After a brief hiatus from school for the children last week while I took online free Photoshop classes for 3 days, we’re back to normal school this week. I have school year-round, so that I can interrupt it as needed, for canning, new babies, beautiful spring days, Christmas sewing, etc. We still have school much more…
What do children really want? More one on one-time with YOU! It’s better than any other gift you can give. Click on the image below for the free pdf. This includes 4 dates with mom and 4 cooking lessons with mom.
We celebrated my son’s birthday last week. I made him a blueberry pie (his request) using some cans of blueberry pie filling a friend picked up when Fresh N Easy closed down near us (She called me to ask if the prices were good prices, and then on her way home she dropped off some…
I cut and dried sage from our garden. I picked tomatoes from our garden, and we ate some all week long. I picked our first (and so far only) cucumber! I hand pollinated the 1 female cucumber and 2 female zucchini in the garden this week. It is too hot for the bees to…
My frugal table setting for the 4th. I did not buy the jar (I was born that year!) nor did I buy the flags; they have all come to me over the years from different people. The jar used to belong to my mother-in-law. My husband was 13 that year; he remembers buying the jars)….
A Story by Agnes Sligh Turnbull Jennie Musgrave woke at the shrill rasp of the alarm clock as she always woke—with the shuddering start and a heavy realization that the brief respite of the night’s oblivion was over. She had only time to glance through the dull light at the cluttered, dusty room, before…
I love the look of old sewing advertisements. They have a way of making me interested in more needles. Every time I see them, the product, however simple, is about 15 times more expensive than I would normally pay for that same object, without the vintage advertising. With only your printer, some cardstock, a…
Whether you have a regular dollhouse or a cardboard dollhouse, it’s always fun to have things to put inside your dollhouse. (You can also use a box to make a single room). These can be printed for an everyday project, or you can save them for birthday and holiday gifts. These are at…
Print these gift tags on cardstock. When you click print, first choose “preferences” and then “thick paper.” This makes the cardstock go through the printer without problems. Cut tags along the cutting guidelines. Punch a hole in the top center of each tag, or cut a hole if you don’t have a hole punch…
Print these bookplates as gifts or for yourself. Ex Libris means “From the Library of”. Click on your choice below for the Pdf. Classic Bookplates Medieval Bookplates Classic Bookplates Medieval Bookplates Royalty-free images courtesy of Dover Publications and The Graphics Fairy
For a whole lot less Whether you have a small amount of money, or nothing at all, you can still make birthday celebrations special in your family. One of the things that we do as a family is to celebrate birthdays at home with family. We invite grandparents over for dinner and dessert,…