Over the past month, I’ve been working to reduce and repurpose when I can. One thing I’ve been making a lot of over the past few weeks are dishcloths. I’ve been doing my best to do my small part for the environment; reducing trash and reusing items when I can. I have a huge stack …
Easy Homemade Bread Crumbs
If your kids and household are anything like mine, you probably have a bunch of stale food lying around your kitchen. Bread that was left unwrapped overnight that’s turned hard; the chocolate donuts they had to buy, only to realize that they only wanted one or two, and now the rest have been sitting on …
A Year of Classics
When I was little, my grandfather used to read my sister and I picture books. We would cuddle up on either side of him, with a stack of books clasped in our arms and he would dutifully go through the entire stack, one book after another, giving all the characters their own voices and teaching …
Round the Spinning Wheel
One of my newest hobbies, something I’ve wanted to learn to do for the longest time, is spinning wool into yarn on a spinning wheel. I’ve always been fascinated by the history of these wheels, and it’s amazing to look back and know that except for perhaps the past 100 years, almost all fabric has …