Cozy Finds From Our Home to Yours ⟶
April absolutely flew by. My head sort of feels like it’s spinning when I stop and really think about it all. We announced our entry into the One Room Challenge with our forthcoming porch build and have shared its progress weekly since then. For most of the month, we’ve shared the “messy middle” of this…
Yesterday, we finally got around to fully planting our spring garden. Talk about an absolute dream come true. This garden has been a stirring in my heart for years. My previous attempt at a garden was sort of an epic fail. Actually, as my dear friend said to me, there are no failures in the…
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…
Last fall, I turned the strip of yard abutting my reclaimed brick walkway into a gorgeous flower bed for my azaleas using the sheet mulching technique. Sheet mulching involves using cardboard to carve out previously grassy lawn space for a new flower bed. Simply, a gardener plants some new plants and then lays down cardboard…