About Us

(Wiki says . . .) An ecotone is a transition area between two adjacent but different patches of landscape, such as forest and grassland.

Janna and Matthew, that’s us (you can decide who’s the forest and who’s the grassland). Two distinct personalities in the same digital landscape (too dramatic for you, ok.) She lives DoNorth I live DoSouth California and we like to craft and blog together. So this is us, not just another lifestyle blog, but our lifestyle blog.

Oh, and note the clever re-spelling to Ekotone(tm) . . . a totally fictional and affordable domain name that is unique and trademark-able. Yay us! Perhaps it is even memorable. Yay you!

So please consider this your open invitation to join us as we go venturing into the boundaries between hobby and lifestyle.

Janna Mordan Osborne - All about the bacon

“The best things in life are the ones you had to work for.  That’s why I make my own bacon.”

I was born and raised in Northern California, just a couple towns over from where I live now.  My husband Jeremy and I own a small 1946 home in Santa Clara CA, on an 8000 square foot lot a short 100 yards or so from the train tracks.  We thought the trains were charming when we moved in, but now we’re not always so sure.  Our backyard is filled with veggies and our front yard is what we like to call Suburban Prarie, and this is how we like it.  This spring we are adding chickens to our little suburban farm.  I love to grow my own food, cook from scratch and relearn old skills like putting up food for the winter.  I’m also learning to sew things for the house and now clothing as well.  On the weekdays when I’m not busy with all of the above, I work for a small biotech startup doing marketing communications.

Matthew Jaramillo – Self-made man and tactile personality

“I believe the need to make and create is inherent. Self-made, if you will!”

I was born and raised in Southern California, (No, really!) in a great little suburban neighborhood, Montclair. Earned my BS in Computer Information Systems from the infamous DeVry Institute of Technology – yeah, we hate the commercials too.  With my strong drive to create and technical background, I have always been involved with websites somehow and even survived the infamous DotCom Crash of 2000 to land as thee webmaster at Pitzer college for a stint.  Now, project managing in downtown LA. I decided Ontario, California, was the place to settle and raise my now 16 year old son in my first jewel-box-home; a fancy Apartment Therapy word for a house that is less than 2,000 square feet. Hmm. I prefer, “Historic adjacent” but, I digress and risk becoming uninteresting. This home is a place I share with my mother, two small dogs and a constant affront of DIY projects. All of which I’m excited and eager at the prospect of introducing to you.