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  • Cooking

    Beautiful + Functional Raised Garden Beds

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    There are plen­ty of rea­sons to choose raised gar­den beds over tra­di­tion­al plant­i­ng. They are eas­i­er to weed and main­tain, plus they make gar­den­ing look orga­nized and beau­ti­ful. This year, like years before, we are chos­ing to raise our beds bly.ut I am approach­ing things a bit different This year I am excit­ed to have my own kitchen gar­den which will con­sist of a 14x14’ space and four 3x5’ beds. Even­tu­al­ly I have dreams of a white pick­et perime­ter fence with an arched entry­way. Com­plete with riv­er rock, an assort­ment of pot­ted herbs and flow­ers around the perime­ter. Yes I…

  • DIY Projects

    How to Make Wood Conditioner with Beeswax

    1:31 AM - By 

    I have a love for using wood­en uten­sils in my kitchen. Wood bowls, wood cut­ting boards, rolling pins… you name it. And while yes they are pret­ty to look at, and work well with just about any type of cook­ware, they do require a lit­tle bit of main­te­nence. What’s the solu­tion? An easy-to-make home­made wood con­di­tion­er using beeswax or as I like to call it…Wood Butter! Wood gets thirsty. And when it is thirsty it has a ten­dan­cy to dry out, become rough and even­tu­al­ly crack and splin­ter. This is true across the spec­trum. When wood weath­ers it cracks, it…

  • Do It Yourself

    2:28 PM - By 

    Learn the art of sim­ple DIY projects, farm­house decor and home reme­dies. Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty learn­ing to make and bring the joy of sim­ple, old fash­ioned, DIY liv­ing to your home.

  • Cooking

    Mama’s Old Fashioned Corn Bread

    2:36 AM - By 

    This is a fam­i­ly recipe hand­ed down from my great grand­moth­er, known as Memaw. She died not long after I was born in 1993 but her cook­ing style and recipes have been passed down through the gen­er­a­tion and now I am shar­ing with you. I have nev­er seen this par­tic­u­lar recipe writ­ten down on paper and it has been made for years only by mem­o­ry. These are usu­al­ly the best ones, amiright? THERE IS PLENTY MORE WHERE THIS CAME FROM GRAB MY FAVORITE SOUTHERN SWEET TEA RECIPE HERE! PS…IT GOES GREAT WITH CORNBREAD.  I hope you enjoy this whole­some, old…

  • Decor

    Homestead Kitchen Essentials from Amazon

    3:53 AM - By 

    What I love the most about DIY is it tru­ly can become a way of life. There are ways to incor­po­rate do it your self projects in every space in your home and this is a lifestyle that the ear­li­er gen­er­a­tions knew all to well.  There is both a chal­lenge and ful­fill­ment in doing things your­self and I think a small part of each of us would like to revis­it those old fash­ioned ways for a moment. Break in your new kitchen uten­sils with this mouth water­ing MAPLE BANANA BREAD made from scratch. No starter needed! With that in mind, I…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    Patriotic Wood Block Decor

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    There is noth­ing much more prim­i­tive than chunky wood block decor. I have always been drawn to the prim­itve patri­ot­ic look. Not only are they cute but these blocks are about as easy as it gets. Sup­plies 2x4 blocks cut as fol­lows (7″, 5″, 5″, 4″, 3.5″) PURCHASE PRECUT SET HERE stain book pages or craft paper  mod modge paint sten­cils Start by stain­ing your wood. I am using my own DIY STAIN, and allow to cry to the touch. This par­tic­u­lar stain is much thin­ner than a retail stain and drys quick­ly. My favoite part about this stian is the aged look…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    Easy Wood Block Flag Banner

    12:35 PM - By 

    This project was inspired by THIS ONE I made last year. I decid­ed to try my hand at cre­at­ing some­thing with a more prim­i­tive look. Prim­i­tive and clas­sic has always been my favorite theme for sum­mer hol­i­days. There just seems to be a lot of nos­tal­gia dur­ing the warmer months.  Prim­i­tives usu­al­ly have dark­er shades of col­or with a nice rus­tic feel to them and that is what I want­ed to make sure I cap­tured with this lit­tle ban­ner. Keep in mind you could use scrap wood or even pal­lent wood to cre­ate this look too. Or if that isn’t…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    Easy Wood Block American Flag

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    I have always want­ed to dec­o­rate for patri­ot­ic hol­i­days and this year I am get­ting a head start on mak­ing some cute lit­tle addi­tions for my decor. The prim­i­tive look wears well with red, white and blue and what bet­ter way to get that rus­tic look than with wood blocks. These are the sizes we start­ed with.  (2) 10″ 2x4s (2) 6″ 2x4s (2) 4″ 2x4s I paint­ed one 10″ piece and one 6″ piece in red and cov­ered the oth­er two with mod podge and old book pages. The 4″ pieces I paint­ed blue.  Since I was going for a prim­i­tive look I want­ed…

  • Decor

    How to Clean and Season Cast Iron

    9:54 PM - By 

    Good ole cast iron. There real­ly is no oth­er way to cook and sea­son your food the old fash­ioned way. Grow­ing up I remem­ber mom say­ing the same thing. She had a col­lec­tion of cast iron from all over, and she still has my Grannie’s from years and years ago. I remem­ber cook­ing over an open fire while camp­ing. Home­made bis­cuits, in the cast iron, sausage, bacon, you name it.  It was­n’t until I start­ed cook­ing for my own fam­i­ly and using cast iron on the dai­ly, and crack­ing a beau­ti­ful Lodge skil­let, that I tru­ly under­stood the impor­tance of clean­ing…

  • DIY Projects

    How to Season Wooden Spoons

    2:50 AM - By 

    Sea­son­ing wood is odd­ly sat­is­fy­ing to me.…I love see­ing the life come back in to the grains. With­out the oils, the woods tends to dry, crack and even­tu­al­ly break so it’s impor­tant to care for them prop­er­ly. I love the idea of keep­ing these around to pass down so keep­ing them nice and oiled is important. I use the same min­er­al oil/natural wax on all my kitchen woods. It’s nice and creamy with­out leav­ing a greasy feel to the touch. This will help them last longer and per­form bet­ter in the long run. Flax seed oil and olive oil will…