Sewing and Crafts Using Fat Quarters What do you do when you are offered five pieces of a new fabric line to test drive? If it's fall, you may be like me and decide to make Christmas gifts! The last few weeks I have been reacquainting myself with my sewing machine. I have enjoyed the quality of the fabric from Andover Fabrics Little House on the Prairie Collection. Using the fat quarters to make gifts has been inspiring and I have so many more ideas for the near future! Using the … [Read more...]
Chickens From Scratch Celebration Giveaway
Chickens From Scratch Celebration Giveaway Celebrate the Good Times I have it all pulled together! I wanted to celebrate reaching a milestone on my social media page and also, and more importantly, celebrate the publishing of my new book! Chickens From Scratch is now available! But wait! While I do hope for sales of the book, I want to celebrate first. I am giving away 5 copies of my new book, Chickens From Scratch! You … [Read more...]
The Season For Gifting
The Season for Gifting! No matter how you look at the beauty of the Christmas season, it is the season for gifting. One of my favorite things to do is give gifts! I do not give gifts so that I will get gifts in return, I just genuinely love to give gifts. (is that weird?) Anyway, since I appreciate all of you that read this blog, so much, I wish I could give each and every one of you a gift. Being that I am far from being Oprah Winfrey, I can't think of a way to accomplish … [Read more...]
Preserving the Bounty
Many of us in the homestead,natural life style and prepper blogging communities are well versed in the methods used to preserve fresh food. In fact we are so passionate about eating fresh food all year long that we want to help others learn to preserve food too. A group of us got together to bring you a mega prize package of food preservation essentials. And to make the prize even sweeter many of the bloggers also included an extra prize! The first part of the prize is the new Stainless Steel … [Read more...]
Don’t Fear the Pressure Canner!
Will it explode? Will I end up burned and disfigured? Is it too hard or too time consuming? If you have not canned with a pressure canner yet, these may be some of the questions running through your mind. Maybe you have mastered the hot water bath canner but the thought of moving on to the big bad pressure canner has you stopped at tomatoes and fruit. I was like that for many years. So many of us grew up with no one to teach us the basics of canning and preserving … [Read more...]
