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About Chelsea

I am a small town girl. I came to Austin to study at The University of Texas, and a very handsome boy sat behind me in class. I love baking, sewing, watching movies, laughing, and willing my plants to grow.

things that caught my eye/ thirteen

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Some things I found this week:

If you are a Harry Potter person, finally you can learn what this is.
I want to make these fruit filled muffins.
Pretty sure 50% of my bathing suits have polka dots.Why not one more?
We have a bunch of these living in a tree in the backyard, and I want to bring some inside, and hang them from these triangle looking hanging planters.
We have SO much basil right now. Finding lots of things to make with it.

We are going on a pie date this evening (in one of my new shirts!), we have a 4-year-old’s batman pool party on Saturday, and we need to fertilize our garden after all the thunderstorms. Have a good one!

sewing machine

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I’m trying out a couple new shirt patterns this week, which means we had to go get some fabric. Oh darn. I get really sucked into sewing. Following the pattern, moving on to the next step, and the next and the next until its magically all done. I have to remind myself to stop to eat. We’ll see how many pieces I can finish this week!

new in the shop: woven notebook

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I am a notorious list maker. My work space gets covered in little sticky notes throughout the days and week, and then I collect and categorize them in notebooks. My favorite notebooks have pretty covers, so I don’t lose them. This notebook has a cool woven cover to make it extra special.

Its a kit, if you were looking to try your hand at weaving on a small scale! I wanted to use the fun yellow color, and ended up with an upside down pineapple, just in time for summer.

a preview of summer evenings

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We had some 90 degree days last weekend. Thank goodness our backyard has some nice big trees, and I swear it stays like 20 degrees cooler back there. We take our warm evenings on the back porch with a side of ice cream. Which got me thinking about all the cool summer treats coming up right around the corner! (even though it is super thunder/rain stormy at the moment)

Some popsicle recipes to try soon: lemon and raspberry yogurt with super cute wooden sticks, neopolitan always reminds me of birthdays, classic vanilla pudding, and pretty purple blueberry greek yogurt popsicles.

These ice cream cones are still the best. We used to open them over the sink, so the little nuts didn’t go everywhere. Sometimes I wonder what foods our children will remember.

things that caught my eye/ twelve

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Some things I found this week:

Speaking of molasses and pecans.
I want to sew a simple tshirt, and add these tulip sleeves.
Yum looking granola recipe.
I loved overalls when I was younger. They are my garden clothes in my dreams.
One of my fave instagram accounts.

I think it will be a pretty stressful weekend over here. We have to watch our grass seeds grow, look out for thunderstorms, and drink iced tea. Maybe go wander around the botanical garden if its not too humid out. So if you need us, we’ll be very, very busy.

How pretty is this little grower here. I enjoy the tiny hint of hot pink leaves.

sourdough/ week nine

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I’d like to show you a picture of my latest loaf of bread, but this is all that’s left.

jk, There is still almost half left. We aren’t monsters.

This recipe is somewhat my own concoction, pecan sourdough bread. Its based on a recipe for walnut bread, but we have a lot of pecans, so I wanted to use those instead. We also ran out of honey, so I subbed in some molasses instead. Smelled sooo good while it was in the oven, and our toast this week has been on par. I think next week I might try some spelt bread, or some other kind of cool kid grain.

how does your garden grow

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It is like magic watching a garden grow. One day, its a tiny little plant. And then you look again, its two feet taller or growing food. Ah-mazing.

I’ve been fondly scrolling through garden photos from 2 weeks ago, and seeing how much they have grown. I can only imagine what I will be like when I have a real baby.

There are a couple new notebooks in the shop to keep track of garden progress, planting plans, or grocery lists!

a banner year

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We’ve lived in our house together and been married for almost a year, so it was time to add our family crest to the place.

I pay way too much attention to the back of my embroidery. Especially since it was covered up anyway. I just don’t want people in the 18th century to think I had loose morals because the back of my embroidery is all messy.

This kind of embroidery is the most fun. If I was around in the 18th century, I would have been cranking out the embroidery.

When that part was finished, I asked it what it felt like being. It said a flag, so then came some triangle math.

I used more leftover wedding fabric scraps for the back. It seemed fitting.

Then I sewed it all up, added some hanger loops, and stitched the edges. And someday, if someone rips it all apart, they will see how neat the back of my work looks.

what weekends are made of

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We decided that this weekend was a pecan pie. Armed with a big bag of pecans, I got right to work on Saturday morning. Pecan pies scare me a little bit, since I didn’t grow up with them, and am not technically 100% sure what the consistency is supposed to be. But since my guy sure loves them, I need to teach myself to be unscared of them.

I followed part of the filling recipe from here. I like dark chocolate, and happened to have a bar of it.

We spent a lot of the weekend doing yardwork, which means you earn an extra big piece of pie in the evening. I think that is a rule somewhere.

things that caught my eye/ eleven

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Some things I found this week:

What to do with all those long fabric scraps
Would be an adorable wedding gift
Going to need this for all the herbs we’re growing
I wish this was still available. Pickles are my favorite.
I’m having trouble deciding between this cookie and this one.

We are getting quite the recognition from the neighbors for our front yard makeover. We have been basking in the glow all week, but its time to start the backyard this weekend. We’ll probably need more rice krispie treat fuel. And if you are looking for a gift for garden lovers, I have some new notebooks in the shop!

Here is a picture of our growing little snap peas, and we all hope you have a nice weekend!