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chicken wire paper flowers i would much rather bake make or dig in the dirt than clean my house skip to content chicken wire paper flowers i would much rather bake make or dig in the dirt than clean my house menu home about canning and pickling classes published recipes wine the best laid plans really august 8 2025 leave a comment we have long had a master plan for how we wanted to reorganize the house it made sense to hold off on at least some of it until after edie girl graduated and moved into her own place the idea being that she would take some of the furniture with her that we hoped to replace with her graduating last may and moving into her new apartment last week the time had come to execute continue reading my latest thing december 15 2024 december 15 2024 4 comments i did a thing as the kids say these days continue reading it s all just a phase august 21 2024 august 21 2024 1 comment it s been a beat or two since i posted anything here it s not for lack of writing i just haven t liked anything i ve written well enough to post it so it goes continue reading a very scrappy holiday january 1 2024 january 1 2024 1 comment the theme for this year s handmade for the holidays gifts was using the stash with the exception of some necessary new items every handmade gift was made with something from my stash or sourced from the local creative reuse place the scrappy elephant continue reading this is 54 october 26 2023 5 comments i turned 54 yesterday birthdays seem like the perfect time to take stock of your life for no matter when they fall in the year they are the start of your personal new year it s a time to stop and celebrate being you only this year i didn t much feel like celebrating me i ve spent most of the last year spinning in a mid life crisis not at all sure what my place in the world is anymore i ve had a huge lapse in my self confidence the likes of which i m pretty sure i haven t gone through since high school and my teen angst days it s unnerving to say the least it s not just this empty nesting and menopause business that s had me spinning although they are both still factors it s been three years since edie girl went off to college you d think i d have figured out by now what i want to do with myself now that i don t have to focus on being a mom all the time and yet here i am continue reading things i ve made recently august 18 2023 4 comments it started last fall when i got the itch to overhaul my wardrobe i wanted to find a few basic patterns that i could use repeatedly for a uniform of sorts this resulted in my spending quite a bit of time perusing patterns online both the big four mccall s vogue butterick and simplicity and indie patterns so many indie patterns i didn t want a lot of components in the pattern as i m a lazy seamstress i m in awe of you who do these complicated beautiful garments but i much prefer something i can make in an afternoon and so after a lot of internet surfing and falling down some hashtag rabbit holes on instagram i ordered myself lotta jansdotter s everyday style continue reading gardening and lessons learned august 4 2023 august 4 2023 8 comments it s been a weird gardening year winter was so non existent that i went ahead and started putting my spring peas and lettuces in the ground in early february then after a warm dry march and april may was so cool that my summer garden went in late with my cucumbers not going in until mid june i didn t fully transition my spring to summer garden until the last week of july as i finally ripped out the last of the kale and planted field peas and since i was out there planting i went ahead and put some seeds in for a fall garden because why not if it s going to be all topsy turvy might as well go for broke right continue reading currently serving may 2 2023 4 comments confession i put my go to recipes here so that i can always pull them up on my phone when i need them that way instead of having a bazillion bookmarks i have one with all my favorite links here genius right i think so too which is what leads me to this post really it s just a bunch of links with my notes on how i make them because as we all know i m a lazy food blogger which also means i have zero photos of any of these i also don t necessarily want to take credit for the origin of these recipes nor do i really feel like writing several different posts blathering on about well whatever it is real food bloggers talk about and so with no further ado here s a few of my current favorite dishes that are on rotation as we move from winter to spring produce you might notice there s a lot of greens involved because yes we ve gotten to the point of the year where greens it s what s for dinner i ve got a slew of kale collards and arugula in the garden currently some planted earlier this year that are ready to land on the table and some that over wintered and are still going strong continue reading my latest reinvention november 28 2022 june 13 2023 4 comments it s been over a year since we started empty nesting i have spent the better part of that year resisting the urge to blow it all up i m not really even sure what i mean by that to be honest it just seemed that if menopause was going to kick into high gear as our one and only child went off to college shifting the dynamic of everything at home in the midst of a global pandemic that has reshuffled numerous norms in the world why not change as many things as i possibly could continue reading mid august garden update august 21 2022 2 comments the squirrels are beating us to the tomatoes this year daisy hasn t yet found her voice to scare them away as well as betsy beagle did but considering how far she s come in every other way we ll overlook it without a beagle chasing unwanted visitors off it s become wildlife central out there with rabbits keeping the sweet potato greens from running outside of their raised bed and an entire charm of hummingbirds fluttering about all day stopping to rest on top of the cages around the pepper plants the hummingbirds are next to impossible to capture with a camera but of course that doesn t stop me from trying all of the animals seem to be getting quite comfortable with us out there which i suppose has its pluses and minuses continue reading posts navigation older posts search for becky i am a mom and a wife who would much rather make and bake and dig in the dirt than clean my house i also have an unexplained fondness for chickens view full profile like me here like me here follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow recent posts the best laid plans really my latest thing it s all just a phase a very scrappy holiday this is 54 archives archives select month august 2025 december 2024 august 2024 january 2024 october 2023 august 2023 may 2023 november 2022 august 2022 june 2022 may 2022 march 2022 february 2022 january 2022 june 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