One of my finds in the freezer over the weekend was a couple of half pints of cherry freezer jam bottled in ’03. I don’t know why for sure, but this jam started crystallizing pretty quick after I made it and it has only gotten worse. These are the last 2 jars of it. We […]
Archives for March 2009
Cleaning Out the Freezer and Ode to My Foodsaver
Spent most of yesterday cleaning out our two freezers. I think Someone’s been hearing my grumblings about eating elk for every meal, because in the last two weeks we’ve been given ground beef (yep real beef, not ground venison or elk) and various cuts of pork from other people’s freezer cleanouts. And this last round […]
Great Trials Lie Ahead–Prepare and Have Hope
You know I don’t usually wax philosophical on this site or get all gloom and doomy, and I’m still not–you have to watch to the end. This video from David Christenson features words of Latter-day Saint prophets and apostles. If you are LDS (Mormon), you’ll know who they are. If you are not LDS, you […]
Practically Free Garden Weed Barrier
We actually had a couple of days last week warm enough to get outside and accomplish something (I’m kind of a wimp in the cold). I started with my mini herb garden. I only have 3 herbs in it and have had plans on expanding it for at least 2 years, but it just hasn’t […]
Been Busy–Planning and Fixing
If you haven’t hit the polls yet, they end tonight, so swing on over to the sidebar and give your answers! Now on to your regularly scheduled post . . . I think I’m turning into my mother. Not that it’s a bad thing, she’s amazing. But she has a bunch of chickens, and I […]
The Polls are Up!
Hi all! I’m running my first ever polls over on the sidebar until Friday night. Just trying to get a feel for where my readers are. At first I thought I would do this for future post ideas, but then I thought, well, I actually have lots of projects coming up, and I’m going to […]
Save Some Cash–Cut Your Own Kids’ Hair!
Hair, hair, hair. Does it never stop growing and needing cut??? Fortunately, you don’t have to pay the salon for haircuts! I’m going to share with you a couple of methods we’ve used to save on the cost of haircuts. Here’s my son in need of one . . .First option is to find a […]
Soap Update and a Warning
The soap is getting slightly harder this evening, so I thought I’d try and get it out of the mold again. I will be lining whatever molds I use next time with butcher paper or wax paper or something–this is ridiculous! And here’s your WARNING: Never use a cheapo knife to try to pry soap […]
Soap Making Adventure Part One
I wasn’t going to post anything on soap making until I had it figured out a little better, but had such a good laugh at Lisa’s recent soap making experience (far too similar to mine!) that I thought I’d post how it’s going at this point, which is why it is Part One, and I […]
Embroidery for Generations
Embroidery has been around for ages. Really. Have you seen some of the fancy stitching on clothing from the 1700’s? What? You haven’t? That’s only my favorite clothing era, so okay, I’ll show you some. Click here for one example, and here for an amazing embroidered wedding gown. And embroidery was around before that as […]