Winter Stories

Recipes, Winter Stories

Healthy Maple Pecan Shortbread Cookies (Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Paleo)

These accidentally-vegan maple pecan shortbread cookies are wonderfully buttery and crisp, and they don’t even have any butter in them! Gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, and 100% good, real food ingredients, they’re still snarfed down lightning-quick by butter-loving folk. They couldn’t be simpler to make, too! *Note: You can also make these with stevia extract […]

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Holly-Gathering

One sunlit December day, they took to roaming the forests and fields with baskets slung over their arms. Holly-gathering was the objective of the afternoon. Nothing makes a home feel quite so Christmas-y as fresh greenery gathered in with love. “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better […]

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Mountain Mists and Snows

Scarf: Garnet Hill, Necklace: Betsy Farmer Designs, Sweater: handmade (Simply Wool Worsted Yarn in Wilhelmina), Satchel: Infusion (it’s waxed canvas, and it’s awesome!), Mittens: handmade, Pendleton wool dress: handmade from 1950s pattern, Tights: Smartwool (old), Socks: Smartwool, Boots: VIVOBAREFOOT *If you make a purchase through some of our links, Tales of Huckleberry Island earns a […]

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A Winter’s Ramble

  The other day, we took a little hike to visit a favorite world of ours. It does a person good to get out and explore even just one’s own backyard, every now and again. You really never know what you’ll find. You might even find yourself in a whole different world. Rare close-up photograph […]