About

Welcome to Pocket Pause! I hope you will stick around and have some fun with me and my little family: grab my feed, subscribe by email or bookmark this page and feel free to leave me comments!.

This blog is a place of documentation, community and learning. You’ll find recipes, travel logs, reviews, tips, tutorials and the follies of a small family new and returned to Oregon. This blog is also my small attempt at educating and enlightening the public about the joys of living responsibly and in excellent health. I hope you enjoy my posts and learn a little about gardening or cooking or just enjoy cute photos of Pocket. I post my trials and failures as well as my successes to share my learning process with you. Please feel free to comment on my posts with any tips, questions, praises or criticisms or contact me directly.

I’m always happy to offer my advice, but I’ll never take myself too seriously.

By trade and passion, I am a children’s book illustrator, felter and fine artist. By passion and frugality, I am an avid gardener and wannabe farmer. I started blogging “An Austin Homestead” when i kept an urban homestead in Austin, TX with vegetable and herb gardens in my front yard, and a compost heap and some friendly chickens in the backyard. I’m now living with my husband and the namesake of this new blog: Pocket the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, just south of Pedee, Oregon on 17.5 acres of potential. We bought our “farm” in December of 2012 and immediately began writing to-do lists on how to convert a dilapidated 3 thousand square foot home, leaky barn, and scotch broom infested pasture into a productive and self sustainable homestead.

I love cooking delicious, usually healthy things utilizing as many homegrown (or farm direct) ingredients as I can, and when I’m not filling the kitchen with tantalizing dinner smells I fill it with delightful aromas of freshly made soap. I write recipes, when I remember to. I love teaching people how to live frugally and in sync with the planet and seasons. I’m excited to continue learning age old skills like spinning yarn and using herbs as medicine. I’m constantly churning out new entrepreneurial efforts to supplement my artist’s income,  including selling my handcrafted soaps  local farmers markets and online, and expanding my newest business, Fiber Friends: inspired by my love for our sweet Corgi. You can find more details about both those businesses right in the nav bar of this blog. You can also find samples of my illustration work at my online portfolio: www.MirandaRMueller.com

Thanks so much for reading Pocket Pause. I hope you’ll join the ride with me and mine as we get our hands dirty in the Oregon coastal foothills.

Regards,

Miranda