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DIY Homemade Vanilla Extract
If you haven’t noticed yet, I have this thing with making stuff from scratch. I love to know how everything is made and why it works the way it does. I find the messy process breathtakingly beautiful. Something about planting a seed, nurturing it until it ripens, then bottling my own food makes me feel […]
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50 Journal Prompts to get through Quarantine
Holy smokes, I don’t know about you but my anxiety has been through the roof lately! I feel like the mom in Pride and Prejudice, with “tremblings, such flutterings all over me– such spasms in my side and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night […]
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Essential Oil for Mood & Health + DIY Shower Melts
I’ve been under the weather and not feeling myself for the last few weeks. My immune system isn’t the strongest and the winter bugs tend to be pretty hard on me. One of the remedies I turn to when I’m feeling like junk is essential oil. I use it to make inhalers, rollers, bath salts, […]
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Boho Eastlake Lamp Table
Sometimes all you need to give a piece new life is some cleaning and a little bit of love. I found this Eastlake lamp table on a local Facebook site last month and couldn’t resist buying it. I have a thing for carved furniture and this table is covered in it! Being a floor installer’s […]
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The Adventure Code: Leave it Better than You Found it
Remember a few years ago when I shared with you “The Code” I learned from my dad? Well, that code has been on my mind a lot lately. As I’ve traveled around the western states, I’ve realized that Dad’s beloved adventure code has fallen out of fashion. While I big puffy heart LOVE that more […]
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Earth Day 2016 Ideas
I started writing this post last week, but didn’t get it done. Our spunky little grandma passed away and all our focus has been there the last little bit, as it should be. With Earth Day tomorrow, I’m sorry that this is such late notice, but hopefully you understand. I know it’s only a day […]
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Comfort for the Common Cold
I’m not sure if I have been pushing myself a little hard with the painting the past few weeks or if it was the emotions of my auntie’s funeral on Wednesday, but I finally succumbed to the nasty cold the rest of my family has been passing around. I was doing so good not to […]
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