One excellent holiday gift for the avid gardener are garden stakes – especially cool and unique stakes, because most gardeners I know won’t buy these for themselves (too splurge-like) but as a gift they’ll be appreciated. Check out the cool garden stake sets in the gallery below – perfect for holiday gift giving or for keeping in your own garden. (Links below gallery!)
Garden Stakes Set from Pigeon Toe Ceramics – 4 nice and heavy porcelain garden stakes bearing the stamped name of common herbs and vegetables. Sold as a set of 4, choices include: Lavender, Cilantro, Parsley, Catnip, Rosemary, Sage, …read more

I grew up a military brat. When my parents had two very small children (before they had 4) we were moving from an Air Force base in California to one in Louisiana.
My parents had loaded every single thing they owned in a moving van with the intention of leaving in the morning.
It was stolen. STOLLEN. Everything, every stick of furniture, every bit of clothing, every dish, every single thing.
The insurance money paid their student loans and they moved on. Of course, they have new furniture now.
What couldn’t be replaced were the baby pictures. My brother and I grew up without …read more