MOXHAVENa haven for the moxie
Glowing paper stars over vintage snowshoes on a herringbone brick wall, beside our black wood stove and cedar garland
Moxhaven

Homemaking and magic making

Making ordinary life a little more magical. Good company, happy messes & unreasonable amounts of whimsy. No experts here, just friends.

Come on in Stay awhile. The cookies are almost done.
The great room glowing through the glass of our front door at night
The front door

Come on in. The door’s open.

Shoes off, or don’t. There’s a chair by the fire and probably something warm on the stove.

Wander on in
Room by room

Kick your shoes off and wander.

Our kitchen at Christmas with gold paper stars
the HearthTraditions
The rope swing in our great room
the PantryHomemaking
A strawberry cream cake beside a floral tea set
the KitchenRecipes
A buttercream cake with garden roses
the KitchenCakesOrder a cake
A candlelit floor feast
the Writing DeskJournal
Inside the timber frame during the build
the WorkshopThe Build
An antique pine side table with a willow basket
the MercantileShop
Our family among bare winter trees
the PorchAbout
Rachel smiling in a denim jacket against a red barn wall
Hi. It’s me.
Hi, friend

Oh good, you’re here.

“I’ve come to believe that we mothers are the time keepers and magic makers in our homes. We get to breathe life into this world. All kinds of life.”

Home is where it all begins and the time we have together is precious. I hope your time here brings more magic into your life and home, and reminds you that you’re doing better than you think.

Love, Rachel

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the Kitchen · Cakes

I decorate cakes, too.

Garden roses, ferns, berries and whatever’s blooming. A few favorites from over the years.

See the cake room Order a cake
A three-tier textured white wedding cake with white roses, eucalyptus and baby’s breath on sage gauze
A four-tier white wedding cake wrapped in twigs and greenery, under a barn roof
A two-tier textured buttercream cake with garden roses, ferns and berries
A blush cake with cable-knit piping on a wood round
Looking up at the timber frame at night, a beam being set under a haloed moon
the Workshop
We built this house by hand, one log at a time, sometimes by moonlight.
Read the build story
The rope swing hanging in our great room
@moxhavenco

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“Life’s short. We might as well make it fun!”

Fair warning: the swing is just the beginning of the shenanigans.

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A big wooden platter of Christmas treatsA lamplit table in the tiny cabinFloor joists at sunsetA wicker chair by the fire in the tiny cabinClose-up of a raw log being setFishing the river under golden autumn willows
The Moxhaven playlist

What’s playing at Moxhaven

The songs that fill our kitchen, our evenings and our drives. Press play and stay awhile.

Moxhaven Home · 40 songs, about 2 hours 45 minutes

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A candlelit table from above, with an olive wood bowl, a charcuterie board and votives
Letters from the porch

Pull up a chair.

Every so often I’ll write you a letter. A recipe, a tradition we’re trying, whatever magic (or glorious mess) happened at our table that week. No lectures, nothing salesy, just a friend waving from the porch.