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11 Creative Gift Baskets for the Season: Moms and Dads, Newlyweds, and More

May 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Do It Yourself, Tips

Christmas may be the most intense gift-giving season for most people, but summertime generally has its fair share of reasons to buy gifts: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, graduations, First Communions, bridal showers and weddings, and the random baby shower here and there. When it comes to homemade gifts, I kind of outed myself in this [...]

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Homemade Hard Lotion: A Tale of a Distracted DIY Mom {GUEST POST}

May 1st, 2013 · 24 Comments · Do It Yourself

This is a guest post by my friend-in-real-life, Laurie. She and I met and connected because we both had babes in slings at our sons’ Valentine’s Day Party one year, and we quickly discovered that real food, natural parenting, and Christianity were more than enough to form a strong bond. (I love it when God [...]

DIY Organic Beauty Recipes {Review} & Recipe for Homemade Tallow Balm

April 18th, 2013 · 17 Comments · Do It Yourself, Green Living

I have never made homemade lotion, nor have I ever even had the desire to, until this week. I did not relish the mess, the finding of ingredients, and the probability of failure (if you’ve read KS very long, you’ve seen some of my epic fails, yes?). About the only homemade personal product I’d ever [...]

Have You Ever Successfully made a Homemade Dishwasher Detergent Recipe?

April 11th, 2013 · 33 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself

I haven’t. Being honest right up front there. I had many, many failures using natural DIY dishwasher soap a few years ago, and I’m afraid my husband will never set foot in the kitchen again if I even breathe a word of more homemade dishwasher detergent experimenting, and that would leave me with a LOT [...]

Springtime is Green Time…What to do with Too Much of a Good Thing {Eat Well, Spend Less}

March 18th, 2013 · 16 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Do It Yourself, Frugality, Organic Gardening

“Mom, is this a stick in my soup?” I admit that we eat some weird food around here, but I really wasn’t serving a soup quite that rustic (on purpose). I just got busted on a little corner cutting, but I’ll let you learn from my mistake. As the weather turns from frigid to simply [...]

How I Make Water Kefir, One Year Later {Video}

February 2nd, 2013 · 34 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes

I can’t believe I’ve been making water kefir for over three years already. That’s a long time! I’ve changed my method a couple times, and after I posted the how-to video for water kefir last winter, I got some new advice and quite quickly changed my method again. (My water kefir grains are from Cultures [...]

What’s the Easiest Fermented Food to Make?

February 1st, 2013 · 39 Comments · Do It Yourself

The focus this week is on fermentation and the Monday mission was to make yogurt – a great baby step for those who are new to the real food journey (just don’t heat up your milk and walk away for too long… YIKES!) Despite the reassurances from Katie, myself, and the many readers who have [...]