I know, this counts as two posts in one week! However, I didn’t want to detract from my new Mourning Dove Shawl design – and yet, there is so much more I wanted to talk about! It’s the middle of summer and yet I just finished a bulky cowl for this winter. I was making […]
DIY
Homemade Breakfast Sausage
It’s not unusual for our area to see first flurries in the beginning of October. Certainly by the end of October we’ve had at least one snowfall. We had been blessed with unseasonably warm weather throughout the last couple of months. Finley has loved our weather because he likes nothing more than to lay out […]
How to make Homemade Vanilla
Have you tried making homemade vanilla yet? It is really quite simple and if you start now you should have some to give away by Christmas time! Now why would you want to make your own Homemade Vanilla? You know what the vanilla is made from: No fillers or hidden ingredients It’s cheaper than buying […]
Make your own Apple Cider Vinegar!
Making apple cider vinegar is an easy activity to begin your journey into the world of make-your-own staples. It’s basically fool-proof! All you need is: a large container; glass is best – like a wide mouth jar but we’ve even used a 5-gallon food-grade bucket for large-scale production. Make sure it’s clean and […]
The no-poo experiment
Have you heard about the no-shampoo or “no poo” way of cleaning your hair? “No poo” is using baking soda and vinegar to clean your hair instead of shampoo. I first heard about it a year ago and at first thought it sounded strange. But the idea stuck with me and started to intrigue me […]
A big girl’s bedroom, part 2
It’s amazing what you can find when you go through old boxes. Just this week as I was going through a box that had been sitting in my craft room for ages, I found a stack of paint cards and in them were the colors that we had purchased to originally work on Little Chick’s […]
A big girl’s bedroom
This post has been a long time coming … almost two years in fact! I started thinking about writing it when we switched Little Chick over to a toddler bed and we did a bit of remodeling to her room. Flashback to almost 11 years ago: one weekend we had family come over to the […]
How a $25 desk turned into a $700 project
My company recently merged two locations into one building. They had planned to do this all along ever since they built a new distribution center a few years ago – eventually. This fall, management was approached by another local company to buy our old building and that put a deadline on our move. Unfortunately, that […]
Apple season – pressing apples
October means apples. To some extent, September too. But this is the month where we need to make sure we have all the apples we need for the coming winter. When we lived in town, our neighbors had an apple press. They’d get several bushels of apples from a local orchard and spend an afternoon […]
Summer deck remodel
Papa has been busy the last two weeks. If you looked at pictures from earlier this year, our deck was beginning to need some serious help. It had a wonderful weathered look that was awesome as a back-drop for taking pictures of my finished projects. However, as a deck, it was looking rather sad. Not […]