There are a lot of fantastic things one can get up to in the summer. There is fresh produce to gorge on, BBQs to get silly with friends at, new music to discover and just general tomfoolery to…
Tagged By season: nature
Guest Post: Wine Glass Terrariums by Tattooed Martha
Today we have a nature themed tutorial coming at us from Sasha of Tattooed Martha. This lady doesn’t take her blog name lightly either, she really is doing it all, and often. Head on over…
Foodie Friday: Garden Gazpacho
Come late summer, gazpacho is the answer for everything. Can’t get rid of your garden’s zucchini harvest? Gazpacho! Feeling sugar overload from ice cream and berry desserts? Gazpacho! Too warm to eat hot food? Gazpacho!…
Adventures: Fruit Pie Contest
If you’re ever in San Francisco and you love cooking you have to check out Omnivore Books in Noe Valley. Onmivore Books is an entire store full of cookbooks – they carry every cookbook you…
Adventures: I confess, my thumb is not green
I have always dreamed of having an apartment filled with dwarf citrus trees and window herb gardens, an indoor garden wonderland worthy of being featured on Apartment Therapy. Every year I go on a plant…
Adventures: Snacking
There is no denying that food ends up being a big part of all this adventure having. Perhaps it is the main feature if you are picking fruit or pickling everything in sight. Or maybe it’s…
Adventures: Summer Bucket List
Summer technically started just a few days ago, but I feel like it has been rushing by for weeks now. The days may be long, but they are flying by in a flash for…
Adventures: Sightseeing while Exercising
Hello again! My name is Nisha and back in December I wrote about throwing dinner parties. I am taking a break from dinner parties to join Jess & Linz for this season’s Adventures series. I…
Adventures: Strawberry Picking
It’s the first Sunday in a new season, which means we are moving on to a new idea for our “Letters” series. Since this season is about nature we will be exploring ways in which…
Craft Round Up: Nature Theme
Linz and I are pumped to tell you about another(!) series we are adding to Sweet Athena. It seems no matter how many crafts we try and create each season, there is always more to…
Foodie Friday: Crema
Sometimes a new type of dish pops out at you and you just have to try it. That is the way I felt about crema after reading an article about it in The Oregonian. Sauteed…
Sew & Tell: Throw Pillows
This Sew and Tell session is all about my recent decision that I needed to give our couch pillows a makeover. This was my first time making pillow cases and it really is an easy…
Fusing Glass
I was recently lucky enough to take an afternoon art class with one of my favorite artists, my dad! He signed us up to take an ‘Intro to Fusing‘ class at Aquila Glass. I honestly knew…
Foodie Friday: Roasted Edamame Salad
The sun is out and I’m excited to spend my time basking in its rays. Which means it is also that time of year to put a little less effort into standing over a…
Blue Jean Wreath
I love wreaths. This is in large part due to the fact that you can take any number of objects attach them in a circle form, et volia, you have a wreath! Which is…
Family Tree
I have been wanting to make a family tree for sometime now. Something that visually showed a connection to my ancestry. Martha Stewart has the best collection of tutorials on ways you can make and…
Crafting Outdoors
When thinking about combining nature and crafting together for this season my mind jumped to all the ways you could add nature to different projects. I saw imagines of animals, plants and scenery incorporated into…
Sprucing Up Furniture
One of my goals for this past year was to take an ugly piece of furniture and transform it into something with a bit more charm. As I mentioned yesterday, my new apartment could use…
Painted Tree
It feels like it has been awhile since I have written a nature post around here. This is not from…
Foodie Friday: Banana Ice Cream
Crafty Mariko first told me about a certain phenomenon sweeping the world (okay, maybe just some kitchens). It starts with a frozen banana and actually that’s all there is too it. The Kitchn explains that all you need…
jess + linz
Friends since middle school, we continue to inspire each other to be creative in our big, adult lives. Each season we take on a new theme to guide our crafting, cooking, and creating. We're up for trying anything, and things are bound to get messy. But that's just the way we like it.