Frog & Twig

06/18/2026

In the works: Tiny basket Class, stay tuned for details!

06/17/2026

06/16/2026

Willow obelisks and native plants in bloom, two of my favorite things! Find plenty of both anytime GOOD YEAR FARMS and make SURE to come to the 2nd Annual Pollinator Festival, you do not want to miss this event! Visit me in the afternoon at the Goodyear farm booth where I will have my willow pieces for sale and can help you pick out the best native plants for your yard. In the morning I’ll be roaming around as a Vancouver Bee Project volunteer, can’t wait!

06/15/2026

I love how red twig dogwood dries to this dark maroon color. This woven planter also has a stripe of beaked hazel and some random willow.

05/23/2026

I got my own private Native Garden tour from my dear friend Linda of today (see the last slide for more info) her garden is open tomorrow. I wish I would have taken more pics but was too busy chatting! If you live near Vancouver, WA and want to see the amazing amount of progress only a couple years of habitat gardening can yield you don’t want to miss this garden. Follow her page for great visuals on individual native plants. Also, wow, check out her Tolmie’s Mariposa Lily blooms, absolutely stunning!!

05/19/2026

Had a wonderful time this weekend getting to explore the 40 acre Wade Creek Farm property and share ideas for summer camp kids crafts with Lara. She has done and is doing an amazing job restoring the land using environmentally conscious techniques. Areas that were once 15 feet deep with blackberries are exploding with native plant growth thanks to hungry goats. Fields that were once over-farmed and nutrient deficient are being converted to meadows, wildflowers are blooming everywhere! It’s so inspiring to see the process in action. I’m excited to spend more time there.

Did you know that she also teaches Women’s carpentry classes and other workshops?! Check them out!

05/17/2026

Naturescaping at Prune Hill Living Lab with Camas Earth Day Society

05/16/2026

Rainy day in May, perfect for finally using all the cattail, iris, gladiolus and spreading blue rush I gathered and dried last Summer. I’ve watch many videos online but finally decided to purchase an actual course, “Twining with Natural Materials” by and I’m glad I did, my first three attempts are already much better than the progress I’ve made doing random YouTube tutorials occasionally over the past year. The center basket is my first attempt, the left basket is my second and the right one is my 3rd, in progress. I aspire to the smooth rounded sides of his basket but that’s going to take a lot more practice. This isn’t one day’s work by the way, it’s a slow process and I’ve been working on them all week. It’s going to take a lot more little baskets to feel competent but I enjoy this type of weaving, just for fun, there is basically not much actual function to a tiny little basket but I find them so charming. Twining will never take the place of willow for me but the upside of only needing to soak materials for 20-30 minutes vs. the complicated process of soaking and mellowing willow over a couple weeks is a pretty big one!
I’m looking forward to adjusting the techniques for kids for the Wade Creek Farms summer camps coming up (wadecreekfarm.com) especially the fairy and gnome camp, I’m imagining we can make tiny baskets and go gather the tiniest flowers we can find to make fairy basket bouquets . 😊

05/13/2026

Tried something new this weekend, pottery wheel .la.mud ‘s Mother’s Day spin the wheel class. Very fun, and very messy (but we didn’t have to clean up!!). The garden is shifting to early summer blooms, the coppiced willow is already 2-3 feet tall! The weather is beautiful for playing outside. Love this time of year. 😊