Today, Dave and I made a trip down to Costco to pick up some basics that we were starting to run low on. Costco is right off of Exit 269. Since Red Hen Fabrics is just at little farther along at Exit 265, I decided we might as well make a stop there too. I took along the Smiling Sunflower…
Last month, for my Christmas on a Budget Series, I wrote about Building Traditions by repeating memory building activities year after year. One tradition that I started when our children were little was to make them a new Christmas ornament every year to hang on the tree. The idea was that by the time they left home, they would each…
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might remember these Quilt-As-You-Go blocks and the roll of binding that I sent off to Jan Mac of Oz Comfort Quilts to be made into a quilt for those who were affected by the horrible flooding that occurred in Australia earlier this year. If you click over here, you can…
In the previous post, I described how we make our own homemade stock. Now I’m going to show you how we preserve that stock for future use by pressure canning it. (<-affiliate link) A note before we get started: Despite what our grandmothers may have done or the canning methods they may have used, modern canning methods require all low…
We started making our own meat stocks years ago and let me tell you, we will never go back to buying store bought stock or broth again. The difference in taste and quality are amazing. Not to mention, they are very inexpensive to make; especially chicken and turkey stock because you’re using the bones leftover from roasting the bird (for chicken…
I didn’t get the table runners done, but I did manage to get the little clutch purse finished. Earlier in the week, when I was cutting out the pattern pieces for the purse so that they’d be ready for Friday night, I decided I should take some scrap fabric and make a test of the pattern. Good thing I did…
I was going through all the pictures I took last week and realized that I had forgotten to post about the fun surprize in the form of a squishie that was waiting for me when I got home from Canada. While I was away getting our youngest settled into his second year of college, I got an e-mail from Impera…
I’d like to welcome readers who are visiting from Emily Isaac’s fun article Top 10 tea inspired homeware on the website Brew Drinking Thinkings. Back at the end of July, Emily contacted me to say that she was writing a Top Ten list of teapot-inspired interior ideas for the home and asked permission to link back to my blog as…