Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Homestead Blog Hop will take place every Wednesday and is for all things homesteading: real food recipes, farm animals, crafts, DIY, how-to’s, gardening, anything from-scratch, natural home/health, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, natural remedies, essential oils, & more! Basically anything related to homesteading. Meet Your Hosts! Follow Their Blogs Natasha – Houseful...
Every year, I like to put together a list of fun DIY projects for handmade Christmas gifts. This year I have 21 ideas for you to work with; ideas for beauty and body gifts, crafts like car fresheners, food (yes, they can be made ahead wonderfully), and even health gifts like elderberry syrup, herbal blends...
Christmas, Mother’s Day, Birthdays, Father’s Day, there are so many occasions where a handmade, last minute DIY gift is the perfect idea. I know how hard being a mom can be sometimes. Having certain ingredients on hand can make things a lot easier. I keep a variety of bath and beauty ingredients because I like...
I apparently love tinkering with my deodorant recipes. This homemade clay deodorant recipe had to go through many tests in order to make it glide nicely, work wonderfully, and also not be a melting mess. My coconut oil and baking soda deodorant recipe is easy, frugal, and fun because you get to add the scents...
I get a lot of questions about creating soap and shampoo bar recipes. One of the questions I get the most is about superfat content; what’s the best superfat percentage for soap body bars, face bars, or shampoo bars and why? I’m sure there are a lot of strong opinions about the best percentages to...
This is coming out a little before Thanksgiving. Before you get upset with me and tell me that I’m rushing the seasons, understand that I’ve already thought of that. The reason I’m bring up handmade Christmas decorations now, is that a lot of people get together with family for Thanksgiving. It’s actually a great time...
My Thanksgiving recipes and Fall Decorations Roundup was such a huge success that I wanted to do it all over again for the Holidays and share a collection of homemade gifts and holiday DIY! I have a ridiculous amount of tutorials and recipes for making homemade gifts for the holidays, birthdays, Mother’s and Father’s Day...
Save this to make at Thanksgiving or other family gatherings! Vintage Christmas ornaments can be very special, and a great way to express your personal experiences and personality. I put together an article a few years ago on Old Fashioned Christmas ornaments. The old fashioned method of using dried orange rings, homemade dolls, grass woven...
I’m very excited to be able to share with you this year’s holiday soap recipes. Like my Fall soap recipes, I’ve put together Holiday and Christmas soap recipes each year for a while. These are part of the Frugal & Healthy DIY Holidays event. I’ve been brainstorming and have come up with 4 new recipes...
There are a number of reasons to hand mill soap. The biggest reason people hand mill soap is to fix botched soap and other soaping problems. Sometimes you forget to add enough water, enough oil, or add too much lye. If you know what you did (and sometimes if you’re not quite sure) you can...
For the past few years, I’ve put together Fall soap recipes and Christmas soap recipes. I have to tell you, after putting together around 15 Fall soap recipes I had to sit and think for a while to create something new. After all, I will not use fragrance oils to make toxic scents. Even with...
I’m a summer girl. I’ll outright admit that. Anyone who knows me well also knows that Kelly and cold don’t do well together. But I have definitely come to love Fall. These DIY Fall Decorations add to the fun of the changing of the seasons and are easy and frugal. These decorating ideas, plus many...
Handmade Salt Soap is a fun, exfoliating, hard soap bar that is great for the skin and body. I’ve included 6 Handmade Salt Soap Recipes so you can choose which one fits your needs. (Note that salt soaps will not dry out your skin! See 8 Reasons Salt Soap Bars are Fabulous for the Skin...
Most people I know are trying to be creative with their gifts, and there are a number of reasons for this: wanting to be frugal, the enjoyment that comes from being creative and making things with your own hands, the special touch that a handmade or even partially DIY gift can bring to the occasion....
Whether you home school, private school, or government school your kids, there are lots of fun ways to stay organized and healthy. My kids and I put together these Natural Back to School DIYs, because they thought they were fun and something they’d like to do to help them get organized, or I thought it...
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