Mason jar soap dispenser…

I think the hubs is catching on.  I casually walked out and asked if he had any two-part epoxy and he quickly replied “I thinks so….. *pause*… WHY???” “Oh nothing..I just have a project brewing” It’s at this point I can tell he is wondering what approach he should take: Make up a reason to [...]

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Logo shirts to aprons!

click on the pic to take you to the directions to make these.  I am loving them – I have several logo shirts that I love but don’t fit (maybe they are too big – yeah right) and the whole tshirt pillow thing doesn’t fit my decor.

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Happier spending less..

a picture I took yesterday ties in perfectly with today’s article on WiseBread.com – How Spending Less Made Me Happier I had just made the comment to DH last week that a shiny red KitchenAid mixer was needed for my kitchen.  I am doing a LOT of cooking from scratch and a stand mixer would [...]

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use your coffee grounds as a beauty treatment?

Used as a scrub on your lower half it’s said to minimize the appearance of cellulite. Work coffee grounds into your hair after you wash it instead of your regular conditioner to make it soft and shiny I know right?? But I do have a lot of coffee grounds.. and I’m cheap frugal… and I [...]

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on socks and simplicity

I just realized this is my second post on socks.  Is it weird that I spend so much time thinking about them?  Probably.  That weirdness has a lot of company in my head. This post has been rambling around in my head for a few days, but today I’m going to link you to an [...]

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less money, more pleasure

This post is basically a commentary on Simple Dollar’s  post The Challenge – and the Advantage – of Going Minimal I’m only using snippets here.. but the whole article is worth your time to read and I am going to assume (oh yes I am) you have read it before you read the rest of [...]

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natural face care

I’ve used the OCM on my face for a while now, and I really like.  I think I might have even posted about it – but I spent too much time finding my image to go back and look Simple Mom has some great information on it as well as links to MORE great resources.  [...]

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toys toys everywhere

I snapped the photos for this post last night and then this morning I found a new blog favorite Zen Family Habits – Less Toys, Please (note to self – figure out a pretty way to do links) synchronicity huh? When we made our big downsizing/simplifying/live in our shop move one of the things that [...]

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Under Air Conditioned… (by choice mostly)

You know how some people are under-employed, under-educated, or under-insured? I am under-airconditioned. We don’t have AC in the main part of the cabin, but we do in the bedrooms (or trailer serving as bedroom suite as the case may be) This is mostly by choice. I could go out and get an AC this [...]

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more on the floor

Sorry.. but my floors have been consuming my every moment of free time (and moments snatched while waiting for web pages to load) I am like slap happy about how they are turning out. Let’s take a moment and visit them in the raw state… (remember this is just supposed to be a subfloor with [...]

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