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Happy Holidays to You!
Wishing you a season of joy and cheer, and a bright new year full of hope.
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A bloem BAGZ strawberry planter
How great is this?! A standing, fabric strawberry planter made from 100% recycled material, including recycled water bottles. A few...
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Natural sculptures
This weekend we purchased several pumpkins to carve for Halloween. And then I saw these. Doesn't this squash look just like the profile...
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Orchids getting ready to bloom
We only have a couple of plants indoors, a couple of phalaenopsis orchids and an aloe vera. It took me many years to realize how easy it...
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Happy Holidays to you!
This year I decided to have more creatures to the holiday wreath I made. If you look closely at the wreath, you will see a honey bee, a...
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Don't toss that squishy fruit, make compote!
Yes, I'm posting again about the joys of making and eating compote. With the abundance of delicious fruit this season, sometimes I get a...
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Dried Strawflowers
I love to buy sustainably grown flowers to add color indoors. Now that we live in a house that retains a lot of heat, my favorite flowers...
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'tis the season
We're still living in some chaos since we moved to this house a couple of weeks ago. Still a lot to unpack and organize. And what a time...
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Winter still life
While tidying up after the holidays I felt that this random group of dried vegetation on a table actually makes an interesting still...
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Must read!
Did you know that the top shelf of your refrigerator is the warmest and the lowest shelf is the coldest? Or how to interpret the "sell...