Artsy Metropolitan Living In A Satire
When you have a fixer upper house on significant acreage, a bunch of kids, and bunch of animals, gardens, fruit groves, a tree farm, and a crafty nature, the projects pile up.
A Lard with Eucalyptus soap recipe. Yesterday, I worked on another batch of soap. I have always only made vegetable based soaps for various reasons and decided to try out a lard recipe this time. I found a basic recipe online and tweaked the ingredients to make it a little more moisturizing and to make …
While not every batch turns out quite right, making your own lye soap can be fun and satisfying. I made my first batch of lye soap a little over 10 years ago. I didn’t have any proper equipment ( I still don’t) and my honey oatmeal bars didn’t turn out so well. I had a …
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Reducing how much food we waste can be a difficult issue to tackle, especially when you have kids. I want to waste less food. It’s horrible really. The food we end up throwing out sickens me. I used to be much better when we were dirt poor and had a $10 a week food budget. …
Well, we finished moving last week. Our new place has twice as much space as our last. And because I can, I am going to completely change my decorating motif/theme/whathaveyou. I have been schlepping the same lamps and curtains around from apartment to apartment and I am just sick of them. They are dingy and …
I have never quite felt comfortable anywhere I lived. I don’t mean the location, but the actual apartment. In my younger years it was often due to stunted(terrifying?) relationships with roommates or the fact that those early apartments were complete dumps closely resembling abandoned housing seen in horror films. (Seriously, what was that smell and …