Author Archives: Gwyn Evans

I often feel like I struggle to find good meal ideas. The internet was once useful; now it’s a wasteland of ad-clogged SEO pages. Anyway, last night I needed to do Something With Pork, and came to the idea of mustard. Ended up with a nice recipe from Kitchn, which is a pretty reliable sourceContinue reading “Dinner: Mustard Cider Pork”

In October of 2020, I started actually meaningfully tracking my spending — not a habit I’d managed to build consistently as an adult. But it stuck! And now, two years on, I’m still meticulously tracking everything I spend. In March of 2022, Erik and I bought a house and merged finances, and I applied thoseContinue reading “2022 Budget Retrospective”

On occasion, folks ask some variation of “How do estate sales actually work?” I get it! Before I started dating Erik, I felt similarly. I didn’t really know what estate sales were, or how they worked. You … had to wait in line and get a number? Was it like an auction? What are theContinue reading “Estate Sales: How and Why”

Just before the pandemic began (as a worldwide phenomena — the virus was already active), I attended Leadership Lincoln’s day on Health. As one of the activities, we visited the idea of a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) — a mental health treatment tool. I wrote about it in depth on Facebook (post is friendslocked,Continue reading “Mental Health in January of 2021”

As I wrote about previously, this holiday season I decided to make a tree skirt, based on a Fair-Isle-Meets-Midcentury design. It is finished!! I am beyond pleased with it. The colors, shapes, sparkle, and texture are all just what I’d held in my head when I started thinking about this. And I wanted to shareContinue reading “The Tree Skirt!”

For years, I have had the idea in the back of my head to make a tree skirt. I feel like this is the year to do it! I ruminated for a while. What style? What design? What colors? I decided on a turquoise/blue/white palette, to match the decor in the house. But how toContinue reading “Collaboration”

Some months ago (pre-Pandemic), I was at A Novel Ideal book store. On their “New Arrivals” shelf was a hefty, worn, leather-bound tome. Of course I picked it up. As I flipped through the first few pages, my curiosity was piqued. It wasn’t, primarily, a cookbook. It was nothing more or less than a completeContinue reading “Household Discoveries & Mrs. Curtis’s Cook Book: A manual for the science-minded”

Early in the day, I had some novel out of the house adventures, but around 3:00 I decided to start my creative project. Broadly, my weekend goals are to make my shift and petticoat, and get as far as I can with my stays. I wanted to start with the stays, as they are absolutelyContinue reading “18th Century Clothes making: Day 1”