When I was in high school I made a large percentage of my own clothes.  I even started out as a Clothing and Textiles major in college.  I have always been thankful that I had basic cooking and sewing skills so that I could stretch our family budget by cooking from scratch, mending and repairing [...]

My daughter had two baby showers this week-end while she is visiting Colorado.  She received two copies of the popular children’s book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. It reminded me of this fun little ditty written a few years ago.  Maybe you can identify.  Read [...]

Last week I told you about the CSA, The Living Farm I have joined this year.

This week they sent us pictures of all the lambs born in the last week on the farm and they are sponsoring a naming contest.  These pictures alone make me want to start raising lambs just so I can hold [...]

Lets face it, with the current economic conditions many of us are having more difficulty making the money we have cover all of our expenses. The good news is that there are hundreds of ways that you can reduce the strain on your budget and save money so you can keep more of [...]

When we were in the market for a new house seven and a half years ago, there were two things we were looking for:  a shop to conduct The Urban Homemaker Business in and a great kitchen.  Here is a picture of my existing kitchen:

We got the great shop to run [...]

Are you prepared for an emergency? After the East Coast was blasted with back to back snow storms/blizzards last month, many people were caught unprepared.  Grocery stores emptied out of bottled water and other essentials quickly.

Or consider the recent earthquake in Chili.  Newspaper headlines pointed out the stores were looted and water was the first [...]

A couple years ago I promoted a baking contest called Bake and Take Day sponsored by many state wheat organizations. Baking, I have found, can be a fun and inexpensive means of treating people in a special way.

Bake and Take Day, celebrated annually on the fourth Saturday in March (this year will [...]

Safe Spring Cleaning uses just water and Microfiber! You may not love cleaning, but environmentally safe products make the job so much easier and you can even involve your youngest chidren.

Enviro Cloth – Use on windows, textured, and dark colored kitchen appliances, spot clean upholstery and carpet, lamps, plants, computers, stainless steel, walls, white boards, [...]