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Enjoy Your Home During Advent

Advent is my favorite time of the year. It’s not because I am particularly religious. I just like anticipation, coziness, and snow. I’m also a fan of warm food. Having family around is good too. For a few years, I started to dislike advent. Sure, I would plan all year to buy my Christmas gifts before the end of November, since I really don’t like going to stores when it is busy. But that is not why I disliked the season. I disliked it because even though coziness, family, and warm food are supposed to be a part of the … Continue reading →

Creative Gifts for Artistic Home Learners

I love creating kits for the holidays. A themed gift can be much more interesting and less expensive than other gifts because it all works together. If you or someone you know has a craft-oriented home learner, here are some gift ideas and some ways to work them into your home learning. Everyone loves clay. It’s natural and feels good on the hands. Buy natural clay and get rollers for it. These can be as simple as dowels from the hardware store. You can also give younger home learners the materials to make homemade clay, like baking soda and cornstarch. … Continue reading →

Tips and Tricks for Quick Organization

Organizing our homes and our lives may seem like a never-ending battle, but I prefer to think of it as a work in progress. I learn new things all the time that help make life simpler, and of course, more organized. Here are some tips and tricks I’ve come across recently, as well as some tried and true methods that may simply serve as reminders: Containers Okay, so using containers is not some “light bulb moment” discovery when it comes to organization. However, which containers you choose and how they are used can have an impact. Caddies are great, and … Continue reading →

Crafty? Sell Your Goods on Etsy.com

This popular website is gaining visitors every day. And if you are crafty, you can sell your items online, without the hassle of opening up your own web store. If you can knit, sew, paint wood, carve, make greeting cards, make candles, make jewelry, or any other handicraft, you’ll want to check out Esty.com. It is an easy way to showcase your items, sell them online and even take new orders. There are all sorts of categories from crafts, from clothing to home decor to personal items. You can post a photo and description, and the web site will even … Continue reading →

Make Reusable Shopping Bags

Are you ready to see just how easy it is to make your own reusable shopping bags (while recycling clothing and other items at the same time)? It only requires a little sewing and it’s nearly all straight lines. If you don’t sew, you may be able to ask someone to teach you how or to stitch up some bags for you. Reusable Shopping Bags from Linens Do you still have a few bath towels left from when one of your bathrooms was a different color? Many of us do because towels are just something most people don’t get rid … Continue reading →

33 Things to Make for Money

If you are looking to earn some cash for the little extras in life, why not start a frugal holiday business? A frugal holiday business is a lot less pressure than a regular home business. With this type of home business, you produce a hand crafted product and sell it only when you want to make a little extra cash. These products are generally pretty frugal to produce with no major investment. You can make just a few items when you have time, or produce a whole bunch to sell. It all depends on how much you want to do. … Continue reading →

Loom Knitting – Fun For All Ages

I picked up the Knifty Knitter looms on a whim about a year ago. The pack of four were on sale for about seven dollars. Many years ago, I had a long loom called a Knitting Jenny. As a girl, I never did learn how to cast on and off the loom but I loved to knit on it. With regular needles I always had gaps and holes and loose threads. I�ve taught a couple of children to knit on these looms. The knitting looms make knitting very easy. All you really need to do is to wrap your yarn … Continue reading →

Best Buys for July

Do you know what you should be shopping for during the month of July? Certain items go on sale or deep discounts during this month. Take a look at what is available. It might be worth making your purchases now, rather than spending more for them later. And saving is, of course, always frugal. Here is a list of the best buys for July. Although many of us put off our crafts until the fall or winter when we are indoors more often and seem to have more time for them, July is actually the best time to stock up … Continue reading →

Project Puppy Love

With the cold weather upon us, you can warm your pups AND your heart with Project Puppy Love. I recently got the chance to pick coat designer Holly Glover’s brain about Project Puppy Love. Aimee: How did Project Puppy Love get started? What inspired you? Who got your first coats? Holly: PPL started after I made coats for my own dogs. My dogs are definitely members of the family and, like our cats, are spoiled. I decided they needed winter coats because their fur is so short that they get cold easily. Everything I saw in stores and online was … Continue reading →

Flax Seed Oil for Carpal Tunnel

Aimee Amodio has written some fabulous blogs about carpal tunnel here on Familes.com. I include her links at the bottom of this article. I would like to share with you my own experiences with this condition and the ways I have found to control it in my life. However, you need to do what feels best to you in your circumstances; if you feel you need to be treated with more intervention, you follow that feeling. The summer I was seventeen, I did a lot of crochet, cross-stitch, and typing. As the season progressed, I noticed that my forearms were … Continue reading →