We could all use a little help right now so I hope my mid season Christmas in July Sale will help you get fabrics for projects, masks for protection, and vintage goods for your home!
Families
Tea party for a princess
Throw a princess party on a budget and celebrate just how green your family really can be.
When ‘frugal’ became a bad word in America
The push to consume has replaced other values, to our peril. But many of us are shaking the scales from our eyes and beginning to change for the better.
In praise of the prosaic
I feel a bit sheepish coming in to blog for the day. I’m the first one to harp on infrequent so-called “bloggers” as not the real thing. To blog is to be prolific. Anything else is an occasional essayist and, if you’re choosing the Internet as your venue for it, you’re not even an essayist. […]
Less is definitely more
It’s an oddity of modern life that we consume an immense amount of calories — much of them from empty or sugary carbs — while using our bodies about 90% less than in previous eras due to a sedentary lifestyle. So, more calories in + fewer calories out = fat storage. Is it any wonder […]
Year round Christmas tree
About ten years ago, when I was a very poor single mom, I had no money to buy a Christmas tree one year. At the time it felt like a bummer. My solution was to tape two pieces of roll out white paper together and paint a tree on it. I added painted lights, ornaments […]
