A week from today will be Mother’s Day. What to get her? What does she like? Is mom a crafty girl or is she a reader? What’s the budget? Do you have a menu plan? How about activities? As a mom, here’s the things I always enjoyed on this day. Make me lunch. Or clean …
Category Archives: Home Making
The Slow Death Of Vintage Skills?
Look at this… 👀 https://pin.it/6YRcfau Do you remember the level of housekeeping your grandmothers did? Granted I didn’t grew up around my late maternal grandmother, but I do remember the vacations we would take to visit her and her home was always tidy. There wasn’t laundry stacked everywhere. Dust didn’t have a prayer against Grams. …
Watch “How To Make Jeans! Creating Custom Pants From Start To Finish – Tock Custom Sewing Tutorial” on YouTube
Tock Custom is sharing how to make a pair of jeans. No they don’t look or feel like mass produced pants. Tock uses a softer denim fabric than commerical companies use. On top of that is you can personalize them to your taste. Perhaps putting faux jewels on the pockets or embroidery on the front …
13 Mother’s Day Decor
Look at this… 👀 https://pin.it/5M2UPcF In this post there is 13 beautiful Mothers Day Decor. Below will be the ones I liked the best. MOTHER’S DAY ALOHA BRUNCH: My daughter’s first birthday party for a school friend was a Hawaiian theme. It was cute. This decor reminded me of that. MOTHER’S DAY BOHO CITRUS TABLESCAPE: …
15 Best Summer Table Decorations
Look at this… 👀 https://pin.it/eeURWpt Here are 15 tablescapes for Summer. With all fairness it’s 48° but feels like 43°. But I am hopeful. Below will be ones I really like. And could see us using if we had a back yard. BLACK & WHITE SUMMER TABLE DECOR: Black and White meets green apples with …
Mother’s Day!
May 14th is Mother’s Day. The next few weeks I am going to share some ideas to celebrate that day without breaking the bank. Also, I will share meal ideas. For today the idea I will pitch is take over some of her duties. Seriously! If there’s something mom does and you can do it, …
Watch “SINGER® Sewing Machine Threading Tutorial” on YouTube
Sewing is a skill we are going to need going forward through the next few years. So this is my goal for 2023 besides survive. I know these machines can be expensive. Singer.com has machines for half of the price of brand new machine. If you’re going to use these buy now pay later programs …
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Earth Day! 🌎
Today is Earth Day. So here’s what we do for the earth everyday. Not just on Earth Day. We’ve been doing these things for sometime. Laundry is twice a week. I wish I could say we use the facilities in our complex, but we don’t because the people here are disgusting. What do you do …
Watch “Frugal Living Tips From The Great Depression- NEW Grocery Price Book!” on YouTube
Kimmie has some awesome tips for frugal living. 1. Cook from scratch. Once you learn to do this nothing will be out of your reach. 2. Utilize scrapes. Use carcasses (bones) to make stock or broth. Any bones will do. You may raise eyebrows when you ask for the Thanksgiving turkey carcass. 3. Stop eating …
Watch “1950’s Portion Sizes and Lifestyle” on YouTube
This video will be looking at the 1950s portion sizes and overall lifestyle. Here’s what I found, they were busy. Not by today’s standard of busy. Dad goes to work, kiddies go to school, and mom cleans and preps the house for the family’s return. Mom didn’t just set around waiting for the motivation to …
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