This weekend, my daughter played with one of her classmates and liked the tie-dye shirt he was wearing. She asked if she could buy one and I explained that it's even better to make your own, so guess what we ended up doing on Sunday morning? The stores here don't carry Rit Dye, which was the one ...
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Witchy Favorites
When you're on a path for a number of years, it's easy to accumulate favorites - things you'd never want to do without. Here are just a few of my favorite witchy things. The first item is one that remains both useful and nostalgic and that is Good Magic by Marina Medici. This is among the first of ...
Baking Crackers
Now that school is in full swing, I've decided that every Monday is a baking day. There was a recipe for Basic Farmhouse Crackers n the June-July 2018 issue of Mary Jane's Farm Magazine (also previously published in their October-November 2009 issue). I just love, love, love this magazine. When ...
Enough for Me
I don't have it all and being among other moms kind of drives that point home for me. Today, especially, I felt the weight of judgment that's probably just a figment of my imagination. It all started Friday night, spending time with people I'm aware are far better off than I am. Actually, it ...
Pickles & Breadcrumbs
No, pickles and bread crumbs don't go together... unless you're making them! Last week, we did our first canning of the season. Year after year, we enjoy a bountiful cucumber harvest. The right ones go into pickles. Which cucumbers are best for pickles? You want the smaller cukes, the ones with ...
DNA Testing: Caveats
Family Tree DNA first began offering direct-to-consumer genetic testing in 2000. After years of reading articles about the success people had with DNA testing for genealogy, I took my first test in 2006. Only a year later in 2007, 23andMe joined the party, and now everyone is doing it. Yet, not ...