Nicole Genthe Smith and I go all the way back to middle school when we both had unfortunate haircuts and styles of clothes. We parted ways in high school, though I remember watching her fondly from afar at cheerleading competitions. See, she was on the WISCO team which pretty much blew everyone else out of […]
Happy Saturday, friends! I’m excited to share a new page here on the site. “Classes” is where you can find all the details about rubber harvesting in the Congo… (Sorry, just had to check how awake you are today…) I plan on teaching a full schedule up through the end of the year, so continue […]
Tis the season for apple picking! My Facebook feed is bogged down with beautiful pictures of adorable families picking apples and pumpkins at local farms. So cute! So perfect for photo ops, but what do you do with a bushel of apples once you get home? I ended up with about four dozen usable apples […]
A couple of weeks ago, this article about styling bookshelves stumbled into my Bloglovin’ newsfeed. This weekend, I saw this from A Beautiful Mess about Candy Vanilla Milkshakes. Really? Vanilla milkshakes aren’t good enough? A bookshelf stuffed to the gills with family photos and good books just doesn’t cut the mustard? Nope, not when you’ve been a […]
I’ve never been a huge fan of pills. (Please see The Great Sink Incident of 1994 where my dad made me drink gallons upon gallons of water in an effort to swallow a pill without chewing it. P.S. It didn’t work. I still have to bite into anything bigger than an Advil.) It can’t only be […]