A crafty lifestyle blog
Do you remember my very first garden, back in 2014? And then it expanded a little in 2015. By 2016 (the last garden update here), I’d grown the garden as much as I would at my previous apartment. That was such a great beginning! Now, I’m in my 8th year gardening and my 3rd garden
Since it’s been a minute (ha) since the last time I regularly posted, there are a lot of changes to update y’all on. Like for many people, life has been incredibly stressful since 2016, and especially for the past year. But it’s important to also celebrate the wins, and I am grateful that my life
Before jumping into new content, I want to address the elephant in the room: Why did I change the name of the blog? That’s actually two different questions, though. Why did I decide to change the name at all, and why did I change it to Birch & Briar? Why change the name Two reasons,
I’m baaaaa-ack! Hello, world, once again! I’ve been trying to write this post for 1.5 years. The vision I’ve had to stand proudly before you, laying out a grand plan of exactly what I’m going to post about, on a wonderfully steady posting schedule, with a long list of tantalizing photos and snippets of things
This post is a bunch of random photos of recent happenings in my life. First is a series of photos from the first time my cats followed me on a walk! The first walk, I got two streets over before they got skittish and wanted to go back home. The second time, I got a
Moira brought three kittens to Border War, a local SCA event. They were definitely the stars of the day! This post is entirely gratuitous kitten photos with me and my friends. In case you’re wondering, this patched hood is the same linen hood that was in this post of me blacksmithing. It has worn down
It’s been over two years since I started designing my storage case for my Dominion cards. I finished making it in May of 2015, and it’s had a year of solid use before these pictures were taken. Let me tell you: it works, and it’s awesome. I’ve ironed out the couple bugs it had (one
Welcome to everyone who talked to me at U-Con last weekend! I sincerely enjoyed meeting all of you. Having a merchant booth for the first time was a great experience. I’m currently aiming to repeat this at Penguicon in April, and maybe some other conventions. Until then, you can always buy many of the same
Did I put enough exclamation points on the header for this post? I’m not sure it adequately expresses my excitement. THE SHOP IS OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s better, isn’t it? There’s a new link at the top of this website (two actually – I finally linked to my Facebook page in addition to the new shop), because