Julie's 1st Blog Post
After a year or so of contemplating blogging, I am finally committing! You see it’s not that I mind talking or writing, its that I find it hard to believe my day-to-day might be exciting enough to read.
Most of you that are reading this right now may be doing so because you became aware of my products in the latest issue of House and Home. I am so excited to have my products featured in one of my absolute favorite decorating magazines.
When I started this journey (Fresh Air Flavours) part of what was driving me was an intense desire to have a different home. Not necessarily a new one, just different. I have learned the saying that “Nothing cures you of loving an old house like living in one” has proven to be VERY true for me. Take that old house, fast forward 10 years add 4 kids, including one set of twins, and you have a desperate woman that has forsaken all romantic notions and has become extremely practical and only wants some (okay many) practical, organized, uncluttered closets!
How ironic then that these products that were to propel me towards that dream are being featured in a magazine next to beautiful, organized homes with closets!
If I didn’t have a different home on the horizon I think it would be too much to bear.
We are getting a different home, which will be arriving in the next 4-6 weeks. If you plan on following my blog, be warned: I may rattle on a bit about the house. It’s been a long wait. We will be situating it on our property overlooking the river valley that inspired me in my desperation to come up with Fresh Air Flavours in the first place. I hope to get computer savvy enough that eventually I can add some pictures to this blog including some of the river valley and my beautifully decorated home and its closets!
Soon fiddlehead season will be upon us. I LOVE that time of year. The forest smells great and I always find some natural treasure hidden somewhere while I am harvesting. I will be sure to find enough room in all of my gear to bring my camera and share my finds with you. One year I found a duck nest in a stump that had been hollowed out by lightening. The duck flew out and nearly had me quading back to the house to change my undergarments. She had carefully selected the stump filled it with grass and then soft feathers before she lay what must have been 8 or more eggs. Another year I found an elk shed and a wild boar skull. Another year my trusty dog irritated a mother bear and then ran to me for help, bringing the bear within 20 feet of me. We later seen her with 3 little cubs. No wonder she was grumpy. I could sympathize with her, as that was the spring my twins were 4 months old!
I will let this be all for my first entry. Spring is one of my favorite times of year so I’m sure I will find lots to yatter on about and start out blogging fairly faithfully.