Making Home
Making time for mama to craft and sew
October 8, 2009
If I'm going to be successful in the long term as a stay-at-home mom and homeschooler I have to carve out a little time each week and each day doing something I want to do.
Sweet Stuff - A round up of "simple living" posts
October 6, 2009
About a month ago I wrote a post called simple living myths. At the time there was a lot of blogger discussion (in my internet world) about the complexities of simple living, natural living, sustainable living. Yada yada... whatever you want to call it. Looking back I think the collision ...
A sudsy co-operative dream
September 11, 2009
soap oils A funny thing happened today when I was cleaning up from this week's soap making. Instead of throwing out the plastic that I use to line my wooden soap molds (for the longest time I re-used cardboard boxes until Damien built me molds when I decided to standardize ...
Project learning ~ Bedrooms and Dollhouses (& Pond building too)
September 4, 2009
During the craziness of last month I alluded to getting Celine started on a project. I also briefly mentioned the perhaps projects are our home education modus operandi. I'm not sure I'm ready to hang my hat totally on that idea but my kiddos sure do learn an awful lot ...
Simple living myths
September 1, 2009
I feel almost like a fraud writing about the simple life. These last two months have been very hectic due to circumstances we had not planned and I've been living life at the edge of chaos. Granted my edge is probably different from most and even at the point of ...
summer sacrifices ~ thoughts on owning a rental
August 24, 2009
In these parts our home is called, a 2 family house. Where we are from originally this type of house is called a "house with a suite or mother-in-law apartment". Regardless of what it's called the idea is the same; part of our house is an apartment/suite/flat that we rent ...
Time I spend feeding my family
August 12, 2009
Meals are cornerstone daily rituals we plan for, anticipate, cook, sit down and eat and of course clean up after three times each day. This makes me think it would be nice to live in a place where they only eat 2 meals a day - does such a place exist?
