HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES

I feel like I am gearing up for the holidays WAY sooner this year than I normally do. I’m just feeling it this year, guys. Kyle typically would start calling me Scrooge about now, but weirdly, I’m right there with him. Bring on the wreaths and Christmas songs! Anyway, I thought I’d share a few […]
VINTAGE MARKET DAYS

Earlier this year, I was contacted by the Vintage Market Days event for the Columbus area. This is an awesome pop-up market event that started in Oklahoma in 2011, but has since branched out to 26 states. The Columbus event planners wanted me to attend as a blogger/writer and bring some friends to check it out, so I planned […]
PESTO FIASCO

Cooking isn’t something I was technically taught, it’s just something that I picked up along the way. I’ve watched my mom peel and chop (which she hates the most) and boil and whip my whole life. She never showed me anything specifically, I think I just picked up things here and there as I grew […]
FRONT PORCH: BEFORE AND AFTER

Kyle and I finally finished our front porch. I can’t tell you how relieved we both are to have that checked off of our enormous home to-do list, but also how freaking excited I am with how it turned out. A lot of the things we used on it were things that his parents left […]
AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD

Sometime earlier in the year, I decided I wanted to get a starter for Amish Friendship Bread and write about it. But then school started and I became The Grad Student Zombie, and there was just no time or energy for such things. Or anything for that matter. Then, magically, at the end of the semester, […]