Cozy Finds From Our Home to Yours ⟶
Week Three was a very slow one for our One Room Challenge porch project. With a spring garden that desperately needed planting before the intense late-spring Florida heat sets in, we prioritized that project. But that’s not to say nothing happened! What exactly did we accomplish this week? For starters, my husband removed most of…
Salt may go good with any number of fresh roasted vegetables. But salt water is a definite no-go. This week, our big project was to bring fresh, untreated water up from our well and to our garden. I’ve got my husband pretty busy with our One Room Challenge project. I knew he was plenty capable…
My body may ache until my next birthday, and the blister on my right hand may never heal. But our garden beds are filled and ready for plants! One of the reasons I didn’t pursue my garden sooner was the fear that filling raised beds was going to be very expensive. And if you’re using…
It’s been about a month and a half since we built our dream garden. This week, we’re finally planting it out! Today, I wanted to share my garden plan. First, please know that in this season of gardening, I am learning. I will make a ton of naive, and probably wrong, choices. For most of…
The Completed You know how it’s always the most “boring” stuff that is typically the most important from a foundational standpoint? Well, this week in porch world, it was all about the foundation. It’s not super interesting. But it’s probably the most important. After excavating some long-standing camellias in our backyard a few weeks ago…
I grew up adoring books and the worlds found within them. Each summer, my mom would take us to the library to load up on books, and I always left with an absolute pile of them. I would stack them in the corner of my room, and pore over each one. The tiny bookcase in…