We made it official 10 years ago today

We made it official 10 years ago today

Dear Stefan, Today we are celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary! I’m not sure how that’s possible, because it can’t have possibly gone so quickly…yet somehow the calendar disagrees with me. Aren’t we still young kids in our...

What are you doing for New Years?

Since Stefan and I got together over a DECADE ago (ack!), we have hosted quite a few New Year’s Eve parties at our house. Most of the time they were quite intimate and casual, and they seldom involved fireworks since Ayla seems to get more and more disturbed by...
{Garden Life}  Seed Savers Exchange

{Garden Life} Seed Savers Exchange

Seeds. They are the life-force of your garden. Without seeds, most of the plants in our garden would cease to exist — whether you are planting seeds yourself or using store-bought seedlings — and in turn, life would become far more complicated since qe...
Getting Chilly

Getting Chilly

As luck would have it, the one week that “chilly” is the selected topic on YouCapture, we have no frost at all. But since you got to see our frostiness just a couple weeks ago, I guess you’ll have to settled for the signs of the chill in the air...
Hemming drapes with ease

Hemming drapes with ease

I could hardly believe it when the call came in on Monday evening. Our new windows were being delivered to the window installer on Tuesday morning, and they wanted to set up an appointment to deliver them to us and get started with the installation in the afternoon....