I’d like to introduce you to some more in-depth details about my natural care products for your skin and soul. I sell online at my own website store, and also have products listed on Etsy. The same love and energy…
What’s in a name?
I’m scrambling to remember what painting I did that I titled “winged flight”. Yup, I am not sure I know which painting I had entered into a show a while back that I just learned was accepted. Being new to…
Behind the Scenes at the Boulder Farmers Market
I love being a vendor at the Boulder Farmers Market…most of the time. I probably spend way too much time thinking about Saturdays, scanning the weather forecasts, and preparing product. I am in my 4th season and am now having…
Where oh Where have all the bees gone?
The herbs in my garden are abuzz with bees. Not as many as in years past, but I do have them flitting from stamen to pistol and back again. They are attracted to the flowers of the catmint, dandelion and…
Teaching a Watercolor Class in Boulder
I taught my first art lesson, to a group of local Boulder seniors in assisted living! On a whim, I signed up to see if this might be something I would be interested in doing. Take on one more thing?…
A Typical Reiki Session with Blair
What can you expect? Well, there is no “typical” session, and that is part of the beauty and mystery of Reiki. It is a experience that begins as soon as you arrive and it unfolds exactly as it is meant to unfold…
Looking for Herbs in All the “Wrong” Places
Did you know that you might not have to look further than your yard or alleyway for a delicious and nutrient-dense meal? When you eat the plants that grow in hard and nutrient lacking soil–roadside or in sidewalk cracks, for…
Sleeping and Dreaming Herbs
Hops (Humulus lupulus) I can’t think of hops without thinking beer! Hops is a known sedative (a sleeping aid). It grows happily in our yard, covering the chicken coop with its reaching tentacles, the flowers or pestles dangling from the vines. The flowers are green in late…
Happy, Healthy, Herbally Chickens!
Our family has raised chickens for a number of years, but I just learned that chickens can have worms. Yikes! Roundworms, hair worms, tape worms, gapeworms and caecal worms. They live on the ground, and can be transmitted by earthworms…
The Essence of Self Care
Self care is divine. It is our birthright. It is a loving action. What we put in and on our bodies reflect this. There is a vibrancy, a life force that is reflected when one is taking care of him/herself. It…