Herbal PILLOWS

Made with a blend of organic herbs including Lavender, Lemonbalm, Mugwort, Chamomile, Mint & Rose.

My "Herbal Pillows" are the perfect size to tuck under your pillow at night. Enjoy the wonderful aroma of soothing herbs~

Crazy making Candles!!

Whoohoo~ This week has been FUN!!
Web Orders, Gardening & LOTS of Candle Making :)
I get so excited about my new scents & I'm trying really hard to get into the "Fall" mood. I can't believe I'm selling NOEL candles in July :)

There's more candles & tarts coming soon~~

Snazzy Zucchini Bread

I was just about to bring one of my freshly baked zucchini breads over to the neighbors when I decided it needed a little "something". So I snipped off a tansy leaf and turned it into a stencil~ Sprinkled on some powdered sugar & now they are Pretty too :)

Zucchini Bread

It happened again!! I went out into the lower field to weed the Pumpkin & Squash Patch and found some GIANT zucchini's lurking under there! How did they get away from me? They were tiny just the other day :) Thank goodness it rained today and I am able to make a bunch of Yummy Zucchini Breads!



Here's my ZUCCHINI BREAD recipe~

• 3 1/4 cups organic white-wheat flour (king Arthur brand)
• 1 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 tablespoon ground organic cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground organic clove
• 1 teaspoon ground organic ginger
• 1 inch piece fresh ginger root chopped very fine
• 1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
• 2 ½ cups organic sugar
• 1 cup organic canola oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/3 cup water
• 3 cups grated zucchini
• 1 teaspoon organic lemon juice
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, clove, ginger powder & chopped ginger, plus sugar. In a separate bowl, combine oil, eggs, water, zucchini, vanilla extract and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into dry, add nuts and fold in. Spray your choice of pan with nonstick spray. Loaf pans will take about 50 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Muffins take about 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.

Stevia can be substituted for sugar. Stevia is an herb that doesn't effect blood sugar and has 0 calories. Just follow the directions on the package to substitute for sugar~

New Cottage Garden

We had this patch of grass near the driveway that was "Calling-Out" to be a Cottage Garden.

(Of course I was the only one that heard this calling)

To me this area was just an ugly, useless piece of grass that had to be mowed every week and did nothing for me~  So when the escavator was here finishing up work for the new barn I tossed out the idea of scraping up that grass section for me.  After that was done, my sweety took the tractor on many, many trips to the neighbors farm.  He filled this space up with composted manure~  and then tilled it.      YIPPEE!!!!! 
(I should mention that we discovered the old gravel driveway under here..yikes)
And of course I did the dirty work of picking out a gazillion (or more) rocks and spreading all that manure~ Yes, I was still very excited!!

Here's a picture of the patch being worked on ~

Here's one month Later~

My pictures don't do the flowers justice, but it gives an idea of how it looks.  I love to come sit here for a few minutes in the morning before work.  Spooky usually follows me and munches on the assortment of cat mints while we both watch the barn swallows swoop into the car barn.

I'll take more pics as the seasons change and everything gets full~  Just wanted to share this garden because I know there's lots of us that have patches of boring grass that we'd love to turn into something Magical, but just need the Gentle Push :)

Baby Barn Swallow

After returning this little guy back into the nest TWICE already, (with gloves) I was minding my own business, watering the garden when I looked up and here he was "attempting" to fly right towards me, with his mother chasing him!! He zig-zagged back and forth and then ended up in the radish patch.

Soooo cute!!
We love having the barn swallows live here every year! They are very amusing :)

Late PEONY Harvest

Just harvested these "late" Pink Peonies~ All of these blooms are from only 2 plants (and there's over 40 left) that are growing on the north side of the house so they bloom much later than the other peonies. I'll make bouquets with most of them and dry the rest~

Mmmmmmm they smell Wonderful!!

Monarchs

The Monarch Butterfly's are hatching in the back field and flying all over the yard~~ Love them!

Green & Lush

Just got home from work and thought I'd take a pic at how GREEN everything is!

And in my planter near the mailbox I've got a "Red theme" going on with this large dahlia and red verbenas~

Soooo Happy Spring is Here!!

Patchouli Power

Must be the "Flower Child" in me!!
Here's some of my NEW Patchouli Goodies~

~Patchouli & Amber Soy Candles~

~Patchouli, Lavender & Orris Root Bags~
PEACE :)

Trial size PERFUME

While the sun briefly came out today I was able to get a few shots of my new trial size Perfume~ Love Em!

New "Cottage" Candles

Finished my New COTTAGE Candles today!
I made these in Cucumber-Melon scent~ Yum :)

Here's my larger sized Cottage Candles

NEW "Cottage Collection"

 I decided to put together a collection of natural products that I've been making for myself for years and thought it was time to share~

I gave the packaging a soft, clean, more personal look and call it my "Cottage Collection" 

So far I've got my Natural roll-on Perfumes & my Natural solid Perfumes posted.  Soon I'll be posting my Pure Pillow Sprays, Herbal Pillows & New Cottage Pottery Candles.

I Love em All & am super Excited to offer them!!!

Catnip MICE ~

I recently had these Catnip MICE made with our own Organic Catnip. They came out ADORABLE!!

Spooky Loves hers!

Amber Rose Roll-On

Working on some of my NEW "Cottage Collection" items today. It's much more peaceful to be working out of my home office~ Thought I'd give a "Sneak Peak" of what I'm doing~

Here's my New Amber Rose Roll On Perfume. They'll be available in Sample & Regular size. Made with Pure Amber oil, Rosewood & Rose Absolute oil! Very Feminine & Beautiful~~

Much More to Come within a few weeks & I'll be supplying samples to the Out of The Box Sampler Company again!

Primitive Pottery VOTIVES

Just finished pouring these Soy Wax Votives in my new Primitive Pottery!
They came out GREAT!

Promise of Spring~

The Snowbells are popping their little heads up. Even in this dreary freezing rain. THANK-YOU!

~*~FROSTY~*~

This guy better not come to Life!



I keep checking out the window to make sure he's still where I left him :) He's HUGE & Very HEAVY~ but sooo Adorable!