Oh my goodness, did I have some fun checking out all the garden link-ups from last week! Not only did I see all the progress on your veggie gardens, I got to ooh and aah over the gorgeous flowers blo...
Oh, you guys are awesome! Thanks for all the comments - here, on An Oregon Cottages Facebook page, and through email - about the article on my weight issues. And to think I put it off for so long - I...
Barley is one of those grains I dont always think about making, but when I do I remember how much I like it and that I should make it more often. Its got a nutty, chewy and substantial taste and text...
Well...have you guessed from the title what this is about? Yep, Im about to get real personal here at AOC. And I might as well tell you that I have sat down to write this series of posts on weight ma...
There comes a time in your childs life when you are faced with the moment youve been dreading anticipating preparing for: your little baby is a preteen or teenager who has outgrown that little kid ro...
Happy TGP everyone! If any of you happened to read the Monday update/menu yesterday, you will know that we spent this last weekend working around the acre. We were able to check a lot of things off t...
As I write this Im dead tired - but in a really good way, the way you feel after spending hours getting things done and checking them off the list. Ye-haw! The kids gave me two hours of complain-free...
My favorites today include things Ive found lately through my RSS Reader as well as a couple of articles Ive written for other sites that I wanted to share with you all. One is the delicious cookie p...
Tortilla chips are definitely one of those things that a few years ago I wouldnt have ever thought to make. Think of all the time they would take - all those little triangles! And the mess - oil ever...
One of the first handful of participants here at the Tuesday Garden Party when we started three years ago was Shannan from Traveling Memories. Through the years I have gotten to know her through her ...
Please forgive me if this sounds like another week of complaining, but you know how I said I was sick last week, but then updated to say I was feeling 90% better by Monday? Yeah, that wasnt really th...
Ever since I grew a sourdough starter two years ago, Ive wanted to make a really good loaf of artisan bread with it. Although I waxed poetic about a sourdough loaf I made shortly after beginning to b...
Ahhhh.... Thats me breathing a sigh of relief every time I walk into my workroom now- a room I walk into every day, so you can imagine the impact this has made on me. OK, that sounded way out of pers...
Hello, friends! Im excited today to share with you a readers garden- complete with before and after photos. This is part of the lovely email I received from Kelly: After reading about your garden for...
Ugh. As I sit here writing this, Im still in my PJs - and it almost 3:00 in the afternoon (on Sunday, when Im writing this). I am sick, sick, sick- spent all night writhing about with nausea and gett...
Looking through the photos for my article about updating and refreshing my workroom, I realized that I used many of my favorite vintage finds to organize all the little things that are a part of most...
One of the first posts I wrote for this blog back in 2009 was a step-by-step tutorial for Homemade Whole Grain Pita Bread. It has remained a popular post and is often pinned over at Pinterest. Which ...
Hi awesome gardening friends! Look at some of the great things I found at last weeks TGP: Emily from The Country Mumkin gardens in France (!) and is fighting a wet spring by planting a lot of starts ...
As promised, here is our finished bench we made from two old, broken dining chairs (OK, almost finished, because Im sewing a cushion for it- but no need to get all technical on me...). Im calling it ...
We had another great weekend here. Its the third week in a row of a rain-during-the-week-nice-on the-weekends weather pattern. Not bad. Not bad at all. If it just werent for the track meets - the one...
This White Bean-Dried Tomato Dip was a pleasant surprise the other night. Our menu called for hummus which Im usually able to make because my recipe calls for sesame seeds instead of tahini. However,...
One of the things we made progress on this last weekend (the one with the glorious weather!) was our corner-of-the-huge-deck-shed-t hing turned gazebo. Yes, I know its square, but I dont know what els...
What a glorious weekend we had! It actually got up to 75 degrees on Sunday- and I wore flip-flops! Yes folks, for me that means life is good. {smile} Hard to believe some of you in the east were gett...
I made this cake for our familys Easter Dinner - it was light and lovely and just right for a spring-time celebration. I used Marionberry freezer jam to fill two of the layers and lemon curd for the ...
Here I am on a Thursday, thinking about what post I could have up for Friday (what- you thought I always had them done way in advance? I am SO not that person). I like to have some sort of DIY articl...
Weve recently finished the last few finishing touches on our laundry room (started years ago, but better late than never!) - beadboard molding, floor molding, and cabinet brackets. I still need to pa...
Well dear garden friends, we had the first nice weekend in awhile here and as a result I sit here typing this with sore leg muscles, and aching back and weak fingers - its amazing how pulling weeds c...
Im honored to share with you that An Oregon Cottage is being featured this week over at BlogHer Food! For those visiting from BlogHer, Mondays are always the day I share our menu- plus whatever else ...
We love deviled eggs at our house. Theyre usually one of the things my kids have asked for when its their turn to pick a meal. In fact my daughter recently wanted deviled eggs and bacon for her birth...
Hello, friends! Thought I would alert you some guest posts Ive done recently, in case some of them pique your interest {wink}. See this awesome, large, wood-framed bulletin board pictured abov...
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