For the past several years, Hearth Ambassador Jessica Atcheson has decorated a mason jar and written a single happy thought on a piece of paper every day. She puts each happy thought into the mason jar and doesn’t look at them again. Then, at the end of the year, she pours out all her happy… Continue Reading
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Yield: 24 rolls and a dip!
Every month, Hearth Ember Rebecca D’Antonio makes a core dish for our Hearth Dinner. For the First Time Recipe Potluck this Sunday, she’s trying something new! Check out her recipe for rolls and spinach dip and let us know what you think at the potluck! Have a good recipe you think the Hearth Community would enjoy?… Continue Reading
How to Write a Passage
written by Hearth Founder, Miranda Aisling at Write a Passage on August 2, 2016 inspired by the prompt “Write a Set of Directions” Step one: Decide what you’re going to write about. Step two: Start writing, even if you haven’t decided yet. Step three: Continue writing in hopes that you’ll think of something while your fingers… Continue Reading
Gift Idea: How to Make Bath Bombs!
– written by Hearth Ember Jaclyn Wood I made a goal for myself in 2016 to buy less material things and kept to it most of the year. It made me think more about what I need, which wasn’t much, versus what I want. I try as much as I can to reduce, reuse, and… Continue Reading
How to Buy Gifts for a Tiny House Dweller
In my family, we always ask each other for gift suggestions, but this year there’s been an extra emphasis. It’s my first holiday season with Aubergine and all my family and friends are wondering, “What on earth do we get her?” So I created a little cheat sheet about what kinds of gifts to get… Continue Reading
Winter Painting Sale to Support Miranda’s Hearth!
Want to support Miranda’s Hearth? Need to get an awesome, locally made holiday present with a good story? All of my paintings are 20% off until December 31, 2016! In 2016 alone, I painted 30 abstract oil paintings on either knitting, stretched canvas, canvas board, or unstretched canvas. As a tiny houser, that’s a lot… Continue Reading
Carving Out Time to Reflect
I lead a rather busy life. In addition to running Miranda’s Hearth, I work full-time as an arts coordinator and continue my own artistic practice. With so many fun things to do and fascinating people to see, the necessary time for self-reflection is often overcome by dinners and art events. While I greatly enjoy the… Continue Reading
Making Zines: Part Punk, Part Nerd
-written by Laura Meilman I have been looking forward to this Hearth Dinner for months now, ever since Miranda invited me to help out with a zine making focus. In anticipation, I have been making zines based on directions I found online, but I did catch myself wondering, “am I punk-rock enough to make zines?”… Continue Reading
Crafting the Hearth Narrative
When we were kids, my older sister organized the books in her room in a personalized Dewey Decimal system. Three and a half years younger, my job was to cut all the bits of masking tape to go on the bottom of the book spine so that she could write the appropriate numbers on them.… Continue Reading
Learning how to dance again
It wasn’t until quite recently that I began thinking of myself as a Dancer. Labels like this take a lot of confidence to claim. I’ve finally found that Artist fits me, as does Painter. Potter, in the past sense. Musician, sometimes. Writer, sometimes. I’ve been trained, at least a little, in all of the above. Dance, on… Continue Reading