Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo 1776 My Strength Is My Story with Victoria Duerstock, Heart and Home for Christmas
With the holidays around the corner, celebrate joy in your living space with Victoria Duerstock. She shares devotions and holiday decorating tips which will encourage, inspire, and captivate your heart and home for Christmas.
Victoria Duerstock: A wife of twenty-three year and mother to three children.
Her mission is to intentionally seek to inspire hope and ignite bigger dreams for God's purpose in each of our stories.
Victoria has a Master's degree in Music but found herself in the furniture industry.
She is a writer, blogger, teacher, speaker, and contributor at Worthy Devotions.
Victoria connects the basic principles of Christian living with the basic principles of interior design.
"Christmas brings warmth in the middle of a season, because of the way we can decorate, the lighting, all the different things that go into it." ~ Victoria Duerstock
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Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including holiday expectations, Australia, design principles, and navy blue kitchen cabinets, plus so much more.
- Inspiration
- Joy
- Growing Up
- Love of music
- First-year of marriage
- Christmas
- Memories
- Australia
- Overwhelm & stress
- Holiday expectations
- Overspending time & money
- Daily time with the Lord
- Focus
- Block your time
- Design Principles
- Balance
- Tabernacle
- Grace
- Lights
- Beyond Christmas
- Christmas Ornaments
- Pajamas
- Contributors
- Mary's Story
- Christmas year-round
- Family time
- The Design Twins (Julie and Jodie)
- What's trending?
- Kitchen update
- Clutter
- Coffee Table
- Encouragement
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BOOK: Heart & Home for Christmas
"Balance is always the hard part, whether we're talking about how we live our daily life or how we're gonna decorate. Balance is always a challenge." ~ Victoria Duerstock
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Quotes and statements within the interview:
"It's definitely meant to be inspiring not discouraging."
"But my joy is always rooted in the fact that I've been saved by grace, my place is with Jesus Christ alone. And then my family brings me joy here on earth."
"My true joy is always present. It's not something that will reverse. And that's what brings me peace."
"Growing up was very quiet."
"I've actually been told that I would likely never have children."
"There's a very real possibility and probability we thought that there may not be children in my future."
"I only quit one time."
"And so within that first year of marriage, we knocked out not only expecting a new baby, bt also going to work for my husband."
"God was working on me early on and taught me a lot of lessons that I'm grateful for."
"The memories that we make during that time are so special and they last all year round."
"That's one that sticks in my mind with just being so hot at Christmas."
"I think we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to perform a certain way or to meet expectations that either we've set up for ourselves or that we think others have for us."
"But I find that if I don't spend the time with the Lord, then it's easier to not spend it the next day, and then it's kind of a trickle-down effect."
"The second thing I really like to do, especially around the season, is to block off some time."
"The principles of balance, of writing and harmony, focal point .... All of those things come into play."
"I think that we just tend to put too much pressure on ourselves to do ALL of it."
"I need to do something drastic in order to keep my priorities in the right place."
"At Christmas time, I love just getting up, plugging in the lights, and just being in that calm and that quiet of the morning, and having those lights."
"Christmas lights add to the mood."
"The biggest one that we always did and it just so turned out that my husband and his family did it as well. It wasn't totally unique to our family, but we always opened a gift on Christmas Eve."
"Her home is just a feast for the eyes when you walk in."
"Being able to take joy in His creation and see Him everywhere -- His fingerprints everywhere."
"I think that's hard, isn't it? Because tragedy happens all the time."
"So at the end of the day, the greatest encouragement I can give is that there's more to the story and the gospel is truth."
"If you kind of watch the fashion industry, the home furnishings are gonna kind of follow behind."
"If we can get rid of the clutter, get some fresh plants in,I mean, it's just going to change everything."
What has your story gifted you?
- Grace
- Peace
"My story has so many twists and turns."
"Even though I don't know how the rest of the story is going to go, I know I can keep walking it and wait for the adventure that's going to unfold."
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/vduerstock
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VDuerstock/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vduerstock/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/vduerstock/
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