by Daisy | Dec 27, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
It’s the holy grail of edible gardening, isn’t it? Fresh vegetables in the middle of winter? What riches! To me that’s swankier than a luxury sedan in a four-car garage. Eliot Coleman has the formula, and it isn’t a secret. It’s all in...
by Ivory Soap | Dec 27, 2012 | Breakfast, Fencepost, Flops, Recipes
Those biscuits were awesome, btw, but I will get to those in another post. Right now we need to talk PIG. My children really latched onto that “World Bacon Shortage” story back in September. I think it’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, as they...
by Daisy | Dec 27, 2012 | Crafts, Fabric & Sewing
These are so easy I wanted to share them with you. You get such a lot of cuteness for very little effort you have to try making them. Here I show it as a hairclip, but they are great as brooches with a little bar pin, or sewn on to sweaters (maybe over a moth hole)...
by Daisy | Dec 19, 2012 | Crafts, Woodworking
With preschool and primary school-age kids, I struggle to organize their clothes. I thought about taking a picture of the laundry room floor before I cleared it up, but nobody would believe it was really that bad so I am sparing you the image. Suffice it to say, I...
by Daisy | Dec 13, 2012 | Crafts, Knitting
I think this is a sweet little cloth, perfect for a themed basket of honey-related items. Tucked into a basket with a beeswax-rich lotion bar or some Clementine Honey Marmalade (recipe in our book, p. 137), or hand-dipped beeswax candles (in the book, too!), it makes...
