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Cheerful Cloth Napkins and a Giveaway So You Can Have Some Too

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Sometimes the simplest things can make you happy.

Like 20 year old cloth napkins stolen from your mother.

Or actually using all those vintage handkerchiefs for something.

Trading seeds for napkins on etsy is also nice.

As is receiving kitchy gifts in the mail from Rosa.

Matching dishes with napkins is strangely satisfying.

Gillian of Craftzilla agrees and she’s whipped up these charming summertime cloth napkins for one of my readers. Simply visit her new etsy shop and then come back here and share either what you like best in her shop or one of your simple summer pleasures. Like napkins, or mismatched spoons. Don’t forget to include your email or twitter handle so we can find you if you win. We’ll pick a winner at random on Friday September 2nd, 2011.

Tags: cloth, eco-friendly, etsy, giveaway, napkins
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How to Have a Perfect Day

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Take 1 mini muffin tin

add 8 types of heirloom beans

and 1 bad cat

and a mother with a new lens

for hours of pure bliss.

Hours (!) of bean sorting by Rebecca and bean chasing by Zooey.

My gorgeous beans all mixed up.

May Flower and Poltschka Pole Beans. I think they are sorted by size.

Gold Rush and Cannellino Beans sorted by colour.

Poltschka beans from the populuxe seed bank.

The sun even came out just in time to build the beans some trellises much to Hazel’s dismay. She was pretty sure we went to the park to bring her home a stroller full of sticks.

Zooey guarding his bee house and the first new bean trellis.

Then she took a miracle nap.

So I got to admire our great find…

…and play with the new macro lens.

If you need some of your own beans, please check out the Seed Bank’s Etsy shop. All money raised from the selling of heirloom seeds go towards supporting the seed bank’s efforts to preserve heirloom varieties.