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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Make Your Own Furniture!
I love to sew. It saves money, provides a creative outlet, and I can make money in my own home. Sewing a dress for myself saves about $40. But Ana White figured out that making her own headboard saved her about $2,000! My dress took 8 hours to sew. Her headboard? About 3.
She became so good [...]
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Need a Sewing Room?
Wherever we live, I need a sewing room , a place to cut out fabric and leave my machine up all the time. It should be a place out of the direct path of traffic, since I am a bit of a mess. A lot of my sewing students just don't have an extra room to [...]
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Avocados Everywhere!
I am so blessed! My mother in law brought me 50 Avocados today and she is coming back with that many more again. The food pantry in her small town had too many to use and are sharing with us. I did a little research on the internet and found that they freeze well if [...]
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Closet Curtains
My 2 daughters share a closet with sliding doors. It's impossible for both of them to reach their things at the same time and the doors often come off the track causing a safety problem. I've been dreaming of taking off the doors for awhile. There isn't enough room for bi-fold doors or pocket doors, [...]
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Perpetual Breakfast: Nutritious and Delicious
Have you heard of the benefits of soaking wheat in cultured dairy products? It helps make it more digestable and greatly increases the absorptability of the nutritients. This sounds all scientific, but the best part is soaking wheat means breakfast is already made!
This idea can be adapted to make perpetual pancake and waffle batter and [...]
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Win a free Janome sewing machine or embroidery machine!
DIY Dish has just launched their new online television show. The first project features a cute no sew (or little sew) cake pincushion. You can watch it right here and then visit their blog to enter the giveaways for a free Janome embroidery machine and pincushion patterns and kits from my favorite designer, Heather Bailey.
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Introducing the Jillian Tunic Pattern
She's finally here and ready for shipping! The Jillian Tunic pattern by my sister company, Blessed Designs was designed for American Hand Smocking and cut for maternity. After hearing the demands of my customers, I added a non-maternity cut and 2 options for machine smocking. The results are beautiful and easy to wear. You [...]
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Ginger Bath–Soothing and Healing
I've been giving my children ginger baths for many years to relieve discomfort from flu, congestion, and colds. I didn't know why it worked, just that it did. I recently came across an interesting article on why ginger baths are so theraputic.
http://www.pureinsideout.com/ginger-bath.html
Ginger baths are easy to give. Simply sprinkle 2 Tablespoons of dried ginger into running [...]
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Garlic Cheese Biscuits–Ward off Spring Illness
The children are not feeling well. Brandon slept all day yesterday and Heidi is the snoozer today. They have been well exposed to strep throat so I am watching them closely and staying home. I like to fight these things off naturally if at all possible. It helps to strengthen their immune systems and prevent [...]
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