• Create

    2012 Holiday Craft Exchange

    With Elfing Season right around the bend, it’s time to get our craft on! Here’s a reminder of the super cool ornament I received last year through the exchange Please join in the fun by jumping over to Insert Metaphor and signing up for the 2012 Craft Exchange before Tuesday, November 20th so Olive can match all of us crafters…

  • DIY

    Beer Brewing

    Oh yeah… Tool Lady, happily, and patiently, beginning the waiting process…

  • Eat,  Food Storage & Preservation

    Harvest Swap

    Last weekend, Tool Lady and I attended our very first Harvest Swap!  It was based on the framework of the Food Swap Network and was hosted by the Radical Homemakers of New Mexico (Erin and Kyce)! Although there were instructions given, neither of us had ever attended anything like this before so we really didn’t know what to bring or how to package it all,…

  • Goats

    Possible Goat Milking Gig

    Last weekend, while browsing Craigslist, Tool Lady found a posting titled “Goat Milking Gig”.  So, she asked if it sounded like a good idea, and of course, I said yes!  After a few emails and phone calls, it was decided that we should meet, check each other out, check the set up out and get a little tutorial on goat…

  • Create,  Everything Else

    El Rancho de las Golondrinas

    BIG (unrelated to garden) NEWS! I am now, as of last Monday, officially a Big Sister through Big Brothers Big Sisters!  🙂 Usually when being “matched” with a Little through Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a Big & Little match is set up by the staff at BBBS using the information obtained in your interviews based on interests and similarities…

  • Create

    The Business of Art

    Art, until about a year ago, was always one of those things that I’d done from time to time for fun.  Not anything I did to earn money or to really put out into the world.  Then, about a year ago, I decided to make a go of it. It’s terrifying to work hard to create something beautiful, and then…