blogwatch: where we’ve been clicking this week

Yes, while we agree with Badder Homes and Gardens that it’s become a bit of a “hipster trend” to have chickens, we’d jump on the bandwagon in a second, especially if we had one of these modernist chicken coops.
After last week’s post off about pets and design, we couldn’t help but share these adorable pets on furniture roundups at Desire to Inspire (part 1 and part 2) .
Personalize your boring kitchen canisters with these vintage inspired downloadable kitchen decals at Craft.
This week, the kitchn has been making a lot of cool treats, and featuring some great tools to make ‘em with. Check out this a fabulous set of stainless steel popsicle molds, and they also gave a hearty endorsement to the DeLonghi Gelato maker that we just featured this week
If all play and no work is making the wallet slim, Casa Sugar’s got ten cheap and easy ways to enjoy August.
You’ve got the planting and the watering down. But how do you know the best time to harvest your summer bounty? Organic Gardening Magazine. That’s how. In this post.
And if you’ve not planted summer savory this year, Shelterpop gives us some beautifully delicious reasons to make it part of next year’s garden.




You know, I thought the recent “hipster trend” was beekeeping… or was that last year?
Speaking of, how are the bees going? Did you decide not to try again this year?