I live on a farm ... — food

The foods that bind us

February 17, 2011 • apples • blogging • cookie recipes • country life • country living • culture • dating • faith • family • farm • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • recipes • relationships • shopping • women • yarn

I made twenty dozen of these scrumptious cookies to send off to loved ones this Valentine's Day. A chocolate-based cookie, I used premium bittersweet cocoa powder, doubling the amount the recipe called for. In addition to a standard dose of semi-sweet mini chocolate chips, I added one bag of large Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate morsels so that each cookie would have one or two extra chunks of premium bittersweet chocolate. With other interesting ingredients like whiskey and coffee, these cookies seemed the perfect choice for a Valentine confection. Everyone who received them seemed to agree. I gave my husband his own...

The Bus Stops Here

December 14, 2010 • art • baby • Christmas • country life • country living • faith • family • food • friends • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • Life • love • personal • pets • photography • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • travel • women

I was up very late this evening and into the wee hour (1:00 is just one wee hour and I went to bed right after this post which I did at 1:10 a.m. or so, so yes, singular "wee" hour) of the morning. There is a book project I am working on and there was a long, long wait while files uploaded and re-uploaded. While I waited I dreamed I was on a shopping trip in the city on a bus. In my dream I got off at each bus stop and shopped at the store right in front of...

The Advent of Santa: Day Four

December 4, 2010 • art • Christmas • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • food • friendship • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • photography • relationships • Santa Claus • shopping • thoughts • women

Now here is a sooty ol' Santa Claus ... he must have been practicing getting into and out of some chimneys. The Santa in my advent yesterday was a candle Santa (again, I don't understand why Santa seems appropriate as a candle subject, because what if someone burned him and he melted. It is just one of the saddest thoughts, a melting Santa. But, I digress ... back on point, yesterday's Santa was a candle and today's is a candle as well. I bought this one not long after I bought the other one--perhaps a year or two later. Perhaps...

Why Santa dropped by my place today

November 29, 2010 • art • biscuit recipes • Christmas • country life • country living • family • food • friends • friendship • hand knit dishcloths • inspiration • knitted washrags • knitting • Life • love • photography • recipes • women • yarn

Some time ago I came across these gorgeous Espresso colored gift boxes that are 6" x 6" x 4" and I knew that all of the goodies I put into a Biscuit Blanket kit would fit perfectly inside of one. I also knew that the yarn, the note card and the recipe cards would look scrumptious inside a box that color.

Grateful for the Vessel and the Stand

November 25, 2009 • art • blogging • country life • faith • family • food • gifts • health • Holidays • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • photography • relationships • romance • spirituality • Thanksgiving • thoughts • women

One of the most beautiful things I have learned along the way is that, to be grateful is to love, and that without love an understanding of gratitude cannot be enveloped within myself.