It’s been one year since we moved into our farmhouse. One year since we waved goodbye to Illinois, the suburbs, city sewer lines and our friends and family there to start a new life here. One year since we started life on the farm. We had…
With the new year now here, I wanted to share the last of my holiday inspiration, the Christmas table decor. You can pin it for next year’s inspiration and very ahead of the Christmas season. 🙂 I promised a second holiday table this season and even…
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While so much of my energy has been focused on the barn this year and then the outside area in the spring, it’s sometimes easy to forget I have a whole house to decorate too. This Christmas – before I worried about the barn – I decided…
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While Christmas may be over, we are still knee deep in holiday spirit over here. We have some friends and family coming for New Year’s and just after and they requested that we leave the farmhouse Christmas decor up so they can see it. And…
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There’s a good chance that every year our Christmas decor will go more and more natural. As much as I am a fan of all the sparkle and twinkle the store bought things bring with them each Christmas season, I’m really discovering a love of using…
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As we prepare to mark our first year here at Sugar Maple, I’m pulled back into memories from last Christmas. It was a difficult holiday being on the precipice of moving the day after Christmas. We threw up the tree and strung up one money string…
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In our previous house, decorating the kitchen for the holidays isn’t something that would have crossed my mind. While the kitchen was central to providing delicious holiday food that everyone dreams of, I’ve always seen it as more of a tool versus a place to be…
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Christmas cookies are like little bits of magic. The shapes, the way they smell, the detail put into so many of them – each one is like its own little special memory. Whether it’s candy cane twists, gingerbreads, snowballs, peanut butter blossoms, thumbprints, Italian knots, simple…
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Growing up my grandmothers always had the most beautiful holiday tables. My maternal grandmother’s table was (and still is) always eclectic. With a big Italian family, holidays always had 30 people or more per celebration. We had nice table clothes with paper appetizer plates, baskets of…
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When I was 25, I worked in corporate America at one of the leading fast food chains in the world. It was a grueling world, where my optimism, can-do attitude, lack of a MBA and youth were always working against me. The Senior Vice President –…
