This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play along and …
This is a series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I post weekly about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play along and …
Welcome to Round 50 of this little series I started of all the things in life I’m loving and learning lately! Here you’ll find everything from the books I’m currently reading to the products I’m loving to the shows I’m watching (which, spoiler alert–won’t be very many or very exciting, since I’m not a huge …
I wish I could convey to you the intensity that is August on a flower farm, but perhaps the best way to show you is through a picture: This is just a sliver of our flower farm at the moment (only showing you part of 3.5 rows out of the 11 on the rented land, …
Every fall, I try and share five random lessons (mostly practical) that I’ve learned recently in honor of back to school time. And this year, I’m gonna try to make at least some of them not growing- or flower-related, just so I don’t sound too much like a broken record over here 🙂 So without …
As I continue on in my journey towards minimalism, I am officially somewhere in the “messy middle” — that transitory state between The Constant Chaos That Once Reigned and Ultra-Streamlined Minimalist Zen. (And, depending on the day, I can’t even decide which extreme I’m actually closer to at the moment.) The thing about this messy …
June was planting (soooo much planting) and harvesting masses of pink flowers and not nearly enough weeding. June was a frantic-paced month following on the tails of the three frantic-paced months before it. It was birthday celebrations for Mathias squeezed in between doing wedding florals, and it was up and down uncertainty as to whether …
While I still haven’t quite gone through the whole list I made as part of my “Minimalist by 2024 Challenge,” I’ve still been continuing to peel off layer and layer of clutter as I get a spare minute, and the more simplicity I gain in my home, the more that I crave even more simplicity. …
