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Made It Monday: A quilt gone horribly wrong & sourdough starter
Well, you can’t win them all. I started this “simple” nine-patch quilt quite some time ago, and while the final machine quilting stages have probably botched the whole thing, I can still say that I...
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Made It Monday: Baby Bloomers, Trellises and Peter Reinhart’s Lean Bread
Last Monday, I was in the midst of post-law-school-graduation-being-7-months-pregnant-with-three-boys-exhaustion, so while I made these bloomers before that Monday, I didn’t have the time or energy to...
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Made It Monday: Burp Cloths, Newborn Baby Pants and Swaddle Blankets
Last week I got into a sewing spurt, and am hoping to have something to show each week, whether it is something food-related or sewing. I have been buying some baby clothes at garage sales and thrift...
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Our New Square Foot Garden Beds – May 2014 Update
I’ll try to keep this brief and mainly picture-based, but here are the initial photos of our four new square foot garden beds. They cost about $200 total to make including wood, soil, and trellis...
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“Music saved my life”: On Alice Herz-Sommer and why we need to create
“Can you imagine they said I would be allowed to rehearse only one hour each day before I went to my assigned work?” questioned Alice Herz-Sommer in a book entitled, A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from...
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Garden Update – April 2014
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow....
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A review of strawberry roots from Aldi
One of the posts that gets more traffic around this time of the year is one I wrote almost two years ago on how to plant strawberry roots. The ones I planted then were from Walmart, and they did...
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The first year they sleep: Thoughts on perennials and making things by hand
My sage is growing back. It’s hard to believe sometimes that this herb that will eventually turn into a massive bush of silvery leaves and lavender blossoms started in a cold, dusty basement a couple...
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An update on my winter sowing attempts – Spring 2014
A few months ago I blogged about my attempts to start seeds in milk jugs outdoors in the throes of a Kansas winter. As with most things related to gardening, some things have done remarkably well,...
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Frugal Experiment: Starting yogurt from frozen cubes
I am a bit of a stickler for a good, tangy yogurt, and recently I found that frozen cubes of older, plain yogurt, even if they have been in the freezer for 6 months or more, can work as a starter for...
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Home Depot’s Spring Black Friday Sale
I have lots of ways I try to save money on gardening, but one sale I always look forward to is the Spring Black Friday sale at the Home Depot. It usually happens around the beginning of April, and...
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Seedaholic
Every year I say that I will simplify. Every year I say that I will scale back. But then an unexpected warm snap in January stirs up the gardener in me, and the empty gardens and mosquito-free air...
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race – an update on our homeschooling mid-year
It has been awhile since I blogged about the progress of our homeschooling efforts. At the beginning of the year, it is always easy to make a list of what you would like to do, what you wish you had...
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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Spaetzle Recipe
This delicious gluten-free, dairy-free spaetzle recipe is an adaptation of one that I found here and works really well on its own or in soups, as pictured above. Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Spaetzle 1/2...
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Frugal Fall Ideas
Since the last time I posted, a lot has happened – one husband returning to law school, two birthdays, three visits from family, four pumpkins harvested, five days a week of homeschooling, and on and...
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My curriculum for 2013-2014
I have about a week and a half half of a week to go until we “officially” start school for the coming year. Like many homeschoolers, school doesn’t always end for us in May or June – we keep up with...
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Sunflowers
I must confess, I haven’t always been that enamored with sunflowers. But this year, I thought it would be fun for my son to plant some, and given that we live in the Sunflower state, it only seemed...
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The challenges of homeschooling
In my last post on my unusual introduction to homeschooling, I talked about the spark of learning that I even caught myself as I encountered high-quality literature in the curriculum we used with my...
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Favorite Frugal Recipes: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Sandwich Bread
As we have adjusted to a gluten-free lifestyle, I have found it easier to make gluten-free versions of muffins, pancakes, waffles, and cakes. But whenever I tried to attempt a gluten-free recipe for...
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Garden Update: July 2013
I knew from the beginning that this summer would not be as productive as it could, mainly because I was taking a vacation right in the middle of it for two and a half weeks. My goal however, was to...
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