How To Bring Your Kitchen To Life!
Home from three weeks of guiding guests through Umbria, Shaye shares the simple, practical ways she breathes life back into a tired kitchen — from fresh air and a rising loaf to a well-stocked harvest table.
Contentment Is Our Medicine
On why I refuse to waste my life being ticked off: choosing contentment, gratitude, and joy in the ordinary, everyday moments of home and family.
My Morning "Routine"
My morning 'routine'... it's not what you think. A peek at how my days really begin at the cottage.
Sleeping With the Same Man, Washing the Same Dishes
On a faithful, steady, and ordinary life: sleeping with the same man, washing the same dishes, and finding deep, quiet joy in the beautiful repetition of home.
Let's get this over with...
Before parsley bouquets and ironed linens, the unglamorous corners. The first, decidedly ugly step of our 90-day mission to fall back in love with our homes.
Care to fall in love with me this summer?
I'm on a 90-day mission to fall back in love with my home (and my life) this summer, and I'd love for you to join me.
The Common Art of Kitchen Work
Chicken salad, stock simmering on the stove, flowers in jars on the counter: the everyday kitchen work of a home cook is its own kind of art. A few thoughts on rescuing the common art of cooking from the daily grind.
The Mess Is the Point
A sick week, a floury floor and a freshly scrubbed counter undone in five minutes. On why the mess is the point, dairy-free biscuits for Georgia, a new cottage video, and dreaming of Italy.
When Life Doesn’t Feel Beautiful
If I could send you a bouquet of daisies, I would. Small, practical ways to steady your spirit and soften your home when life doesn't feel beautiful.
A Hopeful Collection
A year after our weeks in Italy, a bird’s-eye view on the heavy load of modern life and why I’m starting small: seeds, spring baking, a hopeful collection of photographs, and a poem about walking.
When the House Is on Fire, but There’s Work to Do
Notes from a woman of torn devotion: a chaotic house, a full workload, and finding a small bridge between home and the work that makes that life possible.
You're Allowed To Be Ridiculous
I bought seeds for okra that grows twelve feet tall, purely for the delight of it. On loving beautiful, impractical things in the garden and in life, without needing to justify them.
5 Small Ways We Return To Ordinary Days
Coming in for a landing after the holidays: five small ways to enter back into ordinary days well, from pruning the schedule to making ordinary beautiful.
Ending The Year Imperfectly
A backed-up kitchen sink, dirty dishwater on the floor, and a gentle thought for anyone finishing the year unfinished, tangled, and imperfect.
Here are my insecurities...
The pieces that always kept me from belonging, until now. Friend,I was the only one of my sisters who cared to keep a garden - my Mom kindly lending me one of hers to plant and tend to. I went on to work in a European garden…
