Passions I can't deny
Posted in Cleaning, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 5th, 2010
Nothing makes me happier than a bargain. The other day on my way out of the local grocery store, there sat a bag of used coffee grounds next to the bag recycling bin. Above the bag was a sign: FREE for your compost, worm garden, or roses. Well, of course I can’t pass up a [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 3rd, 2010
With another Writing Your Story class completed, I am still thinking about all of our life stories that need to be told, if not for ourselves, for those we leave behind.
Every day I seem to run into something that tells my story. Just like the other day while cleaning a closet I found these five [...]
The rinse is pretty simple and according to the book it gives any hair type body.
This is a nice rinse, smelled good, and seemed to give my hair a little bit more body. However, having to keep it refrigerated and used up in a week makes it a pretty high maintenance goodie. I’m off to [...]
Posted in Baking on Feb 28th, 2010
I’ve not been keeping up with the Healthy Breads in Five group. It seems like I just haven’t taken the time to make the dough which is so easy to do. Anyway, today I finally completed one of the breads for March. This is the 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Olive Oil. For the recipe [...]
A couple years ago for Christmas I renewed an old interest in making beauty supplies. Several friends received peppermint lip balm, lavender eye pillows, and body cream. I notice just this past couple of weeks that I was running out of my face lotion and remembered the book I had purchased that year – Organic [...]
I still don’t like to clean, but it makes the job much easier. I also found that this is a great cleaner, but it still wouldn’t get the stove burners clean. I’ve tried about everything I could buy to clean that stove and decided I’d just try a paste of baking soda. It did a [...]
Today was my day to make yogurt. Well, really it’s my month. This used to be Dave’s task, but many months ago we decided to take turns on yogurt duty. Today was my day for this first batch this month.
If you’ve never eaten homemade yogurt, you are missing a treat. It’s not sweet (you can [...]
