Northbase Splinter - Nick's Custom Spurtles

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Simple Swap September

Day 20

Are you still using plastic kitchen utensils??

Swapping plastic kitchen utensils for wooden ones is a small change that can make a big difference in reducing everyday exposure to microplastics. Over time, plastic spatulas, spoons, and cooking tools can become scratched, especially when exposed to heat, causing tiny plastic particles to break down and eventually make their way into food. Wooden utensils offer a natural, durable alternative that won't leach plastic particles during cooking and are often gentler on cookware. Many people also appreciate that wood is renewable, biodegradable, and free from the synthetic materials found in many kitchen products. By choosing wooden kitchen tools, you're creating a more natural cooking environment while reducing one more source of unnecessary plastic exposure in the home.

While you’re at it, swap to kitchen tools from Northbase Splinter - Nick's Custom Spurtles and support a local- teen- entrepreneur!!

Check out what he has to offer in store now!

I'll be back to MS soon but don't worry, my mom made sure that spurtle & knife supplies are well stocked at 7 Mahers Homesteading Farm Store & Jamison Pastures!

If you have a custom order request, drop it below 👇

Welcome to the 7 Mahers Homesteading Farm Store, where community is our heart and Christ is our foundation.

I’d like to take time to introduce you to our team… buckle up, we’ve got quite an amazing crew here.

First & Foremost, my husband Seth and I, along with five of our eight children live and breathe this homestead and lifestyle— each of us with our own niche. Our oldest (at home), Savannah— is our incredible sourdough baker, but she’s also highly talented in painting (.88 on insta) and jewelry making ( on insta)! The littles pitch in where they can! You’ll usually find them running the petting zoo on farm family days!

We started with just a dozen local farms and vendors, so for those of you who have been with us since the beginning (June 2025) THANK YOU!

🪵 Northbase Splinter - Nick's Custom Spurtles

🧶 Susan Mackay with Susie’s Stitches

🍑 Sarah with Sarah’s Chilton County Peaches and Abundant Grace Flowers

🫙 Bud Bell with The Farm at Bell Branch

🍯 Carol Brown with Brown’s Bees local honey

🍋 Desiree Johnson the Root Lady at Schoolhouse Ice Pops & Lemonade and the muscle behind the Schoolhouse Community Garden who has more recently added her Taji Wraps hear wrap line to our store!

🥚 Janine Nash, our original egg dealer at Backyard Bounty and her son Spencer with his beaded bowls!

🪵 The Griffin’s with their quail eggs and woodwork

☕️ Kay Morehead with Kk’s Pottery

🪵 Matt Dixon with Dixon Wood Craft

🖊️ Wendy Sanderson with Wendy's Creative Side

🥛 …and the cows of The Milk House - Finnen Farms for providing us milk even before the Finnen’s were the ones milking

We have a whole book section written by local and amazing authors:

📕 Dena Gavin Bradford with two children’s books
📕 Shiloh Seal with Seeking Him and a children’s book
📕 Lea Turner with Freedom to Feel
📕 Sarah Andrews with Pain into Purpose

As time has passed we have added another 30 amazing small businesses!

🍄 Taylor L Eubanks with Red Cap Products— the best quality tallow products around!

🍃 Cricket Desmond with SomeThings herbal salves and more

🧍‍♀️ Mahaley Lowery with reusable feminine hygiene products

👚 Tamra TJ Haynes with t shirt and more

🎀 Taylor DuToit with PBandBows

🛁 JoLynn Ensz with Earth Folk Botanics

🌺 Kara Ann with Botanical Blossoms

🧵 Joanna Mast with Jojo’s Stitches

🪡 Mara Gray Mast with Magnolia Stitches

☕️ Friendly City Coffee

🎨 Brittany Storey with BStoreyArts and Pint Size Paintables

📖 Lisa Ratliff with Lolli’s Shop

🧼 Penny Wallingford with handmade by PennyLane

🌽 Chatham Phillips Hodges with Chatty Cakes

📒 Caitlyn Brooke Morrison with Yellow Creek Co. stationary

🥜 Leann Williams Jenkins with the Happy Hollow Homestead

🍦 Bernadette Hofmann with Finn’s Power Pops organic ice cream

✝️ Layne Hall with reclaimed wooden crosses

🕯️ Erin Morrison and Sherri Stryker with Wildflowers & Roots Candle Company

🫒 Simply Infused Olive Oil Shop

🫙 Kalie Poole with Poolehouse Provisions

🤩 Traci Stephens with The Reader Creates

🧼 Shampoo bars by Ashley Nieto

🍬 Amy J Graber with homemade caramels

🍞 … and I couldn’t possibly go without mentioning The Everlasting Loaf, who fills in any time Savannah cannot make bread!

I am so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to bring each of you into our store!

May the Lord bless you abundantly! 🙌🏻

And that's a wrap for Alaska this year 💪

Headed to Minnesota to hang with my grandpa & uncles for a couple weeks until my big brother comes to roadtrip with me home to Mississippi.

I never thought I'd be in Alaska for the summer I turn 16 (on July 20th!) 😎

It's hard work and it's fun

Thanks for all the support you guys!

Next goal: earn $2-5k for my first truck by the time I get back to MS next month 🛻

Great people, great businesses. Happy to be part of it 👍

Day 26 is special! (Challenge at the end)!

Today, I am honoring the TWENTY SIX product vendors in our store! (in no particular order)

1. Chatham Phillips Hodges with Chatty Cakes provides delicious dips!

2. Janine Nash with Backyard Bounty is our back up egg dealer, when our chickens aren’t paying rent & her son Spencer makes our Beaded Bowls!

3. Joanna Mast has brought us a great selection of kitchen towels, bag holders, aprons and table runners, plus much more!

4. Layne Hall provides the most beautiful crosses from reclaimed wood that you could imagine!

5. Magnolia Stitches by Mara Gray Mast brings beautiful embroidery and Bible pouches!

6. Botanical Blossoms has provided us with fire c***r, perfume and cologne roll-ons among other goodies!

7. Bud Bell from The Farm at Bell Branch has the best pickles around— just ask his trophies from Picklefest 2025!

8. handmade by PennyLane has provided the most luscious, home made goat milk soap, made with our very own goat milk! (Full-circle 🙌🏻)

9. One of our teen vendors, Nick Davies with Northbase Splinter - Nick's Custom Spurtles has replaced nearly all of my personal kitchen utensils 🤪 you have to come get yourself a bread bow knife! (Now available in left-handed varieties, as well!)

10. My girl Caitlyn Brooke Morrison with Yellow Creek Co. is the ONLY thing keeping me organized with her super cute stationary— and she does custom orders!

11. Carol Brown with Brown’s Bees provides us with the best local honey from right across the state line in New Hope!

12. Cricket Desmond with SomeThings Herbal brings us delicious kitchen spices and blends (currently B2G1!) as well as the best quality herbal salves for all of your needs!

13. Y’all already know my girl Desiree Johnson with Schoolhouse Ice Pops & Lemonade but did you know she also brings us Taji Wraps?! The girl is multi-talented! 👑

14. Jessica Renee is our artist! She currently has a beautiful textured painting on display, for sale!

15. JoLynn Ensz with Earth Folk Botanics, y’all where do I begin… sugar scrubs, bath bombs, shower steamers, beeswax tapers, calendula salves, and more!

16. Lisa Ratliff has customized Bible study kits. They’re SERIOUSLY well designed and FUN!

17. Mahaley Lowery provides us Lovely Ladies’ Reusables! Cloth Menstrual care! 🙌🏻

18. THE Matt Dixon with Dixon Wood Craft with stunning charcuterie boards and cutting boards, tables and more! Seriously— he’s amazing— even Lost Pizza commissioned some of his tables!

19. Tamra TJ Haynes with Tamra’s Crafts And Scents is our t shirt vendor! She’s also got wax burners and coffee mugs! so many goodies!

20. The most incredible selection of bows and baby/child headbands from my girl Taylor Brooke DuToit— bow subscription coming soon!!! 🤩

21. Another amazing Taylor with Red Cap Products — THE BEST whipped tallow products! Seriously, the girl knows her stuff!

22. Wendy Sanderson with beaded pens and more!

23. Brittany VanNoy Storey brings us two amazing businesses as well! Check out BStoreyArts for embroidered jewelry and Pint Size Paintables for the most fun little art kits!

24. Wildflowers & Roots Candle Company our newest vendor— a work of (he)art, started as a conversation about candles back in spring, now a fully functional business! Erin Morrison and Sherri Stryker, you two have truly showed out!

25. Kk’s Pottery with all of your pottery needs (and wants)!

26. My sweet Savannah— she’s an ambitious 17 year old, providing our store with Faith Painted Art, Savannah’s Sourdough AND Shine Like Crazy jewelry! Not to mention she’s literally my hands and feet when needed! Often running to town for missing ingredients, picking up or delivering items.

This doesn’t even include our local authors (stay tuned for that post, tomorrow!)

SO FINALLY— the challenge!!

Tag local vendors who you think may be a good fit for our store! *naturally minded, organic, herbal, faith based products 🤷🏻‍♀️ whatcha got?!

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