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Harvest by Stefani Bittner and Alethea Harampolis

Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko About the book: A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal...

The Curse of Pride

Pride is something we may have heard mentioned time and time again. But not until a couple years ago did I realize what it truly was. I wanted to make no mistakes. I wanted my children to make no mistakes. I wanted to have a very clean house and keep up with...

A Slow Burn…

There are times in life when comments really can eat away at you. I am a fairly even tempered person. I can get frustrated on occasion with the normal things in life, messes, children that argue, things that do not seem to go right. But I more often tend to have...

Spring Fling Learning

Spring Fling Learning By Martha Artyomenko Spring brings its own challenges to learning, but learning to roll with it and take advantage can help keep the learning happening when everyone wants to be outside. -Garden planning: Pull out those seed catalogs, botany...

Shine Like the Dawn by Carrie Turansky

Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko About the book:   In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmother’s millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister. Several years earlier, a terrible event...

A Stranger at Fellsworth by Sarah Ladd

  Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko Description: Could losing everything be the best thing to happen to Annabelle Thorley? In the fallout of her deceased father’s financial ruin, Annabelle’s prospects are looking bleak. Her fiancé has called off their betrothal, and...

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