Honey Bee & Lavender Cottage Companion — November 2026

Make Room at the Table

Set another place. Scooch in. Make room.

November invites us home.
To the kitchen where something warm is simmering.
To the table where there is always room for another chair.
To ordinary evenings made beautiful by candlelight, a warm cuppa, and the people we love.

The November 2026 Honey Bee & Lavender Cottage Companion is a beautiful 60-page digital collection created to help you slow down, gather close, practice gratitude, welcome others, and make the most of this lovely season between autumn and Christmas.

This month's theme is Make Room at the Table, because hospitality isn't about having a perfect house or setting a perfect table. It's about opening the door, pulling up another chair, sharing what we have, and making people feel that they belong.

Inside, you'll find a warm mixture of seasonal homemaking, practical hospitality, comforting recipes, Thanksgiving traditions, memory keeping, faith, quiet reflection, and a little visit with Pippa and her friends at Lavender Cottage.

Inside the November Companion

You'll discover:

• November at Home — gentle seasonal shifts, welcoming entryways, guest comforts, cozy evenings, pantry preparation, and simple ways to make home feel ready for the season.
• From the November Kitchen — warming soups, Olivia's Pastina Italian Chicken Soup, Melissa's Cranberry Orange Cream Cake, cozy drinks, baking and sharing ideas, and thoughtful kitchen touches.
• Make Room at the Table — practical and heartfelt ideas for gathering, Thanksgiving traditions, welcoming another person, carrying family traditions forward, and remembering that hospitality begins with the heart.
• Gratitude & Memory Keeping — simple practices for noticing the good, thanking the people who matter, preserving ordinary memories, and recording the stories someone may someday ask you to tell.
• A Little Something from Pippa — Pippa, Henry, Beau and Joy return with a sweet November story about making room for one more, along with an activity page, coloring page and Mrs. Lavender's watercolor sketchbook.
• A Gentle Close to November — quiet days after gathering, gratitude, counting your blessings, remembering the month, a prayer for the turning season, and a gentle bridge toward Advent and Christmas.

More Than a Magazine

The Companion is meant to be used.

Print the pages you love. Slip recipes into your kitchen binder. Write on the planning and memory pages. Color with a little one. Save a family story. Try a recipe. Invite somebody over. Return to a page when the house is quiet and you need a little encouragement.

And when November is over, keep it.

Because today's ordinary days have a way of becoming tomorrow's family stories.

What You'll Receive

• 1 digital PDF — 60 beautifully designed pages
• US Letter size — 8.5 × 11 inches
• Designed for reading digitally or printing at home.

This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

Your purchase is for personal household use only. Please do not reproduce, resell, redistribute, share electronically, or use the Companion commercially.

A November Invitation

You don't need matching dishes.
You don't need a perfect house.
You don't need an elaborate menu.

Put something warm on the stove. Light a candle. Open the door.

Set another place.
Scooch in.
Make room.

There is always room for one more at the Cottage. ❤️