About a month ago my husband bought me a new laptop, and ever since I feel like I've been in a fight with technology. First of all, the laptop did not always play videos or audio. I couldn't figure out what was wrong so we took it back. Now with this next laptop I cannot …
This has been a busy week of sewing, sewing and more sewing. I've enjoyed it so much. It has felt awesome to clear out some of the projects in my mountainous pile of projects. I made four messenger bags - three for children and one for a lady friend. I also mended several things that …
Bread making is something that I do every week, more than once a week. I make six to nine loaves every week. I've been making bread since I was fifteen although not in those quantities. When you have teenagers it tends to increase the amount of bread you need - just sayin'. Maybe someday I'll …
I'm still addicted to knitting socks. I'm on my seventh pair! These are my smallest pair yet because they're for my four year old. Here's a couple of pictures. The brown pair is my husband's, the tweed pair is my dad's. Now on to what I found interesting this week on the internet. This post …
This has been quite the week for me. I've been sick with the flu that wouldn't leave. I used essential oils to help with my breathing, vitamin C powder to give myself megadoses of this vitamin and the occasional ibuprofen when the aches and headache just felt too overwhelming. I finally feeling like I'm getting …
As I've mentioned before, I LOVE lists. I have so much going on. If I try to hold all of my "to-do's" in my head I'll forget something which will drive me crazy. Generally about twice a year I post a list of things I want to sew over the next few months. I was …
For the last several weeks I've been using Fridays to do a lot of baking all at once. I thought about doing it on Saturdays, but my husband's work schedule has changed, and we need to keep Saturdays open for family activities. I was hoping that by doing a lot of baking all at once …
For weeks and months - maybe even years - I've read about women who do once-a-month cooking, or bake for the week/month, or make up ten freezer meals in an afternoon. I've always wanted to try something like this, but could never get all the ingredients together to do it all at once. Well, today …
One of the things that helps me stay on the Trim Healthy Mama diet is simple recipes and things that I can make ahead of time. One of those things is fudge, but sadly I can't live on fudge alone. So for my lunches I always have a supply of almond flour muffins on hand. …
Oddly enough this recipe comes from a dream. I dreamed one night about making cheese crackers. When I woke up I knew I had to try it. Basically I just took my recipe for whole wheat crackers and added grated cheese to it. I rolled the dough as thin as possible and used a one …
Intentional Simplicity 