No spend 2025 has me looking to use things I already have instead of jumping online to order supplies. I dug through my supplies and mixed this up for a quick fave mask. This mask comes together in seconds and is great for your skin. There are only three ingredients hibiscus powder, honey and milk.Continue reading “Hibiscus Honey Face Mask”
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Sunday Night Skincare
Sundays are my day. I look forward to them even though Monday is lurking right around the corner. I prep what I need for the week. I hang out with my mom. I watch a little TV and plan for the week. Sunday is also my day to pamper my skin with a nice faceContinue reading “Sunday Night Skincare”
Early Spring Planting: My February Tomatoes
What to plant in February? For me I am getting my first round of tomatoes started. I know it sounds too early, but trust me, it is worth the extra time and effort. By starting the seeds in February I can have tomatoes by June in New England. I go with the earlier varieties likeContinue reading “Early Spring Planting: My February Tomatoes”
Easy One-Pan Chicken and Veggies Recipe
I love one pan dinners. Less mess and completely customized to what you have on hand. With five people to feed and lots of different taste buds to satisfy this is my type of meal. If you don’t like one vegetable, you can eat the others. Also, less clean-up is always appreciated by whoever isContinue reading “Easy One-Pan Chicken and Veggies Recipe”
Impromptu Pizza
I’ve been feeling the strain of our monthly grocery bill increasing. I have been trying to cut costs where we can but it is painful! Anyone else feeling this way? With no extra cash, a grocery store run wasn’t in the cards today. I had to figure out dinner with what we had in theContinue reading “Impromptu Pizza”
Relax and Drink Tea
Does anyone else struggle with sleep? I used to have terrible insomnia and would spend my days feeling like I was in a fog because I could not get more than a few hours of rest, which was usually broken at best. I did some research and started making sure I was keeping a bedtimeContinue reading “Relax and Drink Tea”
Busy days and Relaxing Evenings
I had a pretty busy weekend, the garden is taking up more time, with seedlings popping up and starting new trays of seeds for some early spring planting, and I have been working on some homemade beauty and household cleaning products. Yesterday my brother and I made laundry detergent pods out of soap berries, theContinue reading “Busy days and Relaxing Evenings”
A Fool’s Spring Cleaning
Some spring renovations have happened in the greenhouse and we are ready for the seedlings to enter the building. We had some shelves in the house that we weren’t using and as usual I was running out of room in my little seed starting area, so we moved that shelving out there and it wasContinue reading “A Fool’s Spring Cleaning”
Acorn & Birch 