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    my four leaf clover collection

    by Kaylah Stroup July 1, 2024
    four leaf clover collection

    For about five years now I’ve been collecting four leaf clovers. I didn’t have a specific place to put them after they dried. They’ve been shoved into notepads, lost in books, and floating around my office.

    While cleaning out my basement I rediscovered a little green metal box. The tools that came in it are long since missing but the box itself? Just something about it scratched something in my brain. I didn’t want to get rid of it.

    I decided to line it with a piece of hornet’s nest that had been on our house last year and fill it with my four leaf clover collection.

    I’m using a fine line silver permanent marker to keep track of how many are inside. Just over 100 at the moment.

    I love how it turned out. I can’t wait to add more!

    four leaf clover collection
    upcycled tool box
    four leaf clover collection

    Find previous four leaf clover content here, like the time I found sixty in one month!

    Check out my tips for pressing plants here.

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  • what I’ve been reading

    by Kaylah Stroup April 4, 2024

    this post contains affiliate links. Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin. “Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurriculars, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: Tell no one of Izzy’s hunger – the kind only blood can satisfy. But Mia is in her twenties …

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  • what I’ve been reading

    by Kaylah Stroup October 23, 2023

    Dear Laura by Gemma Amor. ‘Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the whereabouts of her missing friend Bobby, but there’s a catch: he’ll only tell her what he knows in exchange for something…personal.So begins Laura’s sordid relationship with her new penpal, built on a …

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I'm Kaylah! Renovating a 150-year-old home in Northeast Ohio. Likely found in my garden.

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    • explore everywhere
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  • shop