welcome to my blog! my name is eileen and i am an old soul with a free spirit who loves to find new ways to create beauty out of anything. this blog was birthed out of a pursuit to find myself and heal the places in me that have desperately needed joy.

after experiencing one of the darkest seasons of my life, i found that creating has helped breathe life back into my weary bones. much like my creator breathing life into his creation. this act of forming and crafting something new—whether it’s a fresh, warm loaf of bread or tearing out an old bathroom to completely reimagine it—is what gives me hope for my own life.

there is something so intriguing in witnessing a lifeless, old, or broken thing transform into something beautiful or useful. we all love a good “before and after” and so does our creator. i find a certain sense of peace and hope each time i partake in transforming something because i know he enjoys the intricate process of transforming me.

this blog is the hub of all the ways i enjoy creating from homemaking, home renovating, “yardening” (i’m unofficially coining this term i made up… it is a mix of gardening, homesteading, foraging and other yard related things), parenting, crafting, writing, poetry and the list goes on. i am but a novice in all of these areas but learning, growing and improving is at the heart of all my passions.

my hope is that through sharing my passions and adventures i can inspire you to embark on your own and embrace the messiness of the journey. perhaps through my own ups and downs, do’s and don’ts, successes and failures, you can begin to get a sense of your own confidence to pursue the things that bring you joy.

in addition to all of the the diy posts on crafts and such, i’d love for this to be a place to connect on a deeper level. this blog wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t have been for me recently learning how to more deeply connect with myself. i have always loved words but never considered myself a writer. i always thought “good” writers were really special people who were just deeper than the rest of us. up until a couple of years ago, if you asked me to write a poem i don’t know that i could have.

it wasn’t until one night at a really low point in my life that a poem sprouted up out of my pain. like a wildflower popping up in the crack of a concrete slab. that difficult night, in an effort to make sense of what emotions and thoughts were swirling around in my head, i started penning words and forming them into rhymes. something about writing to a cadence was therapeutic for me. like opening a tightly sealed jar by rhythmically turning the lid. i immediately wrote a second poem that night and have since then written more poems than i can count (not just because i can’t count very high, but because it’s too much of a hassle to try and count them all, and the number keeps growing). i’ve fallen in love with this beautiful new art as a method of connection. connection to me. something i didn’t have for so long. i’ve been very connected to God and to nature and to many other things but not me. it has quickly become one of my favorite ways of expressing myself.

i find much of my inspiration for my writings, crafts and various projects, from nature. i try to surround myself with it. so you will see a lot of it the longer you stay here. if you know me, you know better than to bring me typical, cut flowers as a gesture of love. a real living plant is the way to my heart! my yard is full of them. there is a peace and a connectedness i feel when i’m in nature that i don’t find anywhere else. it’s my escape—my happy place. it’s where i go to find clarity and to listen to the source of all creativity and beauty—the creator himself. his creation is his connection. i have learned so much about his nature, my nature and about the nature of life through his amazing creation. i can’t help but be drawn back to it time and time again, hoping for another glimpse into who he is. 

thank you for being here! i hope you find yourself connecting at depths you haven’t before and experiencing our magnificent creator and yourself in fresh, intimate ways as i have. i hope you have fun with me as we laugh, cry and learn together through this crazy adventure of creating beauty out of life and restoring joy to our hearts and our home!