My Simple Walk

As we are preparing for Hubby to start dialysis, I’m moving furniture around, rearranging, and cleaning out. Today I moved my Great Grandmother’s wardrobe and cleaned off the top. It’s a beautiful vintage piece, but has some damage from age. I wanted to give the wood a good polish that would remove the dust and… more

WE HAVE TEAMED UP WITH COUPONING4YOU AND A BUNCH OF OTHER AMAZING PAGE OWNERS TO BRING YOU A 4 DAY FLASH GIVEAWAY FOR A KINDLE FIRE. THIS GIVEAWAY WILL RUN FROM MAY 15TH 12:01 AM EASTERN TIME AND CLOSE MAY 19TH 11:59 EASTERN TIME. SO MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR ENTRIES IN THIS GIVEAWAY WILL BE GONE… more

I don’t get nearly as much time as I would like to sew, but I love to look at patterns and fabric! Here are some new ones that I think are great and hope to make one day. Captain Jack Sparrow – This one is amazing and free! It is a paper pieced pattern. Don’t… more

A friend lent me one of her Life of Fred books to try with my daughter. I created this worksheet to go with one of the lessons and thought I would share it The worksheet is a mix of problems, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, for finding the value of “x”. Find the Value of… more

The winner has been emailed, so please make sure you all check your email! Thank you to everyone that entered! If you are not the winner, you can still order your SmartKlean laundry ball and get free shipping! We still use ours with every single load of laundry. It really is amazing and saves us… more

I truly believe I learn something new every day and today I learned about Cob Houses and EarthBag Houses. While looking into EarthBag houses, I found a post about Cob Houses. If you visit the Natural Building Blog here, you can download a copy of Becky Bee’s Cob Builder’s Handbook for free! Picture courtesy of… more

About 4 years ago I created a flower garden in my front yard. We also took out bushes and created a second garden out front under the bay window. Last year I did some cleaning out and put in new mulch at the end of the growing season. Both gardens are already growing like crazy.… more

I have been using this shampoo for about a month now. I found the recipe on Frugally Sustainable. However, mine has one missing ingredient. You see, when I first saw this recipe I got excited, went out and purchased all supplies, and then didn’t find time to do it. The beautiful brick of local beeswax… more

Today has been proclaimed the National Day of Prayer for 2012 by our President. I wanted to give all my readers an opportunity to share their prayer request, so that I may pray for your intention. Please leave a comment or simply send me an email. more

I say a prayer for all the spouses, children, parents, girlfriends, boyfriends, friends, and anyone who provides care for a person with a chronic illness. You never really understand until you are there, walking that path how hard it can all be. How overwhelming, stressful, and emotional it can all be. To watch someone you… more

I know I promised you pictures of my curtains, but they didn’t come out like I pictured in my head, so I’m not showing anyone…. ever. So instead I thought I would share with you some pictures of my garden. We have 3 raised garden beds in place and plans for 3 more this week.… more

Today was a busy day. We had a yard sale last weekend and today I finally made it to the thrift shop to donate everything that didn’t sell. It was actually quite painless, I drove up to the drop off point, unloaded the van and a nice gentleman came out to help me take it… more

Imagine, doing laundry without chemicals, without fragrances, and with an earth friendly cleaner…. well you don’t have to imagine it, because it already exists. The SmartKlean laundry ball is amazing! We have been using it for several weeks now and I couldn’t imagine going back to any type of detergent. How much do you think… more

Ok me and my crazy ideas today While driving to a local farm (takes me about 30 minutes or so to drive there, one way) I was looking at all the farms and thinking about how much I want a simple life where I provide almost everything for my family. A simple home, with solar… more

It’s Earth Day! Many stores are offering giveaways and promotions to celebrate Earth Day. I would like to share a cross stitch pattern that I designed a few years ago. You can download the pattern in PDF here. It isn’t required, but I would love to hear how you are going to use the pattern,… more

Did you know that most deodorants contain Parabens, Aluminum, and Propylene Glycol? The one that concerns me at this point in my life is Aluminum. Aluminum is a heavy metal that can pose health risks to anyone using it, but particularly it is a risk for end stage kidney failure patients. Since this is where… more

Our 10 days of cleaning out the house is over and I wish I could say we are done, but we aren’t. We made huge progress though. The first two days hubby worked in the basement. He cleared out a huge amount of trash (it was once treasure, but sadly mold got to it) and… more

Tonight, while chatting with a good friend, I had a moment where the reasons for my downsizing came through loud and clear. Recently I have gotten away from my original goals. I have been wrapped up in traffic numbers, giveaways, and Facebook stats. This was not my original purpose at all of this blog. It… more

Please don’t be jealous of my awesomeness, you too can have the perfect filing system. When most people married (and I’m completely assuming here) they buy or receive a filing cabinet. The wife dutifully labels each file in preparation of all the papers that will undoubtably come into the home during the life of the… more

The next 10 days you won’t be seeing much of me. Tomorrow, Good Friday, we are starting the great 10 day clean out event. Monday we went to a dialysis class for Hubby and it was quite depressing. But life must go on and we must prepare. So starting tomorrow, from top to bottom we… more