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 herbs certainly

Ok, not really! 😂 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 and with cotton

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, sunflower and

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! But what a photo

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 machine! We used

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 the S. I see

Ok so I've been building up the suspense 😂 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 with sorting

Each 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. However with tomatoes

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 photo tomatoes

It'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 projects especially

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 specific photo

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 and freezing

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 of course. And

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 camp, always fun with

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 are and

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 ready 😂

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 loving plants like

So 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 to throw

So last weekend we harvested our garlic. At least what little was left of it it because we ate most of the garlic while still green. I'm not sure how we managed to be so selective but somehow we are left

Can you guess what type of seeds are those? This is our first harvest of mangetout Golden Sweet snow pea seeds! We specifically left more pods to ripen so we can gather more seeds. We plan to have those