Things are still quite busy here at our little homestead. We picked the last of the onions and carrots yesterday and began cleanup of those beds (whew!). Today and tomorrow we'll tackle the potatoes and corn hopefully. Not only do we have the corn patch in the back of the property but someone (a bird? …
After seeing them floating (ahem) around the web, I've been wanting to make these adorable cheesecloth ghosts and yesterday I finally got around to doing it. I used a handful of things to create this little spook: balloon liquid starch wax paper cheesecloth black felt I also needed some additional things like scissors, a tall, …
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Halloween is my favorite holiday of them all so we go all out every year and with it being just around the corner we are already getting into the spirit here at our little homestead. Yes, I know it's a bit soon but we have a lot of work to do! We were "that house" …
O I rise with the brightly coloured dawnAnd I hope my vast dreams unfold today!After dark times, I am feeling reborn.The child within me will come out to play.Dominic Windram Yeah, I'm not quite that optimistic at 5 am, which is apparently when I have to start waking up now whether I like it or …
Has anyone else gotten the feeling that a lot of things that shouldn't affect us all have suddenly popped up rather loudly and are being pushed in our society, culture and collective psyche these last few years? Or that they seem to have an overarching purpose of distracting us from some pretty nasty things that …
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