The past couple of days, our area has gotten a bit of a reprieve from the excessive heat that the Southern States have been experiencing. But the temperatures are due to head back into the 90s later this week though hopefully not the high 90s we had been enduring. Usually when the summer heat hits, I take a break from…
Last week, for WIP Wednesday, I posted pictures of the lawn chair cushions that I was in the process of making. Well this Wednesday, I can report that the lawn chair cushions have been moved to the 2011 – Projects Completed list. Here’s a before picture. Of the 5, the one on the left was in the best condition and…
Another of the major projects that I wanted to get done this year was recovering the cushions for our lawn chairs. We bought the set of 5 chairs in the fall of the year 2000 when we first moved to Maui to give us something to sit on (both out on the lanai and inside the house) while we waited…
This year, in addition to growing herbs, strawberries and tomatoes in our three little square foot gardens, I’ve been experimenting with some container gardening. I have two large planters that sit on either side of our garage door. I usually fill those with some kind of tall grass in the middle surrounded by flowering annuals. This year the tall grass…
Continuing on from Part 1 of Christmas on a Budget Series – Buy Christmas Fabric Only When On Sale I’ve been sewing for over 40 years, but the great thing about Christmas themed fabrics is that you don’t have to be an experienced seamstress to create really pretty Christmas gifts or decorative items for your home. For example, here’s a…
I very rarely buy fabric when it’s full price. On those occasions when I find I need fabric to complete a project and it’s not on sale, I try to find a 40% off coupon to use. But most especially, I never buy Christmas themed fabric at full price because it comes on sale at least twice a year. Right…
Back in this post, I mentioned in passing that I had recently purchased this vintage Singer 15-91 off of ebay. Since it arrived, I’ve been searching for a cabinet of it’s own to put it in. Dave and I and our son have searched through several local antique/junk shops, never finding exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something…
Where we live in northwest Georgia, our winters are usually fairly mild and over-wintering vegetables can be a challenge. Our rental house has a cement slab foundation, so we don’t have a basement where we could build even a temporary cold room for storing them. But over the past few years of living here, we’ve experimented and come up…
This morning, from this little strawberry patch… I picked our first strawberries of the season. Strawberries and cream for dessert tonight!
That is not a typo in the title. You really can make Christmas gifts for less than $2 per gift. In some cases, for free except for the time and love you put into making them. As I mentioned in my first post in this series while our children are attending university/college, their big Christmas gift each year is their…