never lose your place
• Provides ample journaling space but easily fits on your nightstand or in a tote bag or gift basket
• Is an ideal companion for individual worship, Bible studies, small groups, and prayer partners
• Is a perfect gift for Mother's Day, birthdays, National Best Friend Day, holidays, or simply as an encouragement to yourself or a loved one to practice self-care

A continuation of the popular series that includes The Weekly Prayer Project, The Weekly Faith Project, and The Weekly Gratitude Project, this yearlong journal offers a welcome invitation to care for yourself so you can be all God created you to be.

It's never been more important to teach your children well.

What America needs today are parents w ho don’t just s ay they value these virtues but who live them and passionately and boldly teach them to their children. It’s up to me and you and every parent in America to make the necessary changes to give our children the opportunity to change the world. We do that by instilling good character traits in them so that they will be capable of being the adults our world needs.

—Korie Robertson

Many parents want to see positive character traits in their children but wonder how to instill them. As stars of the hit reality-TV show Duck Dynasty, Korie and Willie Robertson receive loads of letters and messages from fans asking how they’ve raised such good kids. As they will tell you, “it isn’t always easy, but raising kids with good character is possible.”

A straightforward, practical approach to parenting, Strong and Kind helps you identify the character traits you want to see in your children and gives you the tools for putting them in place. Besides strength and kindness other character

traits include:

• Self-Control
• Honesty
• Compassion
• Patience
• Joyfulness
• Loyalty
• Humility

By modeling positive traits, with confidence, consistency, creativity, unity, and in truth and love, you can increase the chances of your kids catching on. At the end of the day, the Duck Dynasty stars say the most important thing you can do for your children is what they do at the end of every episode: hand them over to God in prayer.