Welcome to Grateful Heart Home & Garden. This site is meant to inspire and cultivate love and gratitude for the every day pleasures simple living and gardening can bring into your life.

My home is located on an Island in the beautiful Pacific Northwest nestled amongst the towering Douglas fir trees and close to the bluffs overlooking Puget Sound. My husband & I have lived in this area for almost 20 years and the beauty never fades and it always gives me a feeling of awe. We are so grateful to build a life here and raise our daughter in an area with so much natural beauty.

My mission is to help you find beauty and peace in your surroundings by sharing my favorite recipes, bouquets from my cut flower garden, and how I find gratitude and hope after the passing of my beloved mom, Kelly. My Mom’s love of gardening and flowers is one of the precious gifts she has given to me and this website journey is inspired by her love.

You may be asking what does it mean to be a grateful heart? It is giving gratitude and discovering what we already have, it is revealing the good that is already present. It is seeing and believing in the innate good in others, expressing kindness to everyone we meet, and finding the light even in the darkest of times. Loving is living and I am living with a grateful heart.

It is with a grateful heart that I start this journey of discovery and adventure with all of you.

– Kristin