My morning muse for this morning is Jennifer of YouPinspireMe, who was recently crowing about how you know it’s Christmas time when your post about 25 Ways to Display Christmas Cards suddenly gets a ridiculous amount of organic search hits (no I won’t tell you how many, but I had to go cry over a…
St. Patrick’s Day Hat – Guest Author @Youpinspireme
The Walking Workstation Experiment
3 Ways to Wrap Gifts (and Ditch the Dull Bag)
Somehow the Christmas Paper Wrapping Fairy missed me when she was handing out life skills, and I’ve been struggling into my adult years with trying to wrap a present beautifully correctly without making a disaster of the whole thing. A good wrapping job, for me, involves not having any of the underside of the paper…
9 (Free!) Adorable Christmas Crochet Projects
I’ve been thinking about busting out my needles and yarn again… It’s been a while since I’ve done my crocheting. And some of these free patterns are totally adorable. Or maybe I’m just nesting. I am not sure. One thing is for sure, crocheting is something I can do, and all these other Christmas crafty…
5 Reasons I Should Be Banned From Having Elf on the Shelf
Elmer’s Glue GAK (A Polymerization Story)
First Aid for Cast Iron
I’ve only recently started to come around to embracing the idea of using un-enameled cast iron. The biggest obstacle in my acceptance, like for many people, was the question of care. How do you take care of this strange beast, which can never be washed in a dishwasher, or with soap? And–oh em gee–what if you…
Homemade Wooden Self Watering Planters (A Comprehensive Guide)
This is an amalgamation reposting of much of the information found on my site from last spring, and also part of the SIP 101 that I contributed to Homegrown.org. QUICK NAVIGATION Intro Important Notes Materials / Wood Cutting List Building Instructions Construction Photos Soilless Potting Mix Initial Fertilization and Starting Up Ongoing Feeding Pest control…