bad hippie adventures

What kind of horrible hippie am I? I have never tie dyed anything...not even the obligatory summer camp tie dye. I have no idea how I managed that, but here I am 42 and a tie dye virgin. As many of you know I run two small businesses and one is call bad hippies <<< (click there to check it out & of course buy stuff) - well I have earned that title with my lack of the quintessential hippie tie dye experience. NO MORE I SAY!As a beginner I did what we all do and googled tie dye kits. I grabbed two varieties...

The summer we have been blessed with about a million scapes.Okay maybe not a million, but way more than I can use to make hummus, no matter how much you love hummus when you are only using two per batch...so what to do with the other 900,000 scapes? I wasn't in the mood to can so I didn't want to pickle them so pesto it is... Pesto is actually pretty easy to do and there are about as may versions of how as there are stars in the sky (again probably a bit of a stretch). I based mine based...

I have always felt a need to create. Growing up my mom was creative. She would make grapevine wreaths and decorate others with a variety of dried flowers. Glue guns and finger burns were common sights on the kitchen table. She was the fixer in our house. The keeper of power tools and the one that found creative solutions when things broke. If I were to guess the creative and crafty sides that both my brother and I have must have come from her (no offense Dad - you inspired all duct tape and BFH fixes!). The past few posts...

It is scape season! Making garlic scape hummus Since we moved to Chicago we have chosen to live in a rental property. There are several reasons for this, but one thing it limits us to is planting a garden. With the four billion other things that demand your time it isn't really a priority right now. With all of the being said, we still planted garlic. Lots of garlic. We were given several bulbs a few years back and have been cultivating and sharing this heirloom hardneck garlic with friends because two people have a hard time using a full 40+ bulbs...

We all have that piece of furniture that we have no idea where it came from, but it serves a purpose. This is that piece of furniture for me.No clue where it came from, but I do have quite a few plants and when they come in for the winter they have to go somewhere...This piece is all function and is well not very visually appealing. As some of you may know we operate a small LLC out of our house and sell at local craft/farmer's/flea markets around the Chicago area as well as an online website and all the...