A Storybook Life

Decorating Pumpkins Without Carving

Picture by Joy - stop by her Flickr page!
Today I wanted to share some more ideas for using pumpkins to decorate your home & garden without having to carve them.
There are so many ways that you could choose to decorate your home for the season. For some reason, when it comes to […]

I wanted to share a recent letter from our email bag. Bill needed some help coming up with a few creative ideas for his new cottage garden project. He is trying to pull together a little cottage garden complete with raised beds and a Victorian style chicken coop, where an old above ground swimming pool […]

Once upon a time…
There was a beautiful garden, found tucked away, deep in a wooded valley.
Journey with me through this wondrous secret garden treasure.
This is the story of Longwood, as seen through my eyes…

* All pictures by Pearl Sanborn (that’s me ;)
I was very thankful to be able to spend the day at Longwood gardens […]

I don’t know how it is in your bit of the world, but in our little forest & surrounding village, the landscape is starting to become radiant with color. It’s almost as if a painter is standing above us, and with quick strokes of his brush, he’s changing everything around us into large swatches of […]

“Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.”
Song of Solomon 7:12
There is something so romantic about a vine that is dripping with clusters of ripe grapes! Sight, smell, taste, thought, texture… […]