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I’m so happy you are here! Welcome to our community of folks that strive to enjoy everyday life and create a home that is staycation-worthy! If you are like me, you find a staycation to be the best kind of vacation! Having a welcoming and comfortable place to spend your everyday life is what this blog is all about! Here you will find a little bit of everything home and garden (with some other stuff mixed in)! Welcome! 🙂
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My name is Carissa, the person behind Life on Lady Slipper Lane. This is Cara, the adorable chocolate lab! Cara and I love hanging out around the house and spending as much time as possible in the garden! Learn more about us below!
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NOTICE: We are changing our name and URL!
When I first created this blog almost a year ago, I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. I typed in the name Paints, Plants, and Stuff without giving it a lot of thought and I never really loved it. I purchased the URL for a year, so I continued to use it as
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Cut Flower Garden Seed Starting Schedule
My cut flower seeds recently arrived and will be starting to go into the dirt very soon! I am going to plant based off of an estimated “frost free” date of May 15th. I did a quick google search of my growing zone to determine this date. Living in Minnesota, this could easily be anywhere
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We Are Building a House!
I am so excited to share with you that Caleb and I will be building our dream home this summer! You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t been very active on social media or this website the last couple of months and this is why… hope you can forgive me. We have
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Cut Flower Garden: Seeds are Ordered!
I have talked about growing a cut garden many times before and I am finally deciding early enough in the growing season to do it! I just placed an order for seeds and my current plan is to build a few raised bed to grow them in. I am hoping to possibly even sell a
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Ways to Preserve Fresh Tomatoes
If you have been following this blog since the beginning (thanks family and friends!) you maybe (but probably don’t haha) remember that my first ever post was about having too many tomatoes from the garden. Tomatoes have been something that I have loved to grow. I have learned a lot about ways to preserve them
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How to Blanch and Freeze Carrots
Harvest season is always very rewarding as a gardener. One of the largest crops we pull from the garden in the fall is our carrots. For the past few years, we have planted the Tendersweet variety of carrot. We continue to be a huge fan of this variety! We harvest carrots periodically during the summer
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