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Mother's Day Ideas for Sheltering in Place Safer at Home

Yesterday I was going crazy and had to do something to occupy Otto other than sit him in front of Peppa Pig while I answered more and more emails. It had been a zoom call/stare at your inbox kind of day and with the cold weather this week (and snow) we are all feeling cooped […]

Tips for Celebrating Mothers Day At Home

Lifestyle

Typically we venture up north in Michigan and spend a couple weekends before spring breaks into summer but this year is different due to the stay home orders. I know that we will be able to head back north soon but for now I will not be able to visit my normal foraging spots for […]

Ramp and Gruyere Quiche Recipe

Food & Beverage

Simple and easy brunch quiche

There were no church pews crowded with people in pastels and big easter hats. No scents of fresh spring hyacinths, daffodils, tulips and lilies filling the sanctuary. There was no vibration of voices shaking the walls with hymns of Christ’s resurrection. Just like the grinch who stole Christmas, it felt like for a moment that […]

Easter with Otto at Home

Lifestyle

Toddler Jellypop Easter BUnny Plush toy

The discussion lately in Garden Group (free group on Facebook for all things gardening) is that so many online garden seeds sources are sold out! Territorial Seed closed their website and sent an email that never in their 35 years of business have they ever had this type of overwhelming demand. While I’ll agree this […]

Online Garden Seeds

Farm & Garden

Plant Lady T Shirt from The Found Cottage

It’s an odd year and the Easter Bunny is not excluded from the stay home, stay safe order. I had visions of Otto in his Easter Sunday suit running around with his cousins looking for eggs but that will have to happen next year. Honestly, that is not even the real reason of Easter anyway. […]

Otto’s Easter Basket from Home

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Easter Basket Shopping while Staying Home

Yesterday morning we got a fun surprise in the mail! I had ordered dahlia bulbs around January and completely forgot about them. It was from a flash sale email and the price was too good to resist. ( like always, right?) Well, 30 bulbs might have been a little over zealous but they came in […]

Planting Bulbs for the Garden

Farm & Garden

Heart of a Lion Toddler T shirt planting bulbs in the garden

We are now entering our 22nd day of staying home (with the exception of a car ride). It is easy to feel alone and isolated because well…that is what we are but all of us are so in a way, we’re together in this. If you are able to stay home and doing so, thank […]

Safe at Home

Lifestyle

Toddler at home during Covid 19

The one thing that has always given me refuge in dark times is my garden. It doesn’t matter if it was my small 4×8 bed at our old home in Byron Center, container pots on my patio or my garden now at the farm. There is something about watching seeds burst out of the ground […]

New Seed Starting Product for The Garden

Farm & Garden

Park Seed Bio Dome 80 Cell Double for seed starting

I think we can all agree that things have been a little interesting this month. Fourteen days ago we heard rumblings of Covid-19 entering the United States and eight days ago Joe and I decided to take Otto out of daycare and stay home with him until the threat of this virus has passed. It […]

Grocery delivery from Gordon Food Service Store

Lifestyle

How to order groceries online

I’ve never been one to enjoy scary movies or deep thinking movies. I feel like horror and drama cause way to much anxiety for me. If I am going to watch a movie, I want to laugh and feel good. Especially right now. While we are all home social distancing I thought it would be […]

10 Feel Good Romantic Comedies to Binge Now

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Top Ten Romantic COmedies to binge now

I always like to have citrus on hand in my home. Not only does it come in bright and cheerful colors like vibrant oranges, yellows and greens but it adds an extra zest (literally) to dressings, desserts and dinners. It can be used for household cleaning as well as sprinkling into a muffin. I had […]

No Waste Lemon Curd

Food & Beverage

Zero Waste Lemon Curd

It’s hard not to over order seeds in the winter when everything is gray and snowy. It’s also hard to not order seeds when you are stuck at home social distancing yourself. It’s been astonishing to see the trickle down effects of the virus panics. First the grocery store shelves were ransacked and now even […]

My 2020 Garden Seeds

Farm & Garden

Poppy Seeds Harvested from Previous Years Garden

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I'm abigail albers

Wife and mother, antique shopper, entrepreneur, gardener, sheep lady, sequin enthusiast and your Midwest Martha Stewart Wannabe. 

I am collector of collections and hobbies and I’m so excited to share them all with you here on my little slice of the internet. 

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