If you’ve been reading here for any amount of time, you know we love our fairy gardens! And since the weather is nice out, the kids have been spending more time outdoors, cleaning out the fairies’ habitats and getting them ready for summer. We introduce new things each year, but we do have a core list […]
The Ultimate Guide to Gardening With Kids
Whether you can start gardening with your kids today, or whether you still have a month or more to go before it’s safe to plant outside (like me…le sigh), I’ve got some gardening ideas here you can try with your kids right now. I’ve been itching to get out there — if you follow my […]
How to Compost
So I mentioned last week that we started composting. I’ve been scared to try because it looked like a hassle, but we finally did and here’s what we’ve learned about how to compost. My husband brought home this kitchen composter that’s all cute and sits on our counter. We just dump our kitchen scraps in […]
5 Ways to Go Green This Summer
Over the past few years, I’ve been looking at how we operate as a family. What we eat, what we buy, what we throw out. And while we’re not 100% clean eaters, and don’t make all our own clothes, or use only public transportation, we do try to be mindful and go green where we […]
Fairy Garden Ideas
We’ve been gathering fairy garden ideas and making our own for a few years now. I can’t think of any other activity I do with the kids that’s so much fun to set up. And after the initial set-up, the kids spend hours playing with the gardens and fairies. Everyone loves the fairy garden — from the […]
Homemade Salsa
Our garden is in full swing right now. I can’t remember the last time we got this many tomatoes — by now we’ve usually had at least one good freeze or hailstorm or something that kills off all my tomatoes just before they’re ready to eat. But this time, the little buggers have persevered from […]
The Fairy Garden
So after a wee break last week to attend to the end of the school year…and to the first patient here requiring a cast (I figure one cast after 11 years and four kids is a pretty good record by OSHA standards, yes?)…we’re back and ready to start our summer. One of the first orders […]
Simple Greens
There’s a good chance my mom’s going to read this (hi, mom!) and laugh and laugh, because when she came to visit last week, she was horrified to see I’d murdered all my orchids. However. Dead orchids notwithstanding, I really think one of the best ways to combat a dreary mid-winter is with some living, green […]
Garden Totem
Let me start by saying that I got a new camera last week. A refurbished Nikon D3100 (actually it’s a new old camera…but still exciting for me). So it was all I could do to write a post that didn’t feature 25 close-ups of flowers and ducks and my kids making weird faces. But ever […]
Yard Art — Glass Mushrooms
So along with the clothing and purse score at the thrift store earlier this month, I also picked up some glassware. Little crystal bowls and a few crystal candlesticks. I played around with them, helped by constant advice from my five-year old (“Mom. That does not look like a mushroom. No.”) When I finally got them the way […]