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 […]
Gotta Love the Versatility of Home Canning!
We home can lots of stuff around here, but here’s one I’ve never tried before. My kids did this canning, but I’ll say right now, there are better ways than this to “preserve” your childhood memories! Keep preparing! Angela *************************************************************** Subscribe to my email newsletter for updates and special deals. Please be sure to follow
Crazy Week
I cannot believe it is Friday already again! This week has been a bit crazy with home and mom duties. I have been gathering stuff for my emergency notebooks and almost have all the originals I need in one place. Had to order my youngest’s birth certificate and got that now so I think it’s […]
Teach Your Children
This is a post for me. Maybe it will benefit some of you as well. :) How much should you involve your kids when doing self reliance/preparedness type activities? My opinion (of course every thing I write here is my opinion) is that they should be very involved. For example, our 72 hour emergency kits […]
Sweet Meat Squash
Had some friends that grew sweet meat squash and gave us one. It’s a winter squash that’s about 15-18 inches across and shaped like a flattened pumpkin. Kind of gray on the outside and really hard and orange on the inside. It has a very nice sweet flavor. They dropped it and it broke on […]
