I love going to garden shows! They are a wonderful place to gather ideas for future yard and garden projects. At one show they were featuring a revolving drum composter. The price? $200 for two plastic bins screwed together and mounted on a metal base to spin it. I was sure with a little ingenuity we could come up with our own…
Today being Pancake (aka Shrove) Tuesday, we’ll be having pancakes and breakfast sausages for supper. It’s a tradition that we celebrated when I was living at home with my parents and something that I have continued with my family. For those who may not be familiar with this tradition, tomorrow is Ash Wednesday which begins the lenten period for…
Rice therapy bags are great for soothing and helping to relax sore, aching muscles. They can be heated in the microwave to be used warm or stored in the freezer for use as cold packs. They are also a super, simple easy-sew project that can be made in whatever size you need. For our oldest daughter for Valentine’s I made…
Before you wash those empty bottles of barbeque sauce or mustard or Worcestershire sauce to get them ready for recycling, be sure they really are empty. Pour about 1 tsp of vinegar into the bottle, swirl it around and then empty it into an almost empty bottle of Ketchup. (I save those for just this purpose.) This past weekend we…
Out there in blogland, you wouldn’t have to search far to find posts about cooking meals ahead and freezing them. In fact, many posts you find talk about setting aside one day a week or every few weeks to cook and freeze meals. There are even sites that will show you how to make enough meals for a whole month.…
That’s right… as of today there are 11 months until Christmas 2009. This year, as last year, we’re going to be having a mostly homemade Christmas. But this year, we’re going one step further and in order to get everything done so that I’m not rushing those last weeks, I’m starting now. So what am I adding to this year’s…
One of the best ways to save money is to make minor clothing repairs yourself rather than paying someone else to do them for you. And one of the easiest repairs of all is to replace missing buttons on shirts, coats or pants. You can buy cards of buttons at any fabric store. My local fabric store has an entire…
This is a perfectly good sock. Except when I zoom in, you’ll see that there’s a small hole in the toe. And every time I put it on, my toe works it’s way out of that hole and that is really uncomfortable. It was a simple fix though. First, I gathered my materials. Cotton thread, needle, scissors and light bulb. …
One of the ways that I save both time and money is to flash freeze certain foods in order to be able to pull them out of the freezer in the quantities that I want, when I want without having to pry things apart. To flash freeze anything, simply lay out individually whichever food you are freezing on a cookie…
When our youngest was little he loved to put on puppet shows. The couch was his puppet theatre of choice. He’d hide behind it and then up, over the back would pop his two bear puppets and the show would begin. This year, my husband’s grandson is about the age our youngest was when he started putting on puppet shows. …