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Full & Quiet
The noise of life on the street below wakes me before my alarm. I roll over and burrow deeper into the covers, pretending it’s not time to get up and start the day. But my brain has initiated its...
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Flower Class: Week One
At some point I’ll gather all the scattered little shreds of paper I’ve written my goals for 2014 upon, but this is not that point. We’ve just returned from four utterly relaxing days on the Oregon...
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Snowstorm Soup & No-Knead Bread
As everyone well knows by now, the Portland area got some snow last week. Not a snow storm, not “snowpocalypse,” not snowed-in. Just snow. A good bit, too. I’m usually a snow-humbug, growing up in a...
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Back to Me
It seems like the fog I’ve been in since the holidays is finally lifting and just this week, I’ve started to feel like myself again. I can see out of the confines of my own head and the future looks...
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Pa Nang Curry with Chicken
After ushering in the New Year with a loaded baked potato bar, some wild little girls and all our very best friends, we were ready to hibernate for a few days. Luckily, a long weekend and a giant...
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Crostini Station
As you know, we recently moved into a charming 1920’s farmhouse on a large plot of land just outside Silverton, Oregon. And after putting in a lot of time and effort fixing the thing up, we were ready...
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Life on the Farm: Vol. 1
I’ve had my eye on this house forever. Prayed and pleaded, begged and bargained to get myself in here. I used to make Taylor drive past it every time we visited his parents and slow just as we passed,...
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Slice of Life
Last month I did a shoot and shared a recipe with local online men’s magazine, Classfare. We prepped and shot my favorite Corn Chowder, and despite the nerves I always have before cooking in front of...
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How does your Garden Grow?
Early this spring I sat down with the latest volume of the Territorial Seed Company catalog and planned my garden. I used their Garden Planner to plot everything out perfectly, and ordered my seeds...
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Getting Ready
Ever since I hit the halfway point of this pregnancy, my mind has been spinning. An endless cycle of things to do, usually coming through in some kind of list, and one thing after another so...
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This Old House
Having lived in our house for nearly a year, which I feel is the minimum required time to really to know a space, I thought it was high time I post some photos of our little farmhouse’s...
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Being at Home
Three things I never expected. To fall in love with cooking. To move to the country. To thrive being at home. I’ve worked from home the last few years, but since I stopped working in September...
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Essential Oils
I know, I know. Essential Oils, blahdy blah. You’ve heard it all before, it’s a worthless pyramid scheme, it’s just a trend, an overpriced hobby for desperate housewives. You’re sick and tired of...
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Kid Containment
One of the things I dreaded most about having babies was the idea of my home being taken over by kid crap. I had visions of stepping on toys, tripping over books and stubbing my toe on endless plastic...
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Little Things
I’ve been feeling a little small lately. A little invisible. A little bit like if I fell off the face of the earth, maybe nobody would notice. Of course that’s not true. Obviously Emmett would notice,...
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Finding a Home
Every now and then I have a brief dalliance with another house. I’ll find one on Redfin, pour over its pictures and details, imagine myself moving in, remodeling, redecorating. I’ll ask my husband if...
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This Old House
Having lived in our house for nearly a year, which I feel is the minimum required time to really to know a space, I thought it was high time I post some photos of our little farmhouse’s...
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Simple Halloween Decor
I’ve never been one to go overboard for Halloween. Taylor and I usually just spend the evening itself curled up watching Monster’s Inc. and carving pumpkins. But this year, with a little...
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Essential Oils: Natural Cleaning
It’s about to get reeeeeeal nerdy up in here. You ready? Ok, SO. I made the switch over to natural cleaning products quite a few years ago, when I first dove into researching organic foods and how the...
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Dreaming of Home
Lately, we’ve been talking about houses. “What! That’s crazy! Why would you ever move!?” you might be thinking. Trust me, the day I moved in here I vowed never to leave of my own free will. But let me...
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