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Willow basket weaving begins years before your hands ever touch a rod. For an inside look into growing, harvesting, soaking, and drying willow to use in your projects, you’ve come to the right place. The work of preparing Willow There is a particular kind of quiet that lives in a willow rod. In early spring, […]

Preparing to Weave with Willow: From Living Branches to Basket

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Weaving a Willow Basket

With hearty ingredients and rich flavor, this homemade chicken pot pie is a meal worth sitting down for A Thoughtfully Made Meal There’s a version of chicken pot pie that feels more like an idea than a meal—overly thick, aggressively creamy, and somehow flat. It fills you up, but it doesn’t feel finished. Dinner should […]

How to Make a Chicken Pot Pie That Tastes Like Dinner, Not a Shortcut

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Chicken Pot Pie Crust

Let’s take a moment to shift the focus off of ourselves and onto our home, making the new year just as much about the habits you want to create as the space you have to create them. Taking a Pause to Reflect The Christmas tree is taken down and the new gifts have all found […]

The Quiet Home Reset: 7 Small Winter Shifts that Make Your Home Feel Better

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sheepskin on a rocking chair by the Christmas tree

Every winter, I love filling the house with natural elements—things that feel both old-world and handmade. And one of the simplest, most beautiful decorations you can make is a bowl of cut, dried mandarins.     European-Inspired Orange Decor These dried, cut oranges are rustic, fragrant, and look like tiny glowing lanterns when the light […]

How to Make Beautiful Whole Slit Mandarins for Winter Decorating

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Dried Mandarin Decor

Simple, practical tips to start your self-care before the new year Implementing Simple yet Transformative Habits Life piles up. Sometimes it feels like the world’s noise, especially now, never stops and the to-do list never ends. But the Holidays are supposed to be calm right…. Here’s the good news- little micro-daily habits can actually change […]

21 Simple Habits to Help you Find Calm and Take Back Your Day

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Carrying Winter Greens

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