Author: miranda
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Preserve Nature’s Beauty: A Guide to Drying Flowers and Understanding Its Benefits
Flowers can be dried and used in many different things. Salves, Soaps, or even making teas and adding to bath salts or bath bombs. Many people will think about drying flowers as something hard and time consuming, but in reality, while it is time consuming, hard it is not. There are different types of ways…
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Irish Soda Bread
One of the first traditions I started when I got married is making Irish Soda Bread for St. Patricks’ Day. I remember finding the recipe on Pinterest first, and the first year I made it I also made homemade butter with it. Normally, I always loose the normal Soda bread recipe I used, and scramble…
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Vito Turns 6!
This last week my Rainbow baby turned 6. He’s been in the world just as long as it took to conceive him. After my daughter was born, we discovered I had PCOS when my husband and I were trying for a baby with absolutely no luck. It also helped make since of a lot of…
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Homemade Applesauce
The thought of making applesauce from scratch I still remember was overwhelming. Until a friend of mine told me “Just think of it like making Mashed potatoes!” and then suddenly the thought wasn’t so scary. I never even thought about making applesauce from scratch until I had a constant supply of apples thanks to the…
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basic blanket repair
When Daniel and I first started living together, we stayed in a room that was basically the size of a small office cubicle. The inside wasn’t insulated, so we had a small heater we used for warmth, and we also had this very warm blue checkered blanket. You know how babies have a special blanket?…
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soda Can Cake
Ever want a cake but never have the eggs or oil? Yeah. Same. End of the month is usually kind of difficult in my house. But I’ve also gotten into the habit of picking up the cheap cake mixes whenever they’re on sale. So there’s many times I have a cake mix, but if its…
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Homemade Citrus Cleaner
Vinegar. Its probably one of if not the most natural cleaner you can use. Personally? I have a spray bottle that I have with part white vinegar, part dawn platinum soap, and the rest water. But no matter what, it always has that strong vinegar smell when you spray it, and for some that vinegar…
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DIY Scrub
I’m not normally the type of person who is eager to make these DIY beauty hacks, and things. But a coworker was educating me on the benefits of a sugar scrub, and that sat in the back of my mind for a good few weeks until one stormy day I decided it was time to…
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Round Table Ranch Saga
When I first met Daniel, he said he hated ranch. For my sheltered self, that sounded insane! Who in their right mind hates ranch? So, me being the awesome girlfriend I was at the time, coaxed him into trying ranch at a place who knows how to make ranch. Round Table Pizza. Anytime I go…
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Food Storage
A while back my husband and I decided that we needed to clear out space in what we call our mudroom, that we have turned into our pantry. Our kitchen is on the smaller side, so it made since to us since otherwise the mudroom wasn’t going to get all that much traffic. 3 Harbor…