During March and April I'm doing the 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge. Throughout the challenge, I'm also trying to create more orderly ...

This week the photography theme was "Something Beginning with L." As I looked back on photos I had taken, I came across quite a ...

In an effort to gradually move away from products that have lots of chemicals in them, I found instructions about how to make your own hand ...

This week I read  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  by Douglas Adams for the  Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks  challenge. The 216-page boo...

I've been wanting to try this homemade facial cleanser for awhile now after seeing a pin for it that led to Green Boot Living . In...

Over the past couple of days I've been trying to organize areas in the home that seem to be challenging to keep in order. After lookin...

Each month this year I am having Sophia and Olivia do a different monthly journal. There are so many interesting formats and ideas to record...

This week I read The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing by Margaret O. Killinger for the  Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks  challenge. I was hoping to r...

For the twelfth LEGO Quest challenge, the focus is on mixed media. Mixed media means to combine one or more other objects or art mediums wi...

Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was an American songwriter prim...

Sara Teasdale, who was born on August 8, 1884, in St. Louis, Missouri, had such poor health during her childhood that it was only at age 14 ...

We had the opportunity to visit Poplar Hill Dairy Goat Farm with the 4-H club in which Sophia and Olivia are members. Although we were hopi...

This week I read Gathering Blue  by Lois Lowry   for the  Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks  challenge. Many years ago I read Lowry's book The G...

We're in the middle of a reconstruction project because of an ice dam. Much of my time recently has been spent packaging up items and pu...

For this week's theme of P52 and the 52 Week Photo Challenge, the theme is "Looking Up." At first I was thinking literally: t...