BlogHide Resteemsbghandmade (55)inĀ naturalmedicineĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoHerbal tea mix! Each winter we have a daily ritual of making a pot of herbal tea. We drink some for breakfast, some for lunch and some after dinner time. The aim is not focused on medicine, even if all the herbsā¦resteemednateonsteemit (66)inĀ naturalmedicineĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoSteem Fundraiser for TREESHey y'all! Gonna do a little begging this morning. Like I posted about yesterday, I'm planting more trees here. Currently, this is being funded by my powering down on steem and turning it toā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ handmadeĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoCounting stats! Ok, not really! š But almost! We're working on a Christmas card order for an old time customer. The card will combine handmade paper as well as Italian watercolor paper - lightly textured andā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoBales of straw delivered! Our future next door neighbours (they will be actual neighbours once our house is finished) are small scale grain farmers. They lease about 250 acres farmland which they plant with corn, sunflowerā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoColorful medicine!Ok so seeing that my last post about hot foil stamping did not get any interest from you guys I suppose I'll have to go back to gardening posts! Today I have a single photo post for you! Butā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ printingĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoHot foil stamping in gold!This week we had a very nice project to work on! OK it was not one of the handmade paper creations we usually do, but still very pleasing. We had the chance to use our foil hot stamping machineā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ diyĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoA really (s)crap wood table - a first for us! A few months ago I posted about a scrap wood table we were hoping to make. More back story in my post ! Just to add a few details. All the wood you can get here is really scrap but without theā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoPeppers and tomatoes in our summer gardenOk so I've been building up the suspense š with summer photos of the garden and soon will post the final few photos before I come to present day! That will be a relief as I won't struggle withā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoSaving tomato seedsEach year in the height of the summer our most important task is saving the seeds of all tomato varieties we grow. Generally saving seeds is an easy and pleasant activity in the garden. Howeverā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoMore summer harvesting! Hello, I am continuing with my attempt to post photos I took a while back in the summer. Today I found a nice photo of our regular harvest from the garden. As you can probably tell from the photoā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ handmadeĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoNatural and pressed handmade paperIt's been a very long time since I posted any of our hand made paper projects! Really it's not on purpose and not because we lack projects. On the contrary, we've had so many orders and projectsā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoTomato galore! I'm still catching up on the photos I shot before we went on a holiday, but as time passes I am forgetting their stories. Memory is a weird thing. I'm certain there is a reason I took a specificā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoMycelium growing!Well, our holiday quickly transformed into a pile of orders and things to catch up with at day work and in our handmade paper business. That's all good, but with the added pressure of canning andā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ beachĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoCamping trip was great!Wow those two weeks went SHWOOSH! Time really flies when you're having a great time! We spent a week at two different campsite along the Black Sea coast. Each was great! Kids had a blast ofā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ campingĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoGone camping! Hey all, our family is currently camping at the seaside - Black Sea coast. So posts will be few in the next two weeks! Here is a photo of the beach we visit! And here is part of our campā¦resteemednateonsteemit (66)inĀ fundition-xmv5lpvatĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoHARD FORK CHICKEN: August 27, 2019Dark AB wants to know how the fork went! This chicken is one of the ones I call The Littles. They're still babies, but growing very fast! Their names are TB and the ABs (AB is pronouncedā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoPicking green beans! So we started teaching the kids how to pick green beans! It's been a great success! They still lack the patience to pick a whole bed of beans but make it into a game, to discover where the pods areā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoThe tomato keeper! Just a quick post to share a funny photo :) One of the yard cats napping in the cool of the moist soil and tomato shade. Kids said it's guarding the tomatoes so nobody pick them before they're readyā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardeningĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoA few harvest photos! Our mean picking season begins in July with early tomatoes and green beans. Of course we are harvesting leafy greens and fruits from much earlier. But we don't have a hoop house so heat lovingā¦bghandmade (55)inĀ gardenĀ ā¢Ā 5 years agoScrap wood for a new tableSo we found some people that were giving away a few old planks and other scrap wood. That's very rare around here. People living in a not very rich society use everything and rarely have material toā¦