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The Give Away is Over.....Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 12:52 - 1 Comments - Post Comment - LinkThe All-in-One cloth pad give away at my store, From the Past, is over. You can see who won the drawing at - http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ Belle Button/ Logo for From the Past....Could You Please Share it???Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 01:23 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
A friend made me this button/logo for my blog store From the Past. It would be so helpful if you all would share it on your blogs. It is just a picture, so you will have to add the link to it. The link that needs to go with it http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ I would really appreciate anyone who would share this on their blogs. Belle I am having a give away right now at my store - http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ The give away is for one All-in-one pad. You can sign up at my store. All-in-One Pad Give awayPosted on Monday, August 18, 2008 at 11:58 - 1 Comments - Post Comment - LinkI am having a give away for an All-in-One pad. If you would like to sign up, please go to the link below. I am holding the give away at my store. http://homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ Scrapbook Give Away and Pirate book Give AwayPosted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 03:22 - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Linkhttp://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BChsMamaof3/575002/?#c1125755 Go to the link above. Huber hof academy is having a blog-o-versery giveaway. She is giving away a book about pirates and some scrapbooking suplies! You can go to the link above to sign up for the giveaway! Belle http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ From the Past - Cloth Pads, Soap, and things for BabyPosted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 10:30 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkBelow is the link to my blogspot store, From the Past. http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com I sell cloth pads, soap and things for baby. I make pads in all lengths and in two different styles. Pleas, take a look at the link above. ~Belle~ Goods4Girls: Sending cloth pads to Girls in AfricaPosted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 10:28 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link Goods4girls is a really neat site! Please click on the link to find out more about it. I am making some cloth pads to send the Goods4girls site. This site accepts donations of cloth pads. They take cloth pads to girls in Africa. The cloth pads that are sent muct be made with cotton / flannel, it must have wings, and it must have a waterproof barrier in the pad. For all the rules, go to this link - http://www.goods4girls.org/2008/02/how-to-donate.html I sell cloth pads in my blogstore, ~From the Past~ http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com For every pad purchase at my store, I will make a pad and send to good4girls. ~*Belle*~ Sticker Club!!! Would your Child like to Join??Posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 10:26 - 1 Comments - Post Comment - LinkThis is fun for kids! It is a sticker club. If your child would like to join, please contact me with you child's name and address, and I will send out their letter to be in the sticker club. To be in the stcker club, your child will send one package of stickers to person #1 (the name of that person will be on the letter that I send your child). Then your child will send out six letters inviting their friends to join the sticker club. In the end, your child will send out one package of sitckers and receive 36!!! My little brother and his friends are doing this. It is really fun for them to get mail. Let me know if your child would like to join! Belle In the Garden, Wild Blackberries, and EmbroideryPosted on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 02:05 - 3 Comments - Post Comment - LinkWe put some beans in the freezer, since we did not have enough to can. We usually can all of our beans, but are bean plants are not all producing at the same time. We had to replant beans, because some plants got washed out when we had a big rain this spring. Tomatoes are not ready to can yet. We are all out of tomatoes, since we did not can any last year. We are in need of canned tomatoes. My Jalapeno peppers are ready to be picked. I did not grow any Bell peppers/Mangoes. My Granny grew Bell peppers so she shared with me :) I think I will make some B-B-Q sauce with my with the bell peppers. I will then freeze the Barbeque sauce. I hope to make salsa with the Jalapenos and Bell peppers, if we get enough tomatoes. We went berry picking earlier this week for Wild Blackberries. We found some berries and we also found a swarm of bees. We have bee stings on us. We have 2 1/2 gallons of Wild Blackberries in the freezer. I hope we can pick some more before the vines are done producing. In early July we made Apple Sauce with apples that were given to use for free! We didn't get to make very much apple Sauce. Hopefully, we will get some fall apples and make more Apple Sauce. I love warm, homemade Apple Sauce! I have been making little embroidered Christmas Ornaments and Basket Tie-ons. I am selling some in my store and I want to give some as gifts to family an friends. You can visit my store, From the Past, at this link - http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ Belle
My Friend's Shop!!!Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 01:28 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkMy Friend, Bethany, she is 10 years old, has started shop called, The Mercantile. She has some really cute homemade scrunchies for sale there. She will soon be selling soap too! She would probably love it if you would check out her shoap and leave her a comment. Here is the link: http://www.abigailscrafts.blogspot.com/ Belle Apples, Apples, Apples!!Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 02:12 - 7 Comments - Post Comment - LinkWe are busy with apples right now. A friend we know is giving us apples, for free! Our friend is letting us have all the apples that we want, that is so nice of our friend!
We are making Apple Sauce and Apple Pie filling to put in the freezer. I would also like to try making homemade Apple Juice.
We have never made homemade Apple Sauce before now. We thought this would be a great time to try make it since, we are getting so many apples right now. The Apple Sauce is delicious! (I am eating some of the apple sauce we just made right now, as I type!)
We are staying busy with that and the wild blackberries are coming on in my area. I am excited to start picking them! We will probably pick some this week, so we can make some Blackberry Jelly! We use a lot of Blackberry Jelly in Peanut Butter Sandwiches.
Belle
A Laundery Line Tip for Stiff ClothesPosted on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 09:18 - 3 Comments - Post Comment - LinkI love the smell of clothes after they have been on the clothes line! They smell of outside!
Here is a tip for those of you who do not like the stiff feeling that laundry gets when it is hung on the line. After your laundry has dried on the clothes line, put the laundry in the dyer for 5 - 10 minutes. This will 'fluff up' you laundry a bit making it less stiff and it will also kill any bugs that might have crawled in your laundry. Belle The End to Diary with No ShampooPosted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 03:59 - 2 Comments - Post Comment - LinkI have been without commercial shampoo for somewhere near 80 days.
I have been using different things for my hair in replacement of commercial shampoo. I have used whipped egg whites, homemade soaps, baking soda, and apple cider vinegar. These things have been working great for my hair up until these past few weeks,
My hair feels very sticky now and has the smell of smoke. I think that the sticky feeling on my hair is sebum.
My hair just doesn't seem to be coming clean, right now. For the past two days, I have used baking soda, to take of the sticky feeling and apple cider vinegar, to help rinse of the baking soda and the build-up feeling of my hair. Even after washing with these for two days in a row the sticky feeling is just not going away.
When I take a shower, a lot of hair is falling out, more than normal.
So, for right now, this is good-bye to the 'no 'poo' hair treatment. Tomorrow, I will go back to washing my hair in the store stuff.
This is the end of my Diary with no shampoo......for now. I will probably go back to 'no 'poo' someday. I will share with you when I do.
~Belle~
PeanutButter Collasels~A Great Cookie Recipe!Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 08:42 - 0 Comments - Post Comment - LinkPeanutButter Collasels
These cookie make a great for breakfast with a glass of milk or great for a snack. They are a chewy cookie. They are delicious! 3/4 C. Sugar 3/4 C. Sugar 1/4 C. Butter 2 Eggs 1/2 tsp. Vanilla 1/4 tsp. Baking Soda 1 C. PeanutButter 3 C. Oatmeal 1 C. Milk Chocolate Chips ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Preheat oven to 350 Degrees. Mix Sugars, Butter, eggs, Vanilla, Baking Soda, and PeanutButter in a large bowl with an electric mixer. After Sugars, Butter, eggs, Vanillam, Baking Soda, and PeanutButter is mixed together, stir in Oatmeal and Chocolate Chips. Drop cookiedough by spoonfulls onto a cookie sheet. Bake the cookies @ 350 degrees for 8-10 min.
Picture of the PeanutButter Collasels. Belle Pistachio Pudding Recipe - Pictures Too!Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 11:57 - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link~Pistachio Pudding~
This is a quick and easy dessert, it is also very delicious!!!
To make Pistachio Pudding, you will need:
The Negative Effects of Calendula?Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 04:31 - 2 Comments - Post Comment - LinkIn reply to a comment, I did a little more research about Calendula. I couldn't find any information with such negative effects of Calendula. I was just wondering, has anybody else heard of or read about negative effects of Calendula? I am studying herbs and I find them very interesting. I would love for you to share any information about Calendula or your favorite herbs.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(This is the comment that was left for me)Untitled CommentPosted by Anonymous on Monday, June 2, 2008 at 10:23 - LinkYou got me curious about Calendula, so I went to my trusty Complete Guide to Safe Herbs by Chris D. Meletis, N.D. to investigate. It apparently does more than look pretty and give off a lovely fragrance....It has substances in it that help stimulate wound healing and has anti-inflammatory effects. It can be used as an ointment, tincture or spray for external use to treat skin problems, especially cuts, sores, rashes, and slow healing wounds. (Not to be used on deep wounds or severe injures as it is also known as "pot marigold." I'm assuming that is not good.) It is safe to use externally on children. Caution: Internal use can cause uterine bleeding and miscarriage. Looks like using it in tea might not be such a good idea, but in a soap would be wonderful healing for the skin. Many Blessings, Holly@aiminghigh www.homeschoolblogger.com/aiminghigh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SIDE EFFECTS AND CAUTIONSAs culinary herb, the calendula is considered to be one of the safest herbs around. At the same time, a person can react badly to the calendula, for example, a person who has an allergic reaction to pollen of any plant species belonging to the daisy family of plants, like the ragweed, may experience an allergic reaction to the calendula as well, though the chances of this occurring are rare. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any information that you all could share would be great! ~Belle~ I Won a Contest?!?Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 12:42 - 3 Comments - Post Comment - LinkI got an email today, informing me that I won the contest on the Front Porch for a full-year subscribtion for Season's of the Home Magazine!! I was so excited when I saw that email and read on the Front Porch that I had won! Thank you to whoever pick me! I have never read this magazine. I can't wait to get my first issue! Thanks again! Belle Did You Know......All Soaps Have Lye (Sodium Hydroxide)? Read here to find out more!Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 02:01 - 5 Comments - Post Comment - LinkI made a batch of soap this evening, it is goat milk soap. When this soap is ready to use, I think I will list some of it in my store. Making goat milk some was neat. It was different than just using water in the soap. The goat milk turned orange when it is added to the lye. All of the sites I read on the internet said that the goat milk/lye mixture would turn orange. Oh...by the way...Did you all know that all soaps have lye in them, even the soaps that come from the store? Without lye, there is no soap. Most store soaps list lye as Sodium Hydroxide or they list it under other things. Many people are afraid of homemade soap because of the lye (Sodium Hydroxide). I tell them that all soaps have lye in them, with out lye...no soap. The bad thing about commercial soaps is that the commercial soaps take out all the glycerin in there soaps. Glycerin is very good for your skin! The commercial soaps take out the glycerin and sell it. Have you ever seen those bags full of bars of glycerin at places like hobby lobby? Those bars of glycerin come from soap and without lye there is no soap. Many people just melt down bars of glycerin, scent it, and call it soap. Many say that it is there glycerin bars of soap have no lye, but....glycerin comes from soap...and without lye....there is no soap. My homemade soap has all the glycerin left in! ~Belle~ Please, visit my store ~From the Past~ where I sell cloth menstrual pads, soap, and things for baby! http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/
In the GardenPosted on Monday, May 26, 2008 at 01:02 - 2 Comments - Post Comment - LinkThe rain washed up a lot of the seeds Dad and sister planted. I don't think the corn got washed up, but I think most of the beans did.
I recently learned that Calendula is an herb! I am going to try to make some tea if they grow. I would also like to make some soap with Calendula petals. I am not sure what Calendulas smell like, I will have to wait and see if they smell nice. So right now this is what is in the garden: Green Beans (if they didn't all get washed away) Corn Rudker Tomatoes Jalapeno Pepper plants Calendulas Hopefully, we will get some more things in the garden this week. ~Belle~ Look at Treasures in the Dust!!! Homeschool Books, Craft Stuff, clothes, DVD's, Homeschool Toys, Much More! Look!Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 at 12:15 - 2 Comments - Post Comment - LinkA blogger friend I know started a blog store! I went to look at it, it is really neat! She has lots of things for sale and she just opened her blog store too! She has Homeschool Books: When I was there I saw 5th and 7th grade math books, homeschool books about weather, and a homeschool wooden fraction puzzle. She has craft stuff: Iron Transfers, lots and lots of stamping stuff, and cross stitch kits. She also has clothes and DVD's. The best thing I likes about her store was most of the stuff there was $1 - $2 !!! Go and check out her blog store! You might see something you like! Here is the link -http://treasuresinthedust.blogspot.com/ Belle YUM! Macroni and Tomatoes RecipePosted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 02:43 - 3 Comments - Post Comment - LinkThis is a delicious family recipe! I have been making this recipe a lot since Mom has been sick, it is something that isn't spicy so, she eats this often and she LOVES them!!The doctors want Mom to gain a bit more weight before she starts chemo, because chemo tears her down. I have been trying to make her favorite foods so she can gain the weight that the doctors want her to weigh! Here is what you will need to make this recipe:
First, prepare all of your ingredients. Then, fill the large pot 1/2 - 3/4 way full with water. Put the pot with lid on the stove on high heat. When the water in the pot begins to boil, put in the on cup of macaroni. Let the water and macaroni boil for 10 - 11 minutes on high heat. Stir the macaroni ocasionally to prevent the macaroni from sticking to the bottom of the pot. After the water and macaroni have been boiled for 10 - 11 minutes, pour the pot of water and Macaroni into the strainer and strain out all of the water. Then, put the macaroni back into the pot. Put a little bit of butter into the pot with the macaroni, just so the macaroni doesn't stick to each other or the bottom of the pot. Now, pour in the quart of tomatoes into the pot and add the spoonful of bacon grease. Put the pot on low heat on the stove so it stays warm until ready to serve. This recipe is really simple and it is really delicious. I hope you all enjoy it! ~Belle~ Check out my store ~From the Past~ where I sell cloth pads, soap, and things for baby. http://www.homesteaderbelle.blogspot.com/ |
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