For those of you that do not already know that I have my own small business, I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about it 😊 Back in 2017 I decided to start my own business making various things but mostly focusing on making laser cut, hand painted jewelry and home decor using the laser cutter that Shawn designed and built from scratch. Here it is during the designing and building process: Shawn's 3D model he created while designing this laser cutter. S

This past weekend Shawn's aunt Sandy and her two boys came to Minnesota to visit with the family (they live in Colorado). While they were here Shawn and I got to hang out with the 3 of them and while Shawn and the older son Kenny were playing video games, the younger son Jason wanted to do crafts and make jewelry with me again! 😊 We started making things with perler beads and he made himself a necklace pendant that he calls “The Avocado of Life!” 🥑 Then we moved on to makin

The Great Minnesota Get-Together runs for twelve days from August 24th - Labor Day (Sept. 4th). It welcomes 2 million guests annually to a world-class showcase of agriculture, entertainment, food, art, science and industry. There's always a ton of things you can do at the Minnesota State Fair like go to the free entertainment shows, do some shopping at some of the 200 vendors, check out some of the hundreds of how-to-demonstrations and exhibits for kids and adults, watch the

In the past 2 years of gardening I have started my seeds indoors in March or April but this year I decided to try something different. Since I had a wedding to go to in New Orleans this year at the end of May and I was going to be gone for 7 days I decided to wait to plant any seeds until after I got back from that trip so that the people that came over to take care of my cat while I was gone didn't have to also water 20+ plants while they were here. 😂 Well, I didn't end up

During my 2nd year of gardening in 2022, I decided to be a bit more prepared when it came time to start my seeds so I came up with a color coded list of all my seeds so that when I would plant each kind of seed I could quickly put a colored tip toothpick into the soil so I would know what it was I planted into each pot instead of having to write down what each one was and taping the name onto the pots. I also decided to plan out which seeds I was going to start indoors and wh