4th of July Skirt or… the other easiest way in the world to make a skirt

· categorized in Kids, Repurposing Tutorials, Sewing Tutorials,

First, Happy 4th of July!!! Now, on to the project. This is about how I roll of late. Yesterday, we rummaged around for red, white, and blue clothes for the 4th of July. When we found out Drew didn’t have anything red I grabbed an old shirt that was already a bit cut up and …

Nature vs. Me

· categorized in Garden,

This year in my gardens I’m growing tomatoes… and nature is growing tomatoes. We are competing and here’s where we stand. Nature is kicking my butt! On the left, you can see an example of my plants. In February I started a lot of tomato plants by seed. Every day I misted the soil and …

Cherry Pie

· categorized in Food,

It’s almost the end of our cherries for the year. A few handfuls of fresh ones remain. This Father’s Day I made a cherry pie for my man and it was really really good! I always wanted to have a recipe with a “secret ingredient” and now I do but it won’t be a secret …

Menu

· categorized in Food, Miscellaneous,

Take scrapbook paper and insert in picture frame behind glass. Use letter stickers to write FOOD. Use dry erase marker on glass to write the week’s menu. Done. This was my fastest and maybe most functional diy ever. I use it every day! I’ve been drooling over menu boards on pinterest and mine is not …

Cherries

· categorized in Food, Garden, Kids,

My belly is full of cherries. As was my canner, freezer, fridge, and the dehydrator (borrowed from a friend) today. We made cherry jam, fruit leather, dried cherries, cherry chicken salad for supper, cherry smoothies for snack, and frozen cherries (as good or better than frozen grapes to just eat plain in my opinion). My …

Validation Images

· categorized in Uncategorized,

My current output is this and it is my blog so this is what gets written today. No, I didn’t make anything and I didn’t even take a picture of anything. A bit of a different flavor than normal to this post. What can I say? I’ve been contemplative. I have beyond natural trouble reading …

Sweet Summer Dress

· categorized in Crochet Patterns, Kids,

For some reason it seems winter and fall go so well with curling up on the couch with a ball of yarn and crocheting or knitting. But my creativity usually flees when the heat spikes in summer. I do spend much time in my garden and this year we’ve got a couple new gardens and …

Woodstock

· categorized in Crochet Patterns,

Snoopy and Woodstock just go together. So what else could I do but make Woodstock too? It was by request and I needed to do him quickly so I used the yarn I had on hand. But to make him more to scale with my Snoopy pattern he could be made with a smaller gauge …

Little Somethings

· categorized in Kids,

It is Sunday. It seems like every time we go to church the kids get sick after with some virus. And then we’re usually sick so long that we miss church one or two weeks then I find myself wondering if we should really go again or not. It costs us weeks of sleep disturbed …

Drew’s News

· categorized in Homeschool, Kids,

Well, I was going to do this a while ago but never got around to it. Though this newspaper is now a bit out of date it’s still so cute that I want to share it and it’s still a very fun idea. Drew’s arch nemesis this year and last year in school was writing. …