When I was in high school I made a large percentage of my own clothes. I even started out as a Clothing and Textiles major in college. I have always been thankful that I had basic cooking and sewing skills so that I could stretch our family budget by cooking from scratch, mending and repairing […]
Archives for March 2010
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
March 21, 2010 by · 3 Comments
My daughter had two baby showers this week-end while she is visiting Colorado. She received two copies of the popular children’s book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. It reminded me of this fun little ditty written a few years ago. Maybe you can identify. Read on: If you give […]
Help Name the Lamb Babies
March 19, 2010 by · 1 Comment
Last week I told you about the CSA, The Living Farm I have joined this year. This week they sent us pictures of all the lambs born in the last week on the farm and they are sponsoring a naming contest. These pictures alone make me want to start raising lambs just so I can […]
Kitchen Remodeling Plans- Part Two
March 18, 2010 by · 11 Comments
The above picture is a rendering of my proposed kitchen remodel floor plan with window seats. The most exciting development in the last week is that a Paonia, Colorado customer has asked if she could have my old cabinets and help with the demolition project. She came over, made measurements, took pictures, went home and […]
Grocery Shopping On A Budget eCourse
March 16, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Lets face it, with the current economic conditions many of us are having more difficulty making the money we have cover all of our expenses. The good news is that there are hundreds of ways that you can reduce the strain on your budget and save money so you can keep more of that money […]
The Living Farm – Joining a CSA
March 13, 2010 by · 1 Comment
Thursday, my assistant Renee and I received our first newsletter from The Living Farm CSA in Paonia, Colorado (Community Sustained Agriculture) we have just joined. Although I dream of a fabulous garden in the five large raised beds Duane built, the reality is, my gardening skills have yet to yield enough produce for Mary and […]
Spring is in the Air, Time to Remodel my Kitchen
March 11, 2010 by · 13 Comments
When we were in the market for a new house seven and a half years ago, there were two things we were looking for: a shop to conduct The Urban Homemaker Business in and a great kitchen. Here is a picture of my existing kitchen: We got the great shop to run The Urban Homemaker […]
Are You Prepared for an Emergency?
March 4, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Are you prepared for an emergency? After the East Coast was blasted with back to back snow storms/blizzards last month, many people were caught unprepared. Grocery stores emptied out of bottled water and other essentials quickly. Or consider the recent earthquake in Chili. Newspaper headlines pointed out the stores were looted and water was the […]
Sharing the Gift of Bread
March 3, 2010 by · 2 Comments
A couple years ago I promoted a baking contest called Bake and Take Day sponsored by many state wheat organizations. Baking, I have found, can be a fun and inexpensive means of treating people in a special way. Bake and Take Day, celebrated annually on the fourth Saturday in March (this year will be the […]
Spring Cleaning- The Easy, Speedy, Breezy Way
March 2, 2010 by · 3 Comments
Safe Spring Cleaning uses just water and Microfiber! You may not love cleaning, but environmentally safe products make the job so much easier and you can even involve your youngest chidren. Enviro Cloth – Use on windows, textured, and dark colored kitchen appliances, spot clean upholstery and carpet, lamps, plants, computers, stainless steel, walls, white […]