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Reminders

January 31, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

Today this post really hit home. I’ve saved it in my RSS feed so I can go back and read it often and plenty. Sometimes I feel like the dream of a farm is impossible. Not only is it impossibly expensive right now (unless you want a fixer-upper, and by that I mean “might-as-well-tear-down-and-start-from-scratch”), it’s also incredibly scary to even think about selling our current place and try to play the home sales game and hope that you can sell one to move to another without putting yourself into the two mortgage situation. And I love my garden and flowers to give up green space for a temporary apartment.

I tend to dwell on the negatives rather than the positives. I dwell on the fact that I can’t have chickens or goats or pigs, instead of focusing my energies on what I do have – a nice chunk of land for veggie growing, access to locally grown items I can’t grow myself, and the will and determination to do what I can with what I have until that fateful day when the perfect property comes up for sale and everything falls in place.

Sometimes it just feels like I’m playing house. Like all my ideas and desires to grow my own food, make my own bread, etc are just a whimsicle fantasy. Especially in these winter months when nothing grows outdoors. Perhaps I’m just restless and antsy for spring.

Regardless, it’s good to have reminders like Jenna’s post to keep me going, keep me growing, and keep me working towards that farm.

Posts garden, link love

Not for everyone

January 28, 2012 Marie 2 Comments

Today’s guest post on WhipUp is not for everyone. If you’re offended by language, or believe that crafts should be sweet and nice and not offensive, then you may just want to skip the link and move on to something different. This guest post shows words some would find offensive on the beautiful backdrop of fabric.

For many of us, crafting is an artistic outlet that lets us express ourselves. We don’t just craft our good days and happy emotions. It’s not all sunshine and roses.  I firmly support the artist and her freedom of expression and I love what she’s doing by confronting society’s standard idea of what crafting should be.

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Winter Petals

January 26, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

Just a few short days since my last post this little hyacinth has really started to bloom. There is a small hint of its sweet scent if you’re close enough to it – I could smell it while I took pictures – but not enough to perfume the entire room. I think I have a love of photographing flowers because they fade so quickly. Too quickly, if you ask me. Sometimes I wish I lived in a warmer climate where I could have blooming flowers year-round, but I try to remind myself that the bitter, barren winter makes me appreciate little things such as this so much more.

Though the winter equinox is over a month behind us, the days still darken early. A dismal gray fog settled among the trees and fields today, contrasted by amber-shaded grass in the ditches. It was beautiful and eerie all at once. The image brought Sleepy Hollow to mind.

Candles glow on the dining room table, the kitchen, the bathroom, etc for extra light indoors. I still have my holiday tree up simply because I love the soft glow the lights give off despite the holidays being well over. My oil lanterns are nearly out of fuel. I spend my evenings trying to make up where Mother Nature left off.

Posts garden, home, nature, winter

The weekend

January 23, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment


:: Breakfast Sunday, something I’m trying hard to make a habit now.
:: Lots of spinning while being holed up in the house from snow.
:: Pretty daylight on the indoor plants thanks to aforementioned snow.
:: A much more labor-intense painting project than anticipated resulting in just a single wall painted.
:: A little hyacinth growing ever-so-carefully on a window sill
I have a to-do list full of things to get done today. The weekend was pretty tame, as you can see. I spent a good part of it just relaxing and recuperating after not feeling well, so today has become the ‘catch up’ day to get back on track. So far the day seems to be slipping away from me faster than I’d like.

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3 hours

January 20, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

Three hours to get a single wall taped, primed, and painted. And it really could use a 3rd coat, but I’m avoiding it at the moment. And hoping that maybe once things are put back together and the curtains are sewn and hung and the pictures are on the wall that no one will notice the fact that I suck at painting, or that the ‘edge lock’ painters tape failed and the trim has bits of paint on them.

On to walls 2-4.

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