Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Nov 5, 2009, 9:20 am
I get blog crushes. Does anybody else do this? Periodically I'll zero in on one of the many (many many) blogs I follow, and become a wee bit stalker-ish. My already undying bloggy admiration will ...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Nov 4, 2009, 12:32 pm
Three weeks to go. Progress has been slow lately, mainly due to Halloween and its attendant festivities. New desk has a fresh coat of snowy white primer, and is in the process of donning a mantel of...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Nov 2, 2009, 1:15 pm
You know what I love? The start of daylight savings time. Oh sure, reality will hit me when I drive home with my headlights on tonight, but for right now, the romance is sweet. Did anyone else go to b...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 30, 2009, 9:26 am
I'm not someone known for brilliant, exciting Halloween costumes. I tend to aim for something instantly recognizable (god forbid someone doesn't "get" my costume), which often lands me on the...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 29, 2009, 9:10 am
It's waiting for me when I get home from work tonight. The new desk, freshly sanded, and also a quart of greenish grayish paint ready for brushing. I'm trying to get over my love affair with ...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 28, 2009, 9:21 am
Thanksgiving progress update: four weeks out. Some pretty corners beginning to emerge around the house. Ceramic birds perching on ledges. To-do lists overpopulating on the dining room table. Hours ...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 26, 2009, 9:57 am
I'd begun to lose hope that we'd get another day like this. October was unusually cold, dark, and rainy in these parts (this seems to be the theme for the year...), and once we got past mid-m...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 23, 2009, 11:31 am
This was the scene on my dining room table yesterday evening. It isn't always clean and tidy. (Rarely, in fact.) Oftentimes it's the scene of an epic battle between sewing projects and squa...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 22, 2009, 11:09 am
So, you know what we haven't had in awhile? A recipe. Remember back when food used to be one of the things this blog was about? A few things conspired to push me away from kitchen-blogging: ...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 21, 2009, 11:23 am
Would you like to hear an excuse for where I've been the past three weeks? I could come up with one, I'm sure, but it would sound pretty pathetic. Blah blah blah, family events, blah blah bl...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 5, 2009, 5:14 pm
The pictures tell the story better than words ever could. So I'll leave you to them: It was everything an October hike should be.
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Oct 2, 2009, 11:43 am
Nothing like coming home to a 58-degree house to inspire one to turn on the oven. Since this week has brought us lows in the 30s, there's been a lot of baking going on at our house. A lot of bak...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 30, 2009, 2:03 pm
Autumn brings an irresistable urge to bake, and treats to go with it. Behold, for my kitchen has been taken over by oven mitts, brown sugar, and cinnamon-y goodness. This was the pear-cranberry cris...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 28, 2009, 5:29 pm
Stockings-- one of my favorite things about fall. I love them coiled all snailish and sweet. They'll be keeping the knees of this die-hard skirt-wearer warm on many a chilly autumn night.
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 27, 2009, 1:47 pm
This is one of the best things: a cold rainy fall day, a warm kitchen with a whistling tea kettle. I just spent the better part of the day in there, puttering away and humming, listening to some of m...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 25, 2009, 4:04 pm
Putting squash in baskets. That's just one of those autumn things, isn't it? At least around these parts. Also, I got my favorite table runner out of its drawer. I own exactly four table r...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 24, 2009, 3:59 pm
Today I filled jars and freezer bags, stuffing in as much summer as I could. By noon, scarlet jars lined the countertops, a sauce-pot sputtered on the stove, and every window in the house was covered...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 23, 2009, 3:20 pm
We are back from the beach, and ready to launch ourselves headlong into autumn. It felt like a good transition point, three sandy days to take in the sun and reflect on our summer. Back home, the leav...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 19, 2009, 7:46 pm
Jersey shore, here we come. For the next three days, I plan on emulating this guy as much as possible. Sunshine? Check. Immotility? Check. Smile? Check. Back Wednesday.
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 16, 2009, 2:08 pm
It was a fitful night. I suppose I should've known better than to spend time poring over old Anthropologie catalogs and this gorgeous blog while in bed, but suffice to say it was a bad idea. My br...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 15, 2009, 1:00 pm
What is it about old cemeteries? Patrick and I have a bit of a fascination. We like to head for them on Saturday mornings, choosing one or two we haven't yet explored from one of the tucked-away...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 10, 2009, 9:20 am
This is Wine Night. When the weather is benevolent, it looks like this: upstairs porch, feet on the railing, twilight. After it gets dark, we turn on the twinkle lights (which you can't see in t...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 9, 2009, 9:01 am
My attempt to hop back on the blogging bandwagon last week was stymied by the whirlwind arrival of a late-summer cold. And, as much as colds are icky and annoying, isn't there also something sort ...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 3, 2009, 8:27 am
Gone is my love for zucchini. This happens every year: in May, I yearn for those first supple little slices, meltingly tasty and bright green. In July, I celebrate the first garden zucchini almost a...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Sep 2, 2009, 8:32 am
Fall seems to have settled in early this year. As unannounced as a crazy uncle moving into your spare bedroom, suddenly there's touches of bronze on the leaves, the mornings are foggy, the berries...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 24, 2009, 8:59 am
We saw Julie & Julia this weekend. It was fantastic. I found myself relating to the Julie character on so many levels-- being young and married and completely without direction, loving food and cookin...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 21, 2009, 9:39 am
Big pots on the stove. Sharp knives abundant on flat surfaces. Red ooze on the countertop (and the floor, and the cabinets, and the walls...). It's tomato season. When I spied those first rank...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 20, 2009, 8:30 am
Unlike some places, Binghamton, NY is not a town known for its pizza. Spiedies, yes. Pierogies, yes. Those are much-celebrated regional specialties. There are festivals in their honor, okay? Big deal....
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 19, 2009, 11:49 am
You know that feeling, the feeling of getting back to something without realizing you'd been missing it terribly? That was me, this morning, sitting in the rocking chair and watching the birds, (...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 18, 2009, 8:13 am
Who ever would've thought that tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and onions in a blender with oil and vinegar would taste so good? It's pure magic. On Saturday night, I made fancied-up gazpacho,...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 17, 2009, 9:46 am
Oh, do I have a penchant for working under pressure. I'm not the type who can let a free summer weekend go without contriving some event to fit inside it. What I mean is, on the rare weekends wher...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 13, 2009, 8:16 am
...off. To go here. Be back Monday. :)
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 10, 2009, 8:57 am
There's nothing to say here. This one is a complete, instinctual, no-brainer of a recipe. Easy, fast, and good for summertime. I can recommend a light, crunchy salad of some sort and warm bread...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 7, 2009, 9:30 am
Howdy! I'm Ida, the Frog Pond Goat, or FPG if you'd prefer. It's pretty nice here. Sometimes there's lots of people, and sometimes, like early on Friday mornings, there's just one...
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Kristina S. posted an article on Sweetfern Handmade - Aug 6, 2009, 8:18 am
This is it. If you're like me, and you live someplace where it's been a coldish and very rainish sort of summer, well then, you've been sitting on your hands all summer. You've been pi...
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