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Since I just opened an Etsy shop—with one product so niche that most people would never think to search for it—I have started applying for small business grants. I have a slight advantage as a female veteran, but that only gets my foot in the door. A strong application still has to stand on its…
Disclaimer: I am not an expert. So, I write this post based on a love of whisky. Back when I had multiple topics in one commonplace book (which sounds horrible now), I had a dedicated section on whisky. I learned about the distillation process, the different types, and the various Scotch-producing regions. I spent some…
The garden compendium was originally meant to be a catch-all. It included medicinal herbs with drawings, uses, and recipes; planting, care, and harvest instructions for all of the herbs and vegetables I planted; a diagram of this year’s layout; a planting calendar; and a journal of what I did, what happened, and how I could…
No matter how much research I did before planting my garden (and I’m certainly not finished), there were still plenty of surprises. Some things completely failed, while others did far better than I ever imagined. I organized my garden into separate beds based on companion planting, water needs, soil type, and a handful of other…
One of the things I’ve realized this year is that I don’t really collect hobbies. From the outside, it probably looks like I bounce from one thing to another. Gardening. Bookbinding. Norwegian. Citation templates. Herbs. Cocktails. Ancient history. They’re all over the place. To me, though, they’re all the same hobby. I like understanding how…
Recently, the fam and I took a trip to Southern California to ride some roller coasters. Before we even left, we knew the main park had two restaurants with Beyond burgers. At this point, that’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect. I was actually excited that one of those restaurants was Johnny Rockets. The…
I first learned about commonplace books while reading the second book of A Discovery of Witches. It sounded like such a cool idea. I immediately found an unused notebook in my inventory and started carrying it around. I had been told that one simply writes down anything interesting. Unfortunately, I wasn’t finding anything interesting at…
After weeks of weeding and sending good thoughts into the universe, I finally have some legitimate progress in my garden. My calendula and borage are starting to bloom. It’s a small thing, but it is so nice to see something that isn’t a weed. The borage is starting to bloom, too. Speaking of weeds… I…
I think a lot of us are taught that life follows a fairly straightforward path: go to college right after high school, find a career, and work forty or more hours a week until retirement. I never really followed that plan, and for a long time I felt like I had somehow done life incorrectly.…
I had an idea for an Etsy product several weeks ago, but life happened and I had to put it on the back burner for a bit. But! I finally finished it, created my Etsy store, and listed my first product. I have felt very overwhelmed during this process. Yesterday, I decided that I didn’t…
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