Making Home
Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival
July 8, 2008
My experimentation with making my own moisturizing cream is included in this week's Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival over at the funky Home Ec 101 What You Wish Your Mama Taught You. Other entries that were of particular interest to me are: A lemon-lime body scrub that sounds good ...
Trash Report
July 1, 2008
No worries, I won't make this into a weekly feature, like the garden reports. My sis-in-law recently issued a garbage challenge over at her blog InsideOut. Specifically to record how much trash your family generates in one week. I'm all for participating in some good ol' fashioned eco-friendly competition. So, ...
Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival
June 24, 2008
Check out Chezart for this week's Make it From Scratch Blog Carnival. A link to my laundry soap recipe is posted there along with lots of cool "make it yourself" projects. I just love learning from other home-industrious people! There's even a recipe for making shampoo from soapwort plant - ...
Greener...down the toilet
June 6, 2008
This journey to live more "green" is a process, often painfully slow. Sometimes the steps we take are large (can't think of any recent ones) but more often they are daily, small steps towards living a more earth friendly lifestyle, for lack of a better phrase. One of this month's ...
Mother's Day - The Day After
May 12, 2008
homemade soap curing in kitchenToday I surrender to the realities of homemaking and motherhood: breakfast dishes dirty floors an empty fridge I determine to quiet my restless creative spirit and appreciate the beauty of: ordered clothes drawers clean counters food prepared with love Keeping a home of peace, love and ...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - a review
April 16, 2008
Overall, the book was a fantastic read. Kingsolver is engaging, funny, convincing and just an all round excellent writer. The book is an eat your local veggies and meat mantra but the narrative of her family keeps it personal and interesting.
Dishwasher love
April 1, 2008
A new dishwasher came to our house yesterday arrived in the most usual way. Up drove the truck unloaded its gear the first new appliance of this year. All dishes go in with nary a rinse dirty utensils, pots even pans quite a treat for these dishwater hands. A shiny ...
