HO HO COOKIES

So, you may be wondering why these are called Ho Ho cookies… These are the cookies we made + set out for Santa as per Ava’s request, so now every time we make these cookies she calls them Ho Ho cookies. She LOVES Christmas, and other holidays, especially Halloween, and for the most part, it’s all her own excitement! So we have gone along with her incredible sheer excitement for all the magic those days bring.

We make these almost weekly. As soon as we see 2-3 bananas getting overripe, we make them. They are so delicious and healthy enough that we call them breakfast often. Vegan, gluten free, sugar free + super easy to make!

Recipe:

2-3 ripe bananas

2 cups rolled quick oats

1/2 cup nut butter of choice

2 tbsp raw honey

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt (we prefer himalayan

1/2 cup chocolate chips (can substitute nuts, dried berries, etc)

optional:

1/2 tsp vitamineral earth powder

1/2 tsp maca powder

1/2 tsp amla powder

*this is where you can get creative with what you add for your own health benefits

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mash bananas + add nut butter + honey, mix. In larger separate bowl, add oats + all other ingredients except chocolate chips or alternatives. Mix banana mix into oat mix until all blended. Add chocolate chips + mix well. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Add 1/4 cup size scoops onto the pan and slightly flatten with fingers (not too much so they stay nice + moist). Bake in over for 14 minutes. Enjoy!

They keep for about 3 days when kept enclosed so they don’t dry out.

I tried an experiment with just the cookie dough part to make cookie dough balls! They turned out pretty darn yummy! Instead of baking, take your cookie dough mix and roll into balls + roll them in cocao powder (hello superfood), then chill in fridge for a few hours. You could also roll these in a nut mix or anything else that sounds good to you!

Let me know if you make them! I’d love to know any variations you use as well!

SACRED MOMENTS

We took a drive through the hill country to find wildflowers. We didn’t find many on the route we chose, but we found these insanely beautiful trees along the way. Nature is so soothing to the senses.

Ava Blue, Keeper of Cats + Queen of the sillies.

A shot of 70 of the 90 flags I made last week for a collaboration between Skyline Fever + Barefoot Five. It was massive and life giving.

Cosmo + Banjo have been living it up on the porch since the weather has been turning. We are all so happy to have spring starting to bud around us, especially during a time like we are in.

Feeling so lucky that the week before things go real bad, we got to spend the weekend with our Nanna, b/c it looks like it might be a while before we can again. Ava loves being there and always loves any time she gets to spend with her cousin. We are missing them already.

A beautiful suncatcher I snagged from my friend’s Shannon’s shop, Firefly Mini Farm on etsy. She has some beautiful ones in the shop right now!

I forsee lots of playtime in the backyard for a while until we can get out and play with real humans again.

This capture of Banjo just cracks me up.

From our wildflower adventure. (btw, Kantha Bae just restocked some beautiful headwraps)

This is the first year I have ever participated in a 365 photography project. I never did b/c I didn’t think I could actually pull through every day. But this year I said fuck it, let’s do it anyway. It has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done this year. It is keeping me active, making me take my camera everywhere with me, and I’m capturing so many more in the moment things.

Rancho Morgan

Yesterday we got away for the day with some friends at their ranch out in Rocksprings. It was the first time we had been out to that part of the Texas Hill Country. Just as the name suggests, it has alot of rocks! We had a wonderful day with good people, filled with nature walks, campfire, four wheeler rides, the yummiest grilled food, toddler + baby pig squeals, and peeing in the woods. Anyone else love to pee in the woods? I have always loved it. This post is a bit photo heavy, but I loved snapping moments throughout the day. I’ll let the photos do the rest of the talking…

Check out our sweet friends online - Brandi Morgan + Kayla Talbot <3

ROOTS & FEATHERS

Most of you reading this probably know of my jewelry line Roots & Feathers… This is where the name of this blog actually came from first. I named this business after doing some soul searching and digging deeper into what I wanted to offer in this lifetime. At the time I already had a jewelry line called Violet Bella (named after my dog + cat). As much as I loved the creating part, the line itself had drifted far from who I felt I was inside. I wanted a whole new thing to reflect more of what I felt inside as an artist. Then in 2011 came Roots & Feathers. I named it this after my mother, who I had lost to cancer just a few years before this. I have always felt that she gave me my roots in this life and my wings to fly. I have always been fascinated with feathers, so that word felt more fitting to me than wings. And the birth of my soulwork truly began.

My mother was a jeweler, so the fruit definitely didn’t fall too far from the tree, as the saying goes. I wish so badly my mother could see all of the things I’ve created over the years. I know she would have a bathroom full of my jewelry. These ones below remind me of her. The colors. I don’t think I shared her love for a certain color palette when she was alive, but the older I get the more and more I find myself loving the same things I know she loved. I find colors, or clothing, or home things and fall in love and then think to myself, my mom would of loved this. We would probably be raiding each others closets these days. And now I’m kicking myself for making fun of her velvety slouchy purple boots b/c they would be pretty damn rad with my skinny jeans.

It’s been really good for my soul to get back to making stuff again this past year. I had a deep hiatus from alot of things creative during my first few years of motherhood, naturally. I didn’t realize how much I missed creating beautiful jewels until I got myself back in the studio this past summer. It felt so natural to pick up right where I had left off, but with fresh eyes and new visions. I think creating things with my hands will always be one of my biggest passions.

If you have stuck around here this long, thank you. If you have your eye on something in my shop, go use the code BLOGLOVE to get 20% any one time order! A little thank you for reading my blog. xo