Garden

If you follow me on Instagram, you are not a stranger to one of my favorite drinks of late (cheers to you, Lizzy and Hannah!).  I love citrus because it makes me happy and relaxed.  It doesn’t hurt that the colors are just lovely.  I started making this drink because I saw my friend post ...

One of my very favorite things to see in creation are plants growing from little tiny seeds.  I love the way the little seedlings grow and stretch their little “arms” toward the sky, as if they have just awakened from the best nap EVER. Jesus uses the example of a mustard seed here in Mark 4:30… And ...

Easy Meals. I get asked A LOT about some easy and quick meal ideas.  Those two words mean something different to each person because there is no way I could cook you the dinner you might be picturing in the time it takes you to go through a drive-thru.  However, clearly if you read my blog you ...

  Craziness!  It’s already been a year!  The official time I started my blog was actually back in August of 2010, but I wanted to get things just right on the design end before posting.  It’s kind-of a joke when I think of it now because it was FAR from nice and my posts were pretty sad-looking.  ...

Chalkboard paint is not a recent original idea, but getting/making the paint, taking the supplies out, and deciding what not to paint how many things to paint is the hard part.  The pots below I had sponge painted when I was first married (8.5 years ago) back when sponging was trendy in the craft world…or ...

1. Honeycomb Earrings from oliveandcocoa.com that I love so very much. 2. Goat’s milk caramels’ from happygoat.com.  These are awesome. Truly. 3. Adorable wicker backpack for picking apples on the weekend or as a very expensive toy picker-upper.  brookfarmgeneralstore.com 4.Madeline Weinrib makes amazing textiles…that is no secret.  madelineweinrib.com 5. Super-cute and cozy looking sweater-cuff boots from urbanoutfitters.com 6. How perfect ...

Just a little of what’s happening before the winter plantings.  I had fun this year with the garden and at the same time I had the most pests, especially the 2 year-old kind.  This was the year with the most expansion and I’m excited to plant more trees next spring!  There have been so many ...

We were blessed with many figs this year.  I LOVE the texture of fresh figs.  The very thing that I love most, the seeds, is often what people don’t like about them.  I had already made drunken fig jam last year and some regular fig jam as well, so I wanted to make something where ...

I am so glad to be done with termites…for now anyway.  We have had these crazy creatures in our house bugging us since we first saw their first “kick-outs” right after we moved in to our house 2 1/2 years ago.  You see, our house was supposed to be tented before we moved in but ...

We’ve been super busy around here and although I’ve still been making regular meals, I haven’t had any time for projects.  These jars are an easy way to enjoy the strawberry season and not let it pass you by.  Alcohol and vinegar both allow you to throw whatever you want in without worrying about it ...