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Category: Ethos

  • October Happenings

    October Happenings

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    Behold: Toad from Mario Brothers, Pippilotta Delicastessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking, and an anonymous fearsome female archer. If you recall from hints in my earlier post, the only items purchased new for the girls were pipe-cleaners, for the Pippi braids, and green Rit dye, to provide our archer the look she was after. Little man’s…

  • Halloween Throwback

    Halloween Throwback

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    I rustled up some vintage Halloween pics to share with y’all on this fine Throwback Thursday. Back in 2014, we are prepped & ready to hit the ‘hood in similar 1980’s-fashion. Because: this. For more throwback pics of Halloweens past, check out this post I wrote a few weeks ago.

  • How to Drink Coffee the Right Way

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    I just stumbled upon this video from the creators/talent behind the ever funny-’cause-it’s-true Portlandia. It’s fantastic, and since I’m the boss of this blog I’m going to insist you watch it– because I stand behind everything they say here. 😉

  • Tinkers

    Tinkers

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    I have this Bestie– she was clearly born in the wrong decade. Her innate resourcefulness rivals those hailing from the Depression era. She inspires me. She never throws anything away. I have affectionately dubbed her The Tinker Fairy*, the hammer her signature emoticon. Besides regularly making her own cheese crackers, dish-washer detergent, and soup noodles from scratch,…

  • Counterfeit Farmgirl

    Counterfeit Farmgirl

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    Have you read the charming memoir, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farmgirl? It’s been years, but stuck with me, and I highly recommend it– a humorous Uppity-New-Yorker-abandons-city-life-and-embarks-upon-the-family-farm tale, which accidentally convinces the reader to follow suite though attempting to dissuade in jest. Good stuff. I suppose her title is a fair moniker for myself, these days, as I regularly…

  • Living Large in a (Relatively) Small Space

    Living Large in a (Relatively) Small Space

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    Have y’all caught wind of the Small Living movement that appears to be gaining counter-cultural momentum? I am constantly inspired/challenged by articles such as this one, this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, especially this one, and even this crazy one. I’m borderline obsessed. When my family relocated to Bozeman two years…

  • People

    People

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    After a grueling morning of fourth and second grade math (don’t even), a leisurely trip to Target was decidedly merited. There was good news and bad news awaiting me there, yesterday afternoon. The good news was this: The bad news: The same People magazine from last week was still on the shelves at the checkout.…

  • Serving in the Childrearing Years

    Serving in the Childrearing Years

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    We’re off to bear country to camp in tents this weekend… yippee! Best part is, we’re splitting the distance between our home in Bozeman and our Besties’ in Spokane to make a big party of it. These friends are the kind that are just easy to be with. Effortless and authentic fellowship, zero pretense. Proverbs 27 iron-sharpening-iron…

  • Cosplay {All Hallows Eve Edition}

    Cosplay {All Hallows Eve Edition}

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    With birthday season officially over in our household, I’ve set my sights squarely on Halloween. I know, I know… it isn’t even fall yet! I don’t care. Handsome Husband is not really a fan of this particular holiday (Which I speculate might have something to do with the scarring Halloween incident of 1983, wherein a full-grown man clad in…