Happy Valentine's Day and Fun Friday!! With the ice storm and us losing power for most of three days, I totally forgot to send out the February Mane Event! It's the beautiful pink lily in the bottom picture. We also have a beautiful new clover heart...

Happy January!!! Are you also snowed/iced in?? We are and we've been without power since 7am yesterday morning, so that's fun! (Or not!) To keep us warm and free from boredom, how's about a surprise sale?! This goes through the 28th at 11:59pm PST! A...

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you're having a wonderful holiday with lots of food and fun! Our Black Friday sale is already underway! Take 40-60% off with free shipping on orders over $60 and the discount codes are stackable!! We have some adorable...

School has kept me swamped, so I've been a little out of touch (sorry about that! I'll do better!), but I wanted to get a jump on things and let you know about the Pre-Black Friday sale I'm having on my in-house inventory! From today (11/20) through...

Today we have no tricks, just treats with 40% off everything using the code BOO!Have a safe and fun weekend and stay tuned for the gorgeous November Mane Event!!Sarah Lillarose.com/opalturtle

Once upon a time, people used to understand and appreciate ancestors and land and the price we all pay to keep that land ours. People...

I’m going to tell you a secret - are you ready? You are not stuck. The kids and I have been talking a lot about school, jobs, and life in...

This year has been strange and weird and not easy, but I find I have more to be glad of than upset about.

My great-uncle died a few weeks ago. I didn’t say anything about it then because I couldn’t get my head around what to say. I wrote this...

We’ve all had times in our lives when we just knew (or thought anyway) that we were going to be in a certain spot forever - a house, a job,

Why have chickens? People ask us that a lot. And, after having chickens for five+ years I have some answers. 

Ya'll - this program is so information packed  and so intensive that it will transfer into the PhD program I’m starting tomorrow - also in I

Three years ago this month Conner got sick with the mystery illness that we're still trying to figure out. He's getting better every day.

There’s been a fair amount of interest in how I got started audiobook recording since I posted about it today, so I thought I’d put it all i

So here we are in the midst of this global pandemic/crisis/thing that is, I think, worse than any of us really thought it would be. But… we’