A little natural fall decor

Some days I would love to be more like Martha Stewart. She has this knack to make things look so great without really seeming to try. Of course she also apparently has no business ethics or regard for the law but that’s a whole other story… As the days are...

It all starts with a sink…

Ok, my hormone spike seems to have passed…and I have officially started on the first of the 31 day program from FlyLady. Wow, I kinda feel like a recovering alcoholic or something. 😉 I mentioned it before but the first step is to shine your sink…and keep...

Before and After: The Old Kitchen Becomes an Office

This post is part of the Before & After series I’ve started about the renovation of our house. If you’d like to read more about our projects on the house, please visit our Farmhouse page. When we bought the house in August 2006, the kitchen in the main...

Make your own organic rooting hormone

We have found that taking a cutting from a tomato plant is quite simple and it roots really easily. But we’d like to do other plants as well and sometimes a rooting hormone would be useful. No need to worry about buying some expensive chemicals or organic...

Recycling old candles

We weren’t really feeling like doing anything too physical today so we decided to try something else new – recycling a big basket of bits and pieces of candles that was left in the house when we moved in. We’ve thought about doing this for a while,...