Christmas Decor Inspiration
Each year I love to visit West End Nursery in downtown San Rafael CA, for a little Christmas Decor Inspiration
Cheap & Easy Halloween Hunt Treats
Halloween isn't canceled this year, it's just different. This year why not try a Halloween Hunt in your backyard.
Easy Front Yard Halloween Decorations
I absolutely love easy front yard Halloween decorations. I am not in the least bit artistic, so the method I am about to show you is both easy and cheap! This method does take a little bit if time, but these are decorations that are easy to make, easy to store, and can be used …
DIY: Spooky Town
Easy Spooky Town Halloween Decoration This is a project I did a few years back and I just love how easy it was to make, and how versatile it is. I like to use the same decorations year after year, but putting them in the same place each year can get boring. I like to …
My Sanctuary My Backyard Garden
A lot of you know me from my blog Book Basset. I started it back in May of 2012. It was merely a way to get free and discounted Kindle books out to people. At first I was very formal, not saying much about myself, only giving brief descriptions of what books to expect in …
DIY: How to Render Beeswax From Honeycomb
An Easy Way to Clean Beeswax There are plenty of different ways to clean the beeswax that you harvest from your bees, and after Rachael did a lot of research and YouTube watching, we decided the easiest method for us was to filter is through very fine cheesecloth in hot water. It’s a bit time …
Quarantine Home Improvement Projects: The Front Yard
The front lawn. A vast wasteland of uninhabitable green spikes. At least that is what I thought of my front lawn. When I looked at the front lawn all I saw were hours spent mowing, and too much money spent watering it. No one played on the lawn. No critters would visit it. It was …
Helleborus: A Fantastic Winter Plant
Helleborus: A Fantastic Winter Plant that blooms Winter through Spring, and provides much needed food for the bees
My Garden Update
It's time for the Daily Garden Update. A garden update? In January? Oh yes! My question is... Is it Spring yet?
Quarryhill Botanical Gardens
“This is not your typical botanical garden. Quarryhill is a wild Asian woodland, intentionally not manicured and featuring one of the largest collections of wild-sourced Asian plants in the world.