2010-Feb-8 - Lots of Gently Used Books at BARGAIN Prices--Must find new homes :)

Please email Lisa @ Lisa@HomesteadOriginals.com

Paypal only to the above email address , I can ship however you like—just let me know  J I’ll ship MEDIA MAIL unless another request is made—please add $3.00 to your total for shipping.

BOOKS : All are BRAND NEW or in excellent shape LIKE NEW, unless they have a ** next to them, that indicates they are gently used J

 

Home & Homeschool Titles/Curriculum/Parents Books

Lasting Lessons: Mini Theme Workbooks : Many Mini Mice / Going, Going, Gone & Simply Sunflowers $2.00 each

Baby’s First Foods: A Mothers Guide to Whole Grains & Family Nourishment hardcover BRAND NEW $5.00

Writing: The Bridge Between Us by Popular Weasel Press Student & Teacher Book – BRAND NEW $3.00 set

Premeditated Parenting by Steve Nelson BRAND NEW $4.00

Just Around the Corner- Steve & Terri Maxwell BRAND NEW $5.00

All In Good Time: Real Life Organizing for Work at Home Moms by Debbie Williams BRAND NEW $3.00

Household Wisdom / Tessa Evelegh  BRAND NEW hardcover $5.00

Momma’s Guide to Quiet Times in Loud Households –BRAND NEW Kimberly Eddy $3.00

The Basic Steps to Successful Homeschooling – Vicki Brady $3.00 **

Yankee Home Hints – Earl Proulx $4.00

A Servants Heart Bible Curriculum  Bob Jones University Press Teachers Edition LIKE NEW $10.00

The Little Book of Big Reasons to Homeschool : Book and Companion Bible Study Book BRAND NEW $5.00

Homeschooling at the Speed of Life w/CD by Marilyn Rockett BRAND NEW  $10.00

Planet Earth 25 Environmental Projects BRAND NEW $3.00

One Blood – Ken Ham Hard Cover- BRAND NEW $3.00

Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling BRAND NEW $2.00

Skydiving for Parents – Jane Bullivant BRAND NEW $3.00

History of the US The New Nation Teachers Guide BRAND NEW $4.00

The How & Why of Homeschooling by Ray Ballman $3.00 **

Fields w/ God: A Nature Devotional by Lorraine Curry $3.00

The Narrow Way Bible & Character Study /Curriculum by Pearables $15.00 *

The Art of Argument by Classical Academic Press Teacher & Student book set $10.00

When you Rise Up by RC Sproul $4.00

 

Books for Homeschool / Children /Family / Readers

 

Andrea Carter & The Family Secret BRAND NEW $3.00

Silver Sails ABEKA $2.00 **

Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn $2.00

Heroes of the  Faith  : David Livingstone $2.00 **

Five Little Peppers & How they Grew by Margaret Sidney $3.00 **

The Christian Philosophy of Patrick Henry $5.00

Stories of Pilgrims Christian Liberty Press $4.00

Annie Quinn in America hardcover $4.00

A Question of Yams BJUP $3.00 **

Solider Fritz and the Enemies he Fought by Emma Leslie $3.00

A Family Guide to the Bible by Crossway $3.00

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling $2.00 **

ABEKA Reader : Message of the Mountain LIKE NEW $3.00

Great Truths for Little Children $2.00

Jesus Must be Really Special (hardcover) $4.00

The Secret of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks (the author of The Indian In The Cupboard) used in good shape old library copy  hardcover w/dust jacket $2.00 **

Buried in the Snow  a beautiful LAMPLIGHTER HARDCOVER BRAND NEW $5.00

American Girl: Kristen’s Surprise / Addy Learns a Lesson / Samantha’s Special Talent (hardcover) / Happy Birthday Addy / Samantha’s Winter Party (hardcover) / Meet Molly / Samantha’s Surprise /   $2.00 each ** (some of these American Girl books are like NEW, others show a little wear – FYI)

Alice In Wonderland Hard Cover LIKE NEW $3.00

At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England $3.00

The Man Who Carried the Cross for Jesus $1.00 **

Widening Horizons ABEKA $3.00 **

The Secret Lives of Cats hardcover $2.00 **

The Prince of Egypt hardcover $3.00 (collectors edition)

Jesus is Calling by Ken Ham/Master Books $3.00

The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History $10.00

The Beggars Blessing – Lamplighter Hardcover BRAND NEW $5.00

The American Twins of the Revolution- Lucy Fitch Perkins $5.00

Oliver & Amanda and the Big Snow $1.00 **

Usborne Internet linked “First Encyclopedia of Seas & Oceans” $5.00

The Grapes of Math hardcover $ 4.00

ABC Safari hardcover (Sylvan Dell Publishing) $3.00

The Rainforest Grew All Around  hardcover(Sylvan Dell Publishing) $3.00

Whistling Wings hardcover  (Sylvan Dell Publishing) $3.00

My Half Day hardcover (Sylvan Dell Publishing) $3.00

Turtle Summer hardcover (Sylvan Dell Publishing) $3.00

 

DVDS—all NEW or LIKE NEW condition $1.00 each

Dinosaur Eggs & Babies

Rainy Day Art Projects

Raising Godly Children

The Great COmmandment

The Adventures of Walker & Ping Ping

Genesis: The Key to Reclaiming our Culture

Annie: A Royal Adventure

 

CDs—all NEW or LIKE NEW condition $3.00 each

Vision Forum : The Promise (still in plastic wrap!)

The Well Integrated Homeschool

Grammar School Grammar by Tammy Peters

Vision Forum: Jennie B and the Pilot (still in plastic wrap!)

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2010-Feb-5 - Homestead Blessings: The Art of Dairy Delights

Homestead Blessings: The Art of Dairy Delights

Franklin Springs Family Media

www.franklinsprings.com

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My girls and I just love the Homestead Blessings series, such fun and such useful skills to learn–that will be useful for a lifetime! I was really thrilled with the latest release in the series, “Dairy Delights”, as we have a small herd of dairy goats!

The West ladies are always fun and give great instruction! In “Dairy Delights” we join them on their farm, and learn about making homemade, hand crank Ice Creams, Yogurts, Cheeses and YUMMY Butters! Although we’ve made Ice Creams, Cheeses and Butters–you can always learn something new, and we sure did! We’ve made honey-butter for a number of years, but never thought to add that extra pinch of cinnamon–what a treat! Herb Butters are heavenly and the West ladies give us some great ideas for delicious herbal butters–perfect on homemade breads! I also learned some new tricks in watching the ladies during their ’stretching’ process in the making of their mozzerella cheese, it’s so nice to have the visual with the DVD’s. Learn about home-dairying equipment, the delicious health and nutritional benefits (raw milk is SO good for you!) of fresh dairy products–and if you don’t have a dairy animal–don’t fret–you can use milk right off the store shelf if you like, too. We learned some fun new recipes and lots of tips for using all that farm fresh milk! We love the Homestead Blessings series of DVD’s–excellent instruction in the arts of the homesteady and old ways of doing things–which we LOVE. Absolutely recommended!

Lisa

www.HomesteadOriginals.com

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2009-Dec-31 - Homemade Dill Dip

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2009-Nov-18 - Adorable Vintage Thanksgiving Planner!

As we prepare for this Thanksgiving time…I thought I’d share this adorable Vintage Planner!  Click here to pick yours up–FREE

Lisa :)

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2009-Oct-26 - Is your Homestead prepped for Winter?

 

Ah…..Autumn…it’s here….yay! Truth be told, Winter is fast on its heels in my neck of the woods!

So is your homestead prepped for Winter?

To keep on top of all the chores that need to get accomplished, I love to use this “Basic Household Cleaning List” from DonnaYoung.org, (to find it,  scroll about a 1/4 to 1/2 way down the page and look for the title of “Basic Household Cleaning List” and you can click and download a copy for yourself :)  it helps me look at the seasonal things that we need to do to keep our homestead running somewhat smoothly…and remind me of those ‘once a year chores’ that I may otherwise forget! I also love the weekly section that lists areas that I can fill in with those monthly/weekly chores that will, and do, slip my mind without this great chart to keep us on track!  Things like flipping the matresses and cleaning the coffee pot…things I ‘intend’ to get done, but without my reminder chart….tend to get forgotten!

I was looking over my chart today, as I stood in the kitchen, tanking down that first cup o’ coffee and noted we had really got a lot done and are pretty much ready if the snow that is being predicted does fly, starting this evening. My husband is really the one who does the bulk of the outdoor prepping, but all in all the whole family participates in one fashion or another

This year we needed to really get our wood stocked back up, and thanks to much hard work by my husband, it is done! Kindling and all!!

The faucet covers are on to help protect our water system from freezing up, the hoses have been drained and put up (ah…back to hauling water to the animals!) & we needed a bit of weather stripping around a particular door, and that is done as well.

Tools that won’t be used over winter are stored (great to store with a coat of WD40 on them , or in a bucket of sand and olive oil, to keep them from rusting) tools that will be used, such as the snow rake, snow blower, snowshovels, wheelbarrow (for hauling wood from the main wood pile to the racks we have on the deck to hold a few days worth at a time), etc are ready to roll! Machines that won’t be used are cleaned up and made ready for winter (riding mower and such).

Gutters are cleaned and ready for the snow and ice–as ready as they can be.

All the childrens outdoor toys and such are put up, covered up or otherwise tended to… all their ‘treasures’ from down at the creek are picked up and put up til next year (if you don’t pick them up the creek WILL take them far, far away downstream during the annual flooding we tend to get! The creek goes from peaceful babbling brook in summer to raging river in late fall/early winter! If the creek doesn’t get ‘em  the annual windstorms will!).

We have the stove cleaned and it’s already keeping us warm and fed!  Using a real stove/chimney brush, I say ‘real’ because I’ve heard of folks using other ‘things’ to do this job (they are easily used and saves on having a chimneysweep come out and do this for you) keeps creosote down and ensures a great draw! I love to keep pots of soups or chilis going on the stove during the cold months, we also keep kettles of water on the stove–that we can keep moisture in the air with, and add essential oils, such as Eucalyptus, Lavender, Peppermint, etc for colds, sniffles, or just ‘cleaning the air’.  

Fuel!  We have our propane tanks and smaller fuel tanks full, we’re holding out on filling up larger fuel tanks, hoping prices will DROP! When winter hits with a vengence–it’s nice to have propane for using our outdoor heaters / cookstoves if need be, and gas for snowblowers, chainsaws, etc. or even filling a vehicle if caught in some sort of longer than a few days, winter event.

If you use rock salt, get it now–have it at the ready. Cat litter is another help (although messy to clean back up) to get traction for feet or tires!

Vehicles are ready, with the exception of snowtires, which legally, here, we can’t put on til November 1st–antifreeze, ice scrapers, tire chains, jumper cables, and emergency bags are all taken care of in both rigs. Althought I DO need to get my G.O.O.D bags (’get out of dodge’) repacked with extra clothing and blankets, couple candles, etc., etc. (etc = whatever you think your family will need in a “Get outta dodge” situation–I’ll leave that to your imagination) back in the vehicle–I took them out to got thru the clothing and wash it, etc.  Need to get that on the list of immediate TO DO’s!

Now is also a great time to put extra straw in the goat barns and dog houses (or whatever critters you have on your homestead!) for the animals to stay snug and warm during winter!  Also to get a rubber hammer out break ice up, in animals water containers.

I also try to have the pantry totally stocked by this time of year, so all I need to do is keep up on things, rotate and can soups, stews, chilis–meals, as I make big batches :)  I also make sure all blankets (extras included) get a good washing and are ready for tossing an extra on the beds in cold weather, the camper has a few extras, and for using as indoor window coverings in extreme cold. 

Another thing we do each Fall, is ‘inventory’! Does each person have a good pair of snowboots that still FIT them? What about snowpants? Coat? Gloves? Hats? What can we toss or donate, and what can be passed down to the next person? What about our emergency medical supplies? Do you have a family member that needs certain medications? NOW is the time to be sure those things are on hand, rather than get hit by a freak ice storm or something and not be able to get them (and that is a good plan for the entire year, emergencies don’t just happen in winter–man made disasters can happen at any time, we’ve all been witness to that!)

Last but certainly not least…just for fun–make sure you have a few decks of cards, and games (with all the pieces) handy, some hot cocoa mix, coffee and teas and OF COURSE candles–so when your power goes out or you have a winter weather event, etc.– you have some comforts that make things more pleasant than they would be without them

Let the snow fly…

Lisa

www.homesteadoriginals.com

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