Clever Food Storage for Your Fridge

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Economical food storage that maximizes shelf space

My mom is a very resourceful person. You have to be when you raise ten children in Read more…

Quirk Books: Home Economics, Bento Boxes, and Tiny Food

We’ve been enjoying these fun reads from Quirk Books. I thought they would be interesting and haven’t been disappointed – maybe some of you will like then too! Quirk books specializes in quirky reads, and I find them to be a lot of fun!

Home Economics takes vintage homemaking advice and republishes it for the 21st century – Read more…

My Cloth Diaper Solution

the cloth diaper cover that works for me

I’ve been using cloth diapers since Emma was nine or ten months old, and and after four kids and six years’ worth of experimentation I’ve finally found a solution that works really well Read more…

Use Fleece to Patch Clothing

skirt repair or embellishment with fleece scraps

I’ve written before about using fleece to patch clothingRead more…

Cloth Kleenex: Easier on kids’ noses!

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As regular readers of this blog know, our house has been sick a LOT lately! I cut up an old pair of flannel pajamas into square-ish shapes, serged the edges Read more…


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