I tend to let mostly burned candles collect dust in a cabinet because it just feels too wasteful to throw them away, especially if they are in a beautiful vessel that could be reused or repurposed. I recently tested
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For what feels like the first time, I’m really savoring the slowness of midwinter. With the rush of the holidays behind us, I have been settling into what the rest of the natural world is doing; resting, reflecting and conserving energy for the coming year…
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By this time of year, most gardeners are ordering new seeds and getting the itch to sow them. While it’s still a bit early to start seeds indoors, there is a way to get a jumpstart on your gardening year now! I recently learned about winter sowing in plastic milk jugs. The milk jug acts as a miniature greenhouse…
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Selecting paint colors for your home can often be a frustrating process. For a new homeowner especially, it can be hard to know where to begin! While there’s no right or wrong answers here, over the past decade I’ve spent as a residential interior designer, I’ve found a few things to be true…
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Around 730 days ago, I was choosing my Word of the Year. A treasured practice I had observed for four or five odd years at that point; selecting a singular word to help illuminate and guide me through the coming twelve months. For 2020 I chose “Surrender”, which is so spot on it almost makes me laugh now. That lesson was coming for me, for all of us, whether we chose it or not…
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Our family has been big into maple syrup since we were given The Little House Picture Book Treasury two Christmases ago. Sugar Snow remains one of our most requested stories, so when I started thinking about a recipe to share with you this winter, the idea for these maple flavored scones popped into my head immediately…
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Presently is a little collection of my favorites things this season; simple joys and ideas worth sharing around the topic of living a more soulful, heart-centered life.
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