Faithgirlz! and Girls’ Life magazine team up with Redo Your Room, a fun new book girls nine to twelve (and possibly even their older sister!) will love to flip through again and again. Containing tons of fabulous room makeover ideas,Redo Your Room offers step-by-step instructions that help readers create a whole new look for their bedroom without breaking the piggy bank. Girls will be inspired by the creative, stylish, and resourceful tips as they discover their inner designer.

I have a teenage girl that is dying to redo her room at this exact moment. We’ve actually been talking about it for months, throwing ideas around. So when I saw this book up for review, I snatched it up.

I could tell as soon as I opened the book and turned the first page that my girl was going to love this book! Redo Your Room is a really awesome book that covers everything in your child’s room- furniture, study area, closet, walls and organizing their stuff! It has all sorts of easy DIYS for your room. I mean, hello, who doesn’t love a good DIY! It separates it all into sections: your desk, bed, closet, ect. It gives tips on how to clean your room, organize it and make it your own.

The book itself is a great size, very well made and it just jammed packed with happy colors and pictures. It’s just a fun book to read. This book gets you motivated to clean and start decorating! And I have the feeling it will inspire many craft store trips in the future.

This book was provided to me free of charge by Book Look in return for my honest review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

About the book:

Part devotional, part cookbook, all Shauna! 

Focusing on food, faith, and Shauna’s genuine, heartfelt voice, this devotional for women will be as comforting as a pan of homemade mac ‘n’ cheese on a cold winter’s night. 

Combining content from Bread and Wine, Cold Tangerines, and Bittersweet with takeaways, this devotional from Shauna Niequist speaks spiritual truths to women in easily digestible bites that are perfect any time of day. 

A foodie, gourmet cook, and master entertainer, Shauna writes about the beautiful and broken moments of everyday life-friendship, family, faith, food, marriage, love, babies, books, celebration, heartache, and all the other things that shape us, delight us, and reveal to us the heart of God.

If there are two things at the top of my favorites list, it would be reading and eating.  I mean, clearly y’all know I love me a good recipe {hello meal planning mondays} and a good book.  So when I saw a book up for review that encompassed both, I knew I had to review it!

When I first picked up Shauna’s book and started reading, I felt as if I was sitting with a friend having a chat over coffee.  Those are the types of books I love love love!  Down to earth, straight talk.  And this book sure doesn’t disappoint! She combines stories and scripture to create 365 devotional essays that are real while being eloquent, smart while having soul. She encourages women to slow down and savor the ordinary moments that comprise our everyday lives — those moments that are often overshadowed. Oh how I love that message! I think so many more of us women, wives and mothers could do with some slowing down and enjoying those little ordinary moments. {I feel a blog post coming on}

And, as women, we like pretty things right? Well hello gorgeous book! Oh my word. It’s gorgeous! This book is a bound linen hardcover featuring Lindsay Letters‘ work, and I think we can all agree that Lindsay Letters is kind of the best, right?  I’m sure a sucker for pretty calligraphy. The pages are sturdy and thick, and the layout is simple yet beautiful.  It’s a book you just want to pick up and hold and when you’re done, sit it on your coffee table for display.

 

Shauna Niequist is the author of Bread and Wine, Cold Tangerines and Bittersweet.  Shauna grew up in Barrington, Illinois, and then studied English and French literature at Westmont College in Santa Barbara.  As an author and blogger, Shauna writes about the beautiful and broken moments of everyday life – friendship, family, faith, food, marriage, love, babies, books, celebration, heartache and all the other things that shape us, delight us and reveal to us the heart of God.  Shauna is married to Aaron, who is a pianist and songwriter.  Aaron is a worship leader at Willow Creek and is recording a project called A New Liturgy.  Aaron and Shauna live outside Chicago with their sons Henry and Mac.

Perhaps you keep wishing your life were better than what you are currently experiencing now. What if more of God is actually what’s missing from your life? Do you encounter the freedom God brings each day? Whether it’s a messy life or a messy problem in your life, it can become a walking miracle when we see God anew and wholly surrender to Him.

You were made for more than surviving. Old stale religion never satisfies. Neither do the solutions the world has to offer. What all of us need is an encounter with God that reveals truth and sets our hearts ablaze. Tammie has seen this in her own life as well as in countless lives around her. Join her in More for a picture of how you can move from a life marked by messes to one that is truly miraculous.

I was thrilled when I was asked to review this book, especially since I relate so personally to the subtitle, “From Messes to Miracles”, in my own life. If there is a girl who can make a mess of her life in a hurry, it’s this one right here.

Tammie’s book is so truly inspiring. She shares her own experiences from her old messed-up life before encountering God and how blessed her new life is after bringing God into it. She has such amazing transparency about her past, her faith and her journey. Every single one of us has a story, our own journey, and they are all different. The only thing they need to have is common is that they all point to Jesus. She stresses the necessity of inviting God into all the messy places of our hearts so that He can bring about healing. Wide open hearts is where our encounter with God begins!

Here is a Q & A with Tammie, where she answers questions about her life and her book.

1. What do you want readers to learn from reading your book?  

I have written a Bible study called Duty or Delight: Knowing Where You Stand with God. I think that would be a great resource for digging deeper into more of a relationship with God.

You can also enter to win a copy as Icon Media has generously offered a FREE copy of the book to one of my readers. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will announce the winner on April 1st. Please don’t forget to share this review with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. You just might change a life!

TAMMIE HEAD is a Bible teacher, published author, and speaker. Rescued by God from a life in the sex industry, she works to spread the news that miracles still happen today. Tammie is married to her husband Erin, and the two have two daughters, Peyton and Sierra.