• House & Home

    1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Bedroom

    Well, you’ve seen our Kitchen, Dining Room/Office and Living Room, so I guess that means that today is the day you get to peek into our (miraculously clean, even if just for the photos) bedroom! Excited? Good 😉 Now, what can I say about it beside the fact that it’s huge…

  • DIY - Eat

    Cranberry Sauce

    Cranberry Sauce is one of those things I never thought twice about until just a few years ago. I mean really, what’s there to think about? It comes in a can, you buy it around the holidays (and really, only around the holidays), it comes in jellied form or in…

  • House & Home

    1821 Hacienda Home Tour ::: Living Room

    If you’ve seen our Kitchen and our Dining Room, you know by now that all of the rooms in our hacienda are quite large, right.  Well, let me just tell you that, at ~475 square feet, our Living Room alone is larger than the little studio apartment my oldest daughter…

  • DIY - Eat - Food Storage & Preservation

    Dehydrating Old Apples

    Ever have grand plans that fall through when real life gets in the way? Yeah, it’s a thing! After all of the harvesting was done from our young apple trees on the urban farm, I was sure I’d get busy with baking everything-apple-under-the-sun! I started off with a bang with…

  • Chickens

    The Great Chicken Mansion Move

    Well, it only took us two months to get a bit clearer on our path from the city and into a whole new way of living, but clearer it is…which means projects we’ve been putting off have to be taken care, no matter what the weather, time or energy allows…

  • Homesteading - House & Home

    City Girls Going Rural – Update

    It’s been a few months since I posted an update about where we are with the move and our establishment of systems at the new place so, while there is still so much to do, I thought I’d give you a little update while taking stock of where we’re at! Honestly, there…

  • DIY

    100+ Handmade Holiday Gift Ideas

    A handmade gift is, in my opinion, always better than anything that can be purchased! Full of love, time and intention, handmade gifts are perfect for family, friends, and that one person in your life who is impossible to shop for or who always asks for socks (you know at…