..... Our Old Homestead

It took me a while but I finally finished my Five Fat Quarter Scarf that I mentioned starting  here .   As I was sew...

Lunch time....I needed a new lunch bag to take with me to work so I searched around the web looking for inspiration. I ran across a few i...

It has been three days since I mixed up my first batch of blender soap.  If you missed it, here  is the post. I was too excited not to ta...

Making my own homemade soap has eluded me for years.  I had tried Rhonda's recipe over at Down to Earth  a couple of times.  I followed ...

Here in Minnesota we cannot plant our garden until the end of May because of frost .... some people believe you shouldn't plant until a...

We use alot of herbs and spices in our kitchen.  Occasionally my dear hubby loves to don an apron and cook up a storm and when he does, he t...

I decided that I wanted to try and make my own homemade sauerkraut...another way to be self-sufficient. Bob and Pasie love the stuff, I ca...