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@bghandmade

Gardening, homesteading and handmade paper!

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Jan 4, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

Herbal tea mix!

Each winter we have a daily ritual of making a pot of herbal tea. We drink some for breakfast, some for lunch and some after dinner time. The aim is not focused on medicine, even if all the herbs cer…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Nov 14, 2019, 10:10 PM UTC

Counting stats!

Ok, not really! 😂 But almost! We're working on a Christmas card order for an old time customer. The card will combine handmade paper as well as Italian watercolor paper - lightly textured and with c…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Nov 9, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

Bales of straw delivered!

Our future next door neighbours (they will be actual neighbours once our house is finished) are small scale grain farmers. They lease about 250 acres farmland which they plant with corn, sunflower an…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Oct 30, 2019, 12:22 PM UTC

Colorful medicine!

Ok so seeing that my last post about hot foil stamping did not get any interest from you guys I suppose I'll have to go back to gardening posts! Today I have a single photo post for you! But what a p…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Oct 23, 2019, 9:41 AM UTC

Hot foil stamping in gold!

This week we had a very nice project to work on! OK it was not one of the handmade paper creations we usually do, but still very pleasing. We had the chance to use our foil hot stamping machine! We u…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Oct 17, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

A really (s)crap wood table - a first for us!

A few months ago I posted about a scrap wood table we were hoping to make. More back story in my post! Just to add a few details. All the wood you can get here is really scrap but without the S. I se…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Oct 14, 2019, 8:39 PM UTC

Peppers and tomatoes in our summer garden

Ok so I've been building up the suspense 😂 with summer photos of the garden and soon will post the final few photos before I come to present day! That will be a relief as I won't struggle with sorti…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Oct 12, 2019, 8:52 PM UTC

Saving tomato seeds

Each year in the height of the summer our most important task is saving the seeds of all tomato varieties we grow. Generally saving seeds is an easy and pleasant activity in the garden. However with…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Oct 7, 2019, 7:07 PM UTC

More summer harvesting!

Hello, I am continuing with my attempt to post photos I took a while back in the summer. Today I found a nice photo of our regular harvest from the garden. As you can probably tell from the photo tom…

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b & g handmade
@bghandmade Sep 27, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

Natural and pressed handmade paper

It's been a very long time since I posted any of our hand made paper projects! Really it's not on purpose and not because we lack projects. On the contrary, we've had so many orders and projects espe…

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