Lifestyle. {aka: What Makes Life Fun}
This lifestyle section is the toy box of my life. The things I like to do for fun, like garden, travel and try new restaurants. Heck, try new things in general. I might talk on of the rad cookbooks on my shelf because I mean really, you doesn’t love a good cookbook?
It’s a place I might share a photo that I like. Like this header photo, for example, that I took in the Swan Falls area in Southeast Idaho just as the season was starting to change.
Mainly it’s about all the things that round out what I like to think is my kick ass Idaho lifestyle.
grow blueberries in idaho
I'd tried a couple times to grow blueberries and I'd failed an equal amount of times. Apparently my standard stick-it-in-the-ground-and-let-it-be approach wasn't going to work this time. Resolved to have blueberries as part of the SNOW Block Alley project, I signed up...
albertsons signature product launch event
After spending ten years working his way up the ladder at Safeway, Joe Albertson opened his first grocery store in 1939. That flagship store is my neighborhood market, just a few blocks from my house. When I was asked to attend the launch of Albertsons and Safeway's...
made in the shade
When Idaho Statesman writer Anna Webb wrote the story on the SNOW Block Alley last summer she happened to take a peak inside the gate to our backyard. She said she was working on a story on shade gardens for the spring and would I be interested in being featured. The...
diy all-purpose cleaner
Whenever cleaning supplies are on my grocery list I know it's going to be an expensive outing. That became even more so when I switched from the mainstream brands to those that were more natural. So I started looking into making my own and found that with some basic...
san diego
The day in early February that we left Boise, it was snowing. The Uber driver took one look at my flip flops and decided I was either optimistic, crazy or going somewhere warm. Turns out this time it was the latter. Because my birthday is really more of a weeklong...
diy lavender linen spray
Linen spray has always seemed like an indulgence. It seemed expensive for what it was and I didn't get the appeal. Then a couple summers ago the Hubs got a bottle at the farmer's market for me. From that first night I sprayed my pillow with that fine mist of lavender,...
fun raising
I met Betsy of BetsyLife.com on the Idaho Potato Commission Harvest Tour last year and I have to admit, I think I have a bit of a blogger crush on her. I would like to think we would be fast friends if we lived in the same place but since she lives in California and...
so i got a coloring book
So I got a coloring book. Sure...it's one of the adult ones but it's still a coloring book. I'm 40...er...something, I have a BFA and I have a coloring book. I'd had the coloring book for a couple weeks, feeling sort of silly for not only wanting it but for buying it....
gratitude is the attitude
I'm not necessarily one for making resolutions. Something about the very word seems to set it up for failure. But I do believe in setting goals and intentions as a way to keep life going in the right direction. It also forces me to contemplate what I want to...
peppermint sugar scrub
In October I did a 20 day yoga challenge at my favorite local studio. The most challenging part? Getting to the 6 am class as the days were growing darker and colder. One of my favorite parts of the session was a reintroduction to essential oils. Back in my hippier...
prasad portland
I'm not a vegetarian, let alone a vegan, but I like to try new things. My husband? Well, he humors me sometimes but I think he generally prefers his breakfast with a side of pork. So when I found myself in Portland, Oregon recently, not only was I excited that I could...
jaialdi 2015
For one week every 5 years, I am transported to another country without leaving my own city. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'm going to be lobbying hard to come back as Basque. Or maybe I was already a Basque in another lifetime. That would certainly...