Summer of {Mail} Love – Home Stretch Giveaway

by Kathie on September 3, 2010

We’re in the home stretch of the Summer of {Mail} Love challenge.  I hope you’re finding ways to send end of summer / beginning of fall love to folks you know.  If you need a little mail love inspiration, I’ve found a few sites that might help:

  • For those of you, who happen to be calligraphers or artists, check out the Graceful Envelope Contest.  I see the contest for 2011 hasn’t been announced yet, but be sure to check out the winners from previous years if you want to admire some truly incredible envelopes as works of art.
  • The International Union of Mail Artists, is a great way to let a few hours slip by all in the name of inspiration and beauty, of course.
  • Espousing the virtues of the written word both in letters and journals, Letter Lover is fun to peruse.

If you didn’t “officially” participate in the challenge but are thinking about sending a little note to someone, the September Kindness Challenge over at little bits of kindness, happens to be to send an actual letter to someone. 

Envelope Pencil Gift

To celebrate the end of the challenge (but hopefully its just the beginning of your mail love adventures) I’m going to give away two sets of upcycled envelopes.  These will be upcycled from a variety of materials including magazines, newspapers, calendars, construction paper, and more.  The sets will likely include a variety of sizes as well, all suitable for mailing a letter.  Each set will include 12 envelopes.  If you ‘d like to win a set, simply leave a leave a comment on this post.  I will ship them worldwide.  (Please note the photo above is just an example, those sets were given a way a long time ago and I’m not including pencils in this giveaway.)  You have until 5 PM, Mountain Standard Time, on Sunday, September 5th to enter.

How is the summer of mail love going for you?  Any stories you care to share?

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Glut of Green Tomatoes

by Kathie on September 2, 2010

The temperatures were predicted to drop lower into the 30s than I was comfortable with last night.  We decided to pick the bulk of the still green tomatoes and bring them inside to ripen.  We picked about 150 pounds and they’re sitting on the floor of the guest bedroom.  I figure enough will ripen to make some salsa and tomato sauce.  I also figure we’re going to need ideas for using them green.  I’ve been collecting green tomato recipes for a while now.

 Green Tomatoes

If like us, you need a few green tomato recipe ideas, here are a few I’m looking forward to trying:

Do you have any favorite ways / recipes to use up green tomatoes?

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Banner Friends

September 1, 2010

  Someday I might accept sponsors here at Two Frog Home, maybe.  I’m not sure what I want to do about that, there are several things I’m trying to wrap my brain around as I figure that out.  As I play with the idea, I’ve decided to add banners from the blogs, websites, and etsy [...]

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Garden Positives

August 30, 2010

In a summer like this, it would be very easy to focus on the garden failures.  It’s been cold the last few days haven’t been above 65 and the mornings are very cold, dipping to about 38 degrees.  This is August? Some of the winter squash and cucumber leaves are even tinged with black after [...]

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Domestic Saturday

August 28, 2010

It’s been a wonderfully busy and domestic Saturday here at Two Frog Home: That table is chock full of the day’s work.  We’re working on hard on the photography for the cookbook, which of course, means cooking and baking the recipes.  Today there was: A chicken pot pie Peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate frosting Apple [...]

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Garden Envy

August 26, 2010

One of the great things about writing and reading blogs is all the information available with just a click of the mouse.  This is especially for true gardening.  I have access to thousands of home gardeners and their experience to help guide me through my own gardening adventures and tribulations.  However, I admit to having [...]

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Saving Bean Seeds

August 25, 2010

Coleen asked me how she could save seed from her bush beans for next year.  This is something I’ve been doing for years and beans are one of the easiest seeds to save.  It’s also a great way to ensure the health of your own seeds and save a bit of money, too. To save [...]

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Finding Similarity

August 24, 2010

In yesterday’s finding community post, I bragged abit about the women in my simplicity circle.  They are amazing, let me say that; however, I do not want to give the impression that I miraculously found a group of women who believe in and do everything in the same manner as I do.  That’s not the [...]

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Finding Community

August 23, 2010

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.  ~Lady Bird Johnson I’ve always been a huge believer in the value of community and friendships.  However, I haven’t historically done much beyond believe in the necessity of [...]

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Vacation Days

August 20, 2010

I have a four day weekend, it started yesterday.  While I may not be in the office, I’m not really “off” either.  As all of us gardeners know, August is a busy time.  Yesterday I picked and pickled pickling cucumbers, harvested and snapped almost 5 pounds of green beans, which will be canned up today, taught [...]

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