Hey there!  Welcome to Live Seasoned.  We’re Katie Daenzer and Sarah Schu.  We’re sisters born almost a decade apart, but we share the same brain.  We created this blog to share a space on the web together to incubate ideas, educate ourselves and inspire others.  Live Seasoned is a nature inspired lifestyle blog where we create and share recipes, craft projects, travel adventures, outdoor activities, and authentic tidbits from our daily lives.

We believe in living in the moment and that moment changes by the season.  We also believe in nourishing our mind, body, and community.  If you follow this blog, you’ll find us snowshoeing in January, curled up with a good book in March, eating a fresh tomato sandwich in August, and scouting the perfect pumpkin patch in October. From researching the perfect cup of coffee and looking up the next lunar eclipse to finally figuring out how to hem our own jeans; if it’s in season, it’s on Seasoned.

We are two sisters that grew up in the woods of central Pennsylvania.  After years of bouncing around from one city to the next, we’ve both settled in small college towns and have found that we can track our activities by the Earth’s orbit around the sun.

Katie is an environmental scientist with over ten years of higher education. She’s also a wife and mother of two young boys. With the birth of her second son, she decided to take a break from applying economics to climate change research and focus on family life. Kate enjoys her role as a stay at home mom, but there are a few things that improve each day: a great cup of coffee to sip while enjoying a new book or magazine article, her planner to keep everything on track, a walk in the woods or a good bike ride with her camera to break up the day, and a piece of chocolate followed by a cocktail to wind down at night.

Katie spends her springs in the kitchen where quiche is her specialty, her summers in the garden harvesting lavender, her falls re-establishing her down dogs, and her winters in the craft room scurrying to finish up Christmas presents.

• If your house was burning, what would you grab? Funny thing is, I’ve started to think about this since we are living in an area with a risk of wildfires… photo albums, hard drive, passport, and Alex’s kitty cats.
• If you had to pick a meal to eat once a week for the rest of your life, what would it be?  A nice, fatty, piece of salmon and a huge, veggie-filled salad.
• Warm or cold vacation destination? Warmity warm!
• Favorite piece of camping gear? A good campfire seat (and now I’m officially old)
• Favorite photo subject? Macro shots of winter foliage
• Spirit animal? Antelope
• Favorite national park? Assateague Island

Some of Katie’s favorite posts are: Camping with Kids, DIY Summer Face Oil, Chocolate Cake with Buttercream and Rose Petals, and the Tidal Marsh Ecosystem Profile.

Sarah is a full-time wanderer and professional freelance photographer.  She’s also a newly trained yoga teacher.  At any given moment she’s dreaming up new careers and projects and acting on approximately 15% of them.  Sarah cherishes anything that hydrates, she always has chapstick and coconut oil on hand and at any given time has three glasses of different drinks in front of her.  Sarah never leaves home without a dozen podcasts and a notebook and pen.  She is always reading at least three books at a time and dreaming of her next bowl of chocolate ice cream.

Sarah spends her springs sipping tea and hiking with her hound dog, her summers reading on the beach or in a hammock somewhere, her falls attending every festival in a fifty mile radius, and her winters bundled up researching future travels to warmer climates.

• If your house was burning, what would you grab? My hard drives, passport, blankets from Nepal, lamp from Thailand, and my doggydog.
• If you had to pick a meal to eat once a week for the rest of your life, what would it be? Mushroom ravioli and a crusty piece of bread.
• Warm or cold vacation destination? WARM.
• Favorite piece of camping gear: Fully-charged headlamp
• Favorite photo subject? Travel landscapes
• Spirit animal? Lion
• Favorite national park? Zion

Some of Sarah’s favorite posts are: Yoga in Bed: Relieve Lower Back Pain, Why YOU Should Volunteer, DIY Macrame Plant Hangers, Vegan + GF Creamy Avocado Popsicles, and Gardens of Nepal.

 So there you have it, we’re a pair of meditative, outdoorsy, adventurous, travelin’ fools, but at the same time we’re wannabe homesteaders who enjoy cozy evenings being artistic and creative.  We are quick to help and act, yet all the while we’re daydreaming and scheming our next event or activity.  We hope you’ll follow along with us and while you’re at it, tell a friend or two if you think they’d find Live Seasoned helpful or inspiring.

If you’re interested in partnering with Live Seasoned, please reach us at liveseasoned@gmail.com.  We’re always looking for interesting ways to collaborate so shoot us a note!

Before starting Seasoned, Katie blogged at Winter Foliage while Sarah shared her travel stories at Life Lens.  You can keep up with Sarah’s current photography work on her website.