For the past few weeks, I’ve been searching thrift stores, yard sales, antique stores, and Goodwill, looking for a quilt topper or old quilt that had no emotional significance so I could cut it up and make Christmas stockings. I was so excited when I finally found one for nine dollars at a thrift store….
When we take a road trip, we try to find the little local shops and restaurants that are hidden or mostly known only by the locals. On a recent adventure, we were traveling through Hodgenville and had a bit of a craving for something sweet. Sure, we could have stopped at the local Dollar General…
I’m really comfortable with canning, dehydrating, and storing food from our garden. But I’ve never really experimented much with fermentation. I did make the best sauerkraut ever last fall with a head of fresh farmers’ market cabbage. And honestly, that gave me the confidence to try something else new – fermented cranberry pineapple honey. This…
If you come to our house on a Saturday morning, chances are we’ll have homemade biscuits and jelly with bacon, eggs, and a hot cup of coffee. Or maybe we’ll have a blackberry muffin or blueberry waffles with hickory syrup. And now that my new bowls from Wayfair have arrived, our weekend breakfast has gone…
Recently, my mom gave me a Singer treadle sewing machine that she used when she was sewing her clothes for college back in the late 1960s. I don’t think it’s been used much since then, and it’s been sitting in her house for years. She brought it out to me a couple of weeks ago,…
I love growing tomatoes and peppers in my garden, and every year I go buy the seedling starts from the local nursery. But this year, now that we live on the farm, I decided I would try to grow my tomatoes and peppers from seeds. I already have all the supplies — two heat mats…
I love using cloth napkins because they are super easy to make, and you can customize them with any kind of fabric you have. And they don’t have to be used just for napkins. They are perfect for covering up a fresh batch of homemade biscuits or chocolate chip cookies. Recently, I’ve also been trying…
Recently, we took a short drive over to Cave City, Kentucky and visited several antique malls. We love walking through these antique stores, not because we are shopping for anything particular, but we love looking for ideas for how to reuse and repurpose things that we have found on the farm, in the barn or…
I love playing with buttons and making little button Christmas trees and pot charms for my plants. But recently, I decided it was time to make some little button people. There’s just something pretty adorable about a little button person holding onto a plant pot. Don’t these just make you smile? One of my daughter’s…