IG: Woweeee 😲 My most recently bloomed zinnia is so fluorescent that it doesn’t look real. I did absolutely nothing to this photo— this is actually what it looks like!! Hot hot hot pink on the outside petals that tapers to a fluorescent purple on the inside. How AMAZING is that? Today I’m grateful for the gifts, like this, that nature freely provides. As we move into the weekend, is there anything specific you’re feeling grateful for?

Woweeee 😲
My most recently bloomed zinnia is so fluorescent that it doesn’t look real.
I did absolutely nothing to this photo— this is actually what it looks like!! Hot hot hot pink on the outside petals that tapers to a fluorescent purple on the inside.
How AMAZING is that?
Today I’m grateful for the gifts, like this, that nature freely provides.
As we move into the weekend, is there anything specific you’re feeling grateful for? ✨
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#happyfriday #zinnias #nofilter

IG: ✨Our new home already had amazing vibes & energy (one of the many reasons it won us over), but we blessed it with an extensive smudging anyway. Not familiar with smudging? Smudging is a symbolic exercise common to feng shui practice, many native American traditions, and alternative healing practices. It involves burning selected herbs or other materials in a manner that fills the home or other space with the fragrance of the smoke and is thought to cleanse, clear negative energy, bless and heal. We chose to smudge with a wand blended of sage (to bless, heal, clear) sweetgrass (to purify, heal, clear and bring positive energy) and cedar (to bless, protect, ground and balance) with a bonus side of palo santo (aka holy wood— to clear, heal and bring good fortune). ✨ Do you smudge? When is your favourite time to smudge?

✨Our new home already had amazing vibes & energy (one of the many reasons it won us over), but we blessed it with an extensive smudging anyway.
Not familiar with smudging?
Smudging is a symbolic exercise common to feng shui practice, many native American traditions, and alternative healing practices. It involves burning selected herbs or other materials in a manner that fills the home or other space with the fragrance of the smoke and is thought to cleanse, clear negative energy, bless and heal.
We chose to smudge with a wand blended of sage (to bless, heal, clear) sweetgrass (to purify, heal, clear and bring positive energy) and cedar (to bless, protect, ground and balance) with a bonus side of palo santo (aka holy wood— to clear, heal and bring good fortune). ✨
Do you smudge? When is your favourite time to smudge?

IG: When your new backyard looks, sounds and feels like a beautiful park 😍 Holy shit, I’m in heaven P.s. I just pulled that unruly weed patch. Sorry bees 😔, it was just too ugly. Don’t worry, imma plant a boatload of beautiful flowers for ya

When your new backyard looks, sounds and feels like a beautiful park 😍
Holy shit, I’m in heaven. #pinchme
P.s. I just pulled that unruly weed patch. Sorry bees 😔, it was just too ugly. Don’t worry, imma plant a boatload of beautiful flowers for ya!
#Greensville #Dundas #HamOnt

IG: August, September and early October are when so much of the magic happens in my garden✨. Tomatoes and bloomed flowers bring so much colour to the garden and I loooooove it. It’s total “reap what you sow” (or ‘sowed’) time where you really get to enjoy the “fruits of your labour”— all these sayings must have originated from farmers cuz they’re all so applicable! 😝 Are you enjoying the benefits of all the effort you put in earlier in the year?

August, September and early October are when so much of the magic happens in my garden✨.
Tomatoes and bloomed flowers bring so much colour to the garden and I loooooove it. It’s total “reap what you sow” (or ‘sowed’) time where you really get to enjoy the “fruits of your labour”— all these sayings must have originated from farmers cuz they’re all so applicable! 😝
Are you enjoying the benefits of all the effort you put in earlier in the year?

IG: The energy that plants give to a living space is amazing 🌱✨ When Jeff and I traveled for 5.5 months this past fall + winter, I transported all my plants to an amazing friends’ home so she could care for them while we were away. After moving them all out, I came back to a home that felt very different—so much less cozy and warm and comfortable. Without the plants, our home was still our home, but the energy was different. I’ve always loved indoor plants but that experience really showed me firsthand just how much good energy plants add to a living space. We chose a new home with a ton of natural light so I can fill it with plants for year-round greenery and all the best vibes. We’re still in the old home for now, but every day I enjoy the company of plants like my yucca here (right) and my dracaena (left) 😍. If you don’t have house plants, I encourage you to add some to your space to give your home the best feels!

The energy that plants give to a living space is amazing 🌱✨
When Jeff and I traveled for 5.5 months this past fall + winter, I transported all my plants to an amazing friends’ home so she could care for them while we were away.
After moving them all out, I came back to a home that felt very different—so much less cozy and warm and comfortable. Without the plants, our home was still our home, but the energy was different.
I’ve always loved indoor plants but that experience really showed me firsthand just how much good energy plants add to a living space.
We chose a new home with a ton of natural light so I can fill it with plants for year-round greenery and all the best vibes.
We’re still in the old home for now, but every day I enjoy the company of plants like my yucca here (right) and my dracaena (left) 😍.
If you don’t have house plants, I encourage you to add some to your space to give your home the best feels!

IG: Today’s HAUL 😍 Big bundle of chocolate mint to dry for winter tea, pickling cukes, kalez, tomatoes and cucamelons. Truth be told, my cucamelons (and ground cherries🤤) pretty much never even make it into the house because they’re my gardening fuel and I snack as I go! Are you harvesting anything this week?

Today’s HAUL 😍
Big bundle of chocolate mint to dry for winter tea, pickling cukes, kalez, tomatoes and cucamelons.
Truth be told, my cucamelons (and ground cherries🤤) pretty much never even make it into the house because they’re my gardening fuel and I snack as I go!
Are you harvesting anything this week?

IG: RIPEN!!!! 😁😁😁😁 I saved these seeds 2 years ago from somewhere… I wish I remembered… but they produce some beautiful, dark purply, anti-oxidant rich tomatoes that I LOVE. And I’m trying to be patient while this beautiful cluster matures, but at the rate my tomatoes are being gobbled by squirrels, who knows if they’ll survive ☹️ Fingies crossed 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

RIPEN!!!! 😁😁😁😁
I saved these seeds 2 years ago from somewhere… I wish I remembered… but they produce some beautiful, dark purply, anti-oxidant rich tomatoes that I LOVE.
And I’m trying to be patient while this beautiful cluster matures, but at the rate my tomatoes are being gobbled by squirrels, who knows if they’ll survive ☹️
Fingies crossed 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

IG: 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 If I don’t pick them right as they’re just starting to ripen red (or whatever colour they’re destined to be at ripeness), they get munched up by squirrels and sometimes raccoons. Actually, the squirrels have been eating a lot of my unripe green ones recently even ☹️ Windowsill ripening is the best option we gots for now. At least when you make a rainbow, it’s that much more fun 🌈

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If I don’t pick them right as they’re just starting to ripen red (or whatever colour they’re destined to be at ripeness), they get munched up by squirrels and sometimes raccoons. Actually, the squirrels have been eating a lot of my unripe green ones recently even ☹️
Windowsill ripening is the best option we gots for now. At least when you make a rainbow, it’s that much more fun 🌈