Branches

 Driftwood Branch Racks for coats, towels, jewelry, or whatever your heart desires. See more here!

Our Kitchen

Just a few sneaky close-ups of our nearly finished kitchen. We're loving the concrete countertops, backsplash and windowsills.

More photos soon.

The Sunday Sparkle

Today we're featured on The Sunday Sparkle, a blog by designer and photographer Stacey Millet-Shay.
We're really happy to take part in her Q&A and share some photos of our family and home!

You can read the article here.

Outpost

We're happy to be the subject of this article in the Lake Spokane Outpost, as part of their Cottage Industry series. Please check it out!

Tree Swing

We're in the midst of a squillion projects around here... but I'm already planning the next one. There are few things Makensey loves more than swinging, and I've been thinking about ways to add a swing set to our backyard while also improving the landscape. I checked out a gardening book at the library last summer which had a section about "adding a touch of whimsy". It was my favorite part of the book. I would love our backyard to feel more like a fairytale and less like... well... a playground.

I found my answer.

A tree swing.

Is there anything more whimsical than a tree swing?

Now, lets see if I can get Justin to do another project :)

Food + Art

Since we've been trying to eat more plant-based meals, we've been planning just about every meal ahead of time and doing our shopping based on a menu. It's the only way to stick with it! My favorite part about menu planning is online research :) ... mainly food blogs. I pin some of my favorite recipes onto my recipe board on Pinterest. Feel free to take a look!

This recipe is from one of my favorite food blogs, The Vegan Stoner.

What's better than food and art combined?!

... and yes, the Avocado Pudding is as good as it looks.

Sneak Peek

Etsy Finds

We're super excited to have been featured in the Etsy Finds Newsletter. Check it out here.

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Terracotta Pendant Lights

by Hand and Eye Studio. Found via Remodelista.

Miles Of Light

I can never get enough of Miles Of Light's nature botanical prints.

Well, technically, I don't have any of them yet... but I might have to go buy some here.

New Shelves!

Finally putting some new things in the shop today.

Also appreciating a nice front page feature:

Happy Valentines Day! <3

Eat Real Food

After watching Forks over Knives and reading The China Study, we've decided to switch to a whole foods plant based lifestyle. We've been slowly transitioning into it for the last year or so, but now that we have lots of family on board and even more motivation, we're getting serious about it!

Meal planning (and eating) has been super fun so far, thanks to some great websites & blogs.

Images via My New Roots.

Title via this poster art by Joe Wirtheim.

Simple Things

• Vintage white restaurant ware set ~ by Pine and Main
• Handpainted beach pebble ~ by theblackbirdsings
• Miniature houses ~ by TheHauntedHollowTree
• Rain drop clock ~ by iluxo

Home...

Working on home projects is the only thing that keeps us from going crazy in the winter. Our next big project: the kitchen. I'm hoping it'll turn out something like this....

New Year...

Justin and I made a trip to the beach just before Christmas to collect lots and lots of new driftwood :) Now that the holidays are over he's had some time to build a few new shelves for the shop, so I've been photographing, editing and posting new items over the past few days.

Here are some of our favorite shelves...

... and this neato little jewelry holder...

... and you can see the rest here.

We've already sold some of the new shelves, and we're pretty excited because tomorrow will be one year since we started the Etsy shop, and we made it to 95 sales today. Soooo close to 100! Yay!