Text the word “mailbox” and your messaging app will likely present you with a choice of emojis featuring traditional rural mailboxes. It’s an interesting contradiction―if you text like you were born with a phone in your hand, it’s entirely possible you’ve never used a traditional, rural mailbox in real life.
A whole, new parade of flowers comes into bloom as we sail into summer. Daisies, roses, peonies and other summertime favorites replace tulips, lilacs and cherry blossoms. This seasonal showcase provides the perfect opportunity to revisit the topic of floriography.
Harvesting fruit, vegetables or flowers at your local U-Pick farm is the next best thing to having your own orchard and garden. Not only do you benefit from fresher-than-fresh produce but you also support local growers and farmers.
Sometimes the simplest things bring the most joy. Take bubbles for instance. Could there be anything more relaxing than watching soap bubbles shimmer in the sunshine before they burst and disappear?
“Time to get the cows!” was a daily battle cry in the summers of my childhood. Every afternoon, one of us was sent to the pasture where the milk cows were grazing to herd them to the barn for the second milking of the day.
Building on last week’s Let’s Talk Shades blog post, I’d like to jump right into my latest upcycled maker project. This was a dramatic makeover—from dowdy, outdated, thrift-store discard to glamorous, look-at-me, decorative accent lamp. Here’s a quick look at the before and after.
