This weekend when Sunday morning came it was time to take Jesse to the airport so he could go out of town for a business trip. After I dropping him off at the airport I did some errands and stopped by Freckled Nest’s studio to get my camera… but as soon as I walked in there was [...]
Prairie Style
This is a fact that I’ve been enjoying this weekend- tonight I’m driving out to the country for my second Thanksgiving dinner of the weekend, and I love that there’s still American Thanksgiving to look forward to! I hope you’re feeling happy, thankful & inspired today, even if you’re not having a big turkey dinner- [...]

On Sunday Amber and I went down to Grand Forks on a mini shopping trip to get her ready for her new apartment… which might have turned into a clothing shopping trip! We listened to Bossypants the whole way there and back, and had a really amazing time. We got a great haul from Target- including some [...]

On Making Space for A Creative Life, Happiness and a Day Job
by Kyla Roma on July 26, 2011
in Being In Business, Craft, Fashion & DIY, creative thinking, Hands On!, Her Life, How Handy, Prairie Style, Recurring Posts, Stories About:
Recently a good friend of mine came to me asking for advice about how she could transition from her full time job into having a more creative day to day life. It gave me a lot to think about, because I think that especially online there is a lot out there about how much more [...]

There are some traditions from your childhood that are really hard to share with new friends later in life. When you try to conjure them back into reality it just isn’t quite the same. I’ve been going to the Winnipeg Folk Festival since I was born but I stopped going when I was an older teenager. It’s a giant [...]

Garden Guests
by Kyla Roma on July 5, 2011
in Little House on the Prairie, Prairie Style, Stories About:
Last night I was going through my kitchen garden and checking the growing my vegetables have been doing, when I realized that I wasn’t alone… I don’t know much about caterpillars, but I wanted to research them to make sure they wouldn’t hurt my dill, register themselves as residents of our home on the census or [...]

Market Weekend + Standing Out From The Crowd
by Kyla Roma on July 4, 2011
in Beauty & Bodies, Her Life, Needles + Ink, Prairie Style, Stories About:
This weekend I made my first trip to the big farmers market in our city. Last year I made buying local, early on Saturday mornings (followed up by an afternoon nap) into a summer ritual- I would roll out of bed, put on a hat, grab coffee and wake up on the way to the [...]








































