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I stayed home all week except for Saturday, when I left to go garage sale shopping with my mom (she drove). We hit up a couple of community garage sales as well as a rummage sale. I went with a list of needed items and Christmas gift ideas. I found several books for the children that…
Larkspur and stock from the garden I cut flowers from the garden and brought them in to enjoy on my table. I printed up seed packets so that I could share extra seeds with a friend. I spent time playing in the backyard with my four youngest daughters, pushing them on our swings (which are…
Ezrom bought some clay with his birthday money from his grandparents and made the Polie family. I harvested green onions, garlic scapes, marjoram, thyme, and rosemary from my garden this week. I planted dill and mustard seeds from my pantry in the garden. I planted several more seeds in the garden–both flowers and food. I transplanted…
I cut flowers from the garden for the house. I cut lots of basil and made a large batch of pesto. What we didn’t use on sandwiches, I put in the freezer in several bags to use later. I armed the sandwiches on the panini press that I bought earlier this year at a garage…
Fall arrives in a day in Las Vegas. One day this week, my children were outside playing in the sprinklers and eating homemade popsicles. Then a wind storm came in overnight, with fast, cold winds, and the high temperature drops 19º from the day before. Usually the storm comes right around Halloween every year, which…
I was visiting with a sister from church the other day, and we were talking about all of the ways in which I use rosemary. I have one plant, that has become huge over the years. I make so many things with rosemary, including rosemary potatoes, rosemary olive oil bread, rosemary white bean soup,…
Brandy, thank you for providing a place for us to meet, to lift & strengthen our spirits together, & to share knowledge with each other. – Marivene
Thank you, Brandy, for your blog and your website. You are a blessing and encourager to others.
Thank you Brandy for taking time out of your busy life to think of and help us make our families lives more beautiful. You are wonderful! XoP.S..I am so bad at crafts, but I am going to make those Paris and London bookmarks next week when the girls are back at school!! With your step by step tutorial I think even I may be able to make them….I hope.
Thanks for posting. You are a true encouragement! JoMarie
Thank you, Brandy, for all you share with us! Teri
It is challenging to live outside of our cultural norms of spending and acquisition. Some of us live this way by choice and others are forced into this way of life. I am so grateful to you Brandy for leading the way holding a blazing candle – showing us how to live frugally with beauty and grace.Thank you for sharing your family, time, experience, knowledge, and energy with us.Blessings – Libby