by Keri | Sep 28, 2014 | food, grocery project, life, simple living, Uncategorized
I don’t like suburbia. It makes me sad with its sticky pavement under beige-and-smog backdrop. There is no joy in the suburbs, only heartache. Only traffic. Only box stores and styrofoam columns covered in a thin layer of peeling stucco. Only open- and...
by Keri | Sep 25, 2014 | food, grocery project, life, peasant foods, simple living
It’s been an incredibly busy week so far, but we still made time for homemade grape juice. We had a bumper crop of Concord grapes at the community garden this year, so Justin & I were able to get just enough to make about a pint of grape juice without...
by Keri | Sep 19, 2014 | food, grocery project, hooping, life, peasant foods
Oh, what a week! We’ve got so many little projects going on, some food-related, many not. The sauerkraut is gurgling away; it has already expanded to the top of the jars. This is all pretty exciting. I’ve been brewing kefir like mad – even made some...
by Keri | May 16, 2014 | art, knitting, life, nature, RRR, simple living
My bag of bags is finally finished! I used probably about 100 one-use plastic bags to make this multi use bag. It took about a month to make, but I wasn’t consistent in knitting time, just little by little. Also, I found that the little produce bags were the...
by Keri | Feb 19, 2014 | life, sewing, simple living
It sounds more revolting than it is. I bought a lovely pattern book a few days ago. It is filled with beautiful, simple, feminine style. And why wouldn’t it be? It’s Japanese! Super great, right? Except all the patterns are drawn for Japanese women, which,...
by Keri | Aug 21, 2013 | life, nature, plants, simple living
I have a few plant projects going right now that I’m most excited about. First, there’s the “avocado forest,” which consists of every avocado pit that our neighbor Stephanie, Justin and I have eaten for probably the last year. There are plants...
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