Mary Claire Ekstrom

By Mary Claire Ekstrom I swam deeper and deeper, dodging my brother’s flailing hands. Headed to safe water. The deep end. He’d never catch me. I bounced upward, kicking off…

By Mary Claire Ekstrom Ingredients Coffee Scrub ½ cup ground coffee ¼ cup sugar ¼ cup coconut oil ⅛ cup almond oil 1 tbsp. salt Directions Mix together with hands.…

Add a little fruit to your brownie. 

By Mary Claire Ekstrom Ingredients Bacon Lettuce Black Olives, Chopped Cheese Bread Directions Weave eight pieces of bacon together in a large skillet.  Cook on medium with a panini press…

Organizing drawers seems useless and time-consuming, I’ll admit. After all, not many visitors go scrounging through drawers, but if your drawers are as cluttered as ours were, it’s easy to…

By Mary Claire Ekstrom Cake and Pie Drawer For all your cake and pie pans to be on one place. Great spot to keep those cumbersome pie servers. Accessories Drawer…

“Oh. Good Lord.” The interior decorator snatched three picture frames off the coffee table. Turned, saw five more family photos mixed in amongst the books on the bookshelf, charged over…

By Mary Claire Ekstrom One day, not long after my fourth birthday, my dad told my two brothers and me that we were going to visit our family ranch. A…

Spruce up a basic candle. The can be done with candles of all sizes, whether they sit on the countertop or on a candle stand.  By Mary Claire Ekstrom Materials Railroad nails…

By Mary Claire Ekstrom My roommate and I are both out-of-staters at the University of Minnesota. She’s from Wisconsin. I’m from Texas. (Hence the cows in the picture) We wanted…