I guess I do videos now...sometimes? I'm not going to lie I'm very uncomfortable in video form, but I figure practice makes perfect so I just need to keep shooting and learn to be more natural in front of the camera. This was shot in the woods near my house, if you're curious about where I live, I have an exclusive Patreon video on the park I live in that you can access when you become a patron. In that video I also explain more about how to identify wild garlic, so for this one I just dived in with the foraging and then making a wee recipe with it. This is the recipe I used, but it's such a simple recipe you really don't need to be too exact with the measurements--just flavor it to your own taste preferences. Click here for my Youtube page and please subscribe.

As of today I have been blogging for 8 years! I have a hard time remembering exactly why I sat down and pinned that first post back in 2007 and the girl I was back then. There's been a lot of growth, several moves, and various hair colors in the intervening years and the blog has served as a diary recording many of those events. I'm grateful to have this journal to look back on and can only imagine how amusing it will be to look at eight years from today--certain old posts already make me cringe!
But I don't like to use my blog's birthday as a day to get very nostalgic and wax on about the past. Instead every year I try to think of some goals for the coming year and celebrate the occasion with a video. I've a lot of ideas for improving my blog and some new creative projects I'm really excited about this fall. For this year's special video Thomas and I decided to do a little fairytale themed shoot in some rainy woods. The video is inspired by the legend of "The Red String of Fate." I hope you enjoy it and thank you for reading my blog for all these years!