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Foodie Friday: How I Reduced Our Food Packaging Waste

Despite a growing movement to reduce food-related packaging (like decreasing use of plastic straws) it seems increasingly like foods are showing up in the grocery store in single-use plastic containers.

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Antique, Inspiration, Vintage and antique

Craigslist Finds Around Boston

Mostly, Craigslist, and I say this as someone who loves (some may say is obsessed with) it, is a big fat waste of time. Occasionally, though, you search and there are so many good things. Since lately I’ve been finding some real gems, I’d thought I’d post these so that someone local can snap them up!

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Inspiration

Five Instagrammers to Follow If You Love Old Houses


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One of my favorite ways to waste time online is by realestalking – checking out homes for sale online that I will never, ever buy. Lucky for me, thanks to these five Instagram accounts I can now spend more time ogling awesome old houses instead of searching through reams of ’80s and ’90s junk on Redfin (side note: WHY were these decades so architecturally cruel???).

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Food, Home

Foodie Friday: The Best French Press Ever

Remember when I went shopping for French press coffee makers after destroying my third glass one? Well, the reviews are in …

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Inspiration, Travel

Design Inspiration: Edson Hill in Stowe, Vermont

I just got back from a long weekend in Vermont, and once again stayed at a great inn, Edson Hill. Originally a 19th century farmhouse, it was converted into an inn then re-done in 2014. It is crazy cozy, homey and beautiful farmhouse with wonderful design (by Boston-based firm Gauthier-Stacy).

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Recipes

Best Roasted Delicata Squash Recipe

If you’re not familiar with Chef John of Foodwishes (and his enormously popular YouTube videos), you are missing out. This is how I discovered how amazing delicata squash is, and how to make it, with a little twist …

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Farm Life, Our Home

The Front Pasture and Home Cleanout Progress

I took some gorgeous photos a few weeks ago of a foggy morning in our front pasture that I wanted to share! I also wanted to give an update of how much “invisible” work has taken place in the last few months, specifically around dealing with our attics, and thought it would be a good excuse to share some pretty photos while dealing with the un-pretty topic of cleaning out dusty junk.

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Before and After, Cautionary Tales, Our Home, Restoration

Installing Our New Cedar Roof and Brass Gutter

So, the bad news is we had a leak in our kitchen. The worse news is that once we started talking to roofers about re-doing our roof, which is cedar shingle, we learned that cedar has a 20% tariff on it right now that makes this bad timing for an already extremely expensive proposition. The even worse news than that is that after having the roofer replace only part of the cedar roof (in hopes that the politicians come to their senses and the price goes back down so we can finish the rest later at a sane cost), we still have a (reduced) leak, and the culprit looks like (drumroll) plumbing. Oh, the joys of homeownership! Come along with me on this journey …

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Food, Recipes

Ten Easy Go-To Whole Food Healthy Snacks for Kids (or Adults)


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Nothing in life is certain but death, taxes, and that kids want snacks. So, so, so many snacks. I fought this pretty hard at first, wanting my kids to eat well at meals which I try to make healthy, spend time on, etc. But once I realized that I can give them snacks that are healthy but require literally no work? Yeah, they get a 3 p.m. snack now to help them along to dinner. And by no work I mean these are one-ingredient whole foods or off the shelf good-for-you items that my kids actually eat.

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Antique, Home, Inspiration

Beautiful American Colonial Home Design by Phoebe Troyer


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I discovered Phoebe Troyer on Pinterest, where she has an amazing board about her home in Ohio that kind of makes me want to paint everything in my house white, trade in my comfy furniture for classic ladderback chairs, and upholster everything in linen.

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