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Let’s take a walk down memory lane back to the days when we were all hoarding toilet paper like our lives depended on it. If you’re feeling a little stir crazy these days, bust out any toilet paper rolls you have lying around your house and get crafting. From Star Wars characters to bird feeders and even flying fish, the possibilities are endless when you’ve got a stash of toilet paper rolls on hand! photo: The Clumsy Crafter Toilet Paper Roll Snake This adorable little craft will have kids creating their own snake out of multiple toilet paper rolls. After...

There’s this one show I’m obsessed with right now called 20 Below. The hosts are a Canadian couple, Anette and Steve, who go to people’s houses and the wife Anette throws out most of their stuff and the husband Steve talks to them about how it’s okay to love themselves and hate their fathers. The stuff that gets thrown out goes to Goodwill or the dump, you don’t see that part, and you don’t see the fathers either, but the mothers are usually there, often crying, saying how grateful they are. By the end of the episode, the person has...

Here’s my big list of things I want to accomplish in 2022: Remodel The Kitchen We are still on the hunt for just the right pantry solution for the side wall in the kitchen, but I think we’re getting closer. I like this one, but where the food processer is, there would be a microwave, and a spot for the HH’s coffee maker.  We’re nearly there though, so I’m excited about that.  I’ll try and take some kitchen pictures today so you can help me with some ideas.   Sell Enough Rugs to Buy an AGA Stove {$2,864.60 of $22,000...

Last night I pulled out my bin of seeds for this year’s vegetable garden and set the onions, leeks and artichokes aside. A nice little snow storm is in the forecast for tomorrow so I think I’ll wait until then to hook up the grow lights in the basement and get the seeds planted. Now that we have a little more furniture in the house than we did last time this year, I won’t be setting up the long folding table in the family room and filling it with plant starts this year {and my husband is pretty happy about...

Henry Firth and Ian Theasby are fast becoming the kings of vegan cooking.  The lifelong friends – better known by their brand name, BOSH! – made history in 2020 with the first ever vegan cookbook to reach number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers chart.  The Sheffield lads have since excited more than half a billion people with their plant-based recipes and now, they’re back with a new book aimed at rebranding veganism. BOSH! on a Budget contains more than 80 thrifty recipes designed with affordability in mind. There’s a misconception that veganism is expensive, say the authors, when in...