220. Inspiration for the Homemaker: Creativity, Contentment, and Growth | Andrea of Pine and Prospect Home

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

I love sharing about what I am doing in my home as a homemaker – the meals I’m cooking, the decor I’m bringing in, the systems I’m maintaining – but this episode goes even deeper into homemaking. I am chatting with my friend and fellow blogger Andrea about the heart behind our homemaking pursuits. As wives and mothers who have been learning and loving homemaking for well over a decade, we want to encourage you to see the beauty and creativity and opportunities that are available to you as a homemaker. May this episode empower you to reject negative depictions of homemaking and to fully embrace the powerful calling of caring for your home and family.

In this episode, we cover:

Andrea’s journey into creating a home decor blog and where she is headed now
All about the incredible resource Andrea has created to mentor homemakers
Exploring the creativity available to us as homemakers
Keeping inspiration and beauty in your home during bleak winter months
The challenge of comparison and discontentment in our connected world
Acknowledging the uncomfortable truth about time management
Breaking out of overwhelm and growing your homemaking skills little by little

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ABOUT ANDREA

Andrea Francavilla married her high school sweetheart and moved back to her hometown where she purchased the home that she used to clean as a high school senior. Ten years and four boys later, Andrea and her husband Mike have worked hard to restore their 1930’s cottage on a very small budget. Andrea started her blog in 2017 to inspire and encourage others with the idea that any house can be a beautiful home, no matter the size or budget.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Andrea’s The Heart of Homemaking course

CONNECT

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Homemaking really just provides this freedom almost.
0:04.0	There are just things that I have skills that I have developed as a homemaker
0:07.7	that I never in a million years like 10 or 12 years ago would have thought
0:11.4	that I would have been able to pursue. But I love the fact
0:15.5	that homemaking like gives us that opportunity. It just provides so much creative freedom.
0:20.8	My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and
0:25.1	YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for
0:29.2	creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:37.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today I'm having on my friend Andrea from Pine and Prospect Home.
0:46.8	We're going to talk about homemaking some of the distractions that people that mothers and homemakers can face, especially in this modern world.
0:57.0	Some of our ways that we like to overcome those, winter homemaking, trying to make things beautiful in the middle of the mundane, some budget decorating.
1:06.2	Andrea is a great source for that over on her website, Pine and Prospect Home.com and her YouTube channel and her Instagram all by the same name. So she is definitely
1:15.8	a wealth of knowledge and information and I think you're going to really enjoy this discussion.
1:19.7	Andrea, thank you so much for joining me.
1:22.8	Andrea is a real life friend of mine.
1:24.4	We've had the opportunity to hang out multiple times in real life.
1:28.0	I've been to her house, she's been to my house.
1:30.1	We're just chatting before that there's no snow right now in Michigan, which is really weird for her.
1:37.0	And so she's understanding what the rest of us who live, like lower, understand about winter and how ugly it is because it's all brown so we can get
1:44.9	into that too like how you're keeping your spirit alive as a homemaker through this so let's
1:50.6	start with introductions for those who don't know you. Tell us about you in your blog and your homemaking course and your YouTube channel and all that good stuff.
1:57.4	Thank you for having me, Lisa. I really appreciate it. I love being on here with you.
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