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DIY Backsplash to Make Kitchen Cleanup Easy

Homesteading
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Does your kitchen have a tile (or at least easy-to-clean) backsplash? If you’re a messy … I mean somewhat over-enthusiastic cook who tends to spread the food love to your surroundings, a backsplash is a necessity.

The Art of Miscommunication

Homesteading
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Miscommunication. We’ve all experienced it in nearly every aspect of our lives.

Never Stop Learning

Homesteading
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What we learn becomes a part of who we are.

Let’s Do Laundry!

Homesteading
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For years, I’ve dreamed of having a folding station in my laundry room. Originally, I used large table that resembled a kitchen island, and then it morphed with the purchase of my first front-load washer and dryer set into the lovely countertop covered machines splashed across magazine pages today.

How To Make A Hand-Tied Bouquet

Homesteading
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Give the gift of the farm by creating an arrangement of your favorite garden and pasture flowers.

How to Build a Cob House

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To truly get in touch with the land you're on, build a cob house.

Humiliating Encounter with the Traffic-stopping Snake

Homesteading
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It has been brought to my attention by my young farmhands that while I have posted many of their antics and shenanigans, I have not divulged nearly enough of my own "learning curves.”

From ‘Selfie’ to ‘Healthie’ in 2014

Homesteading
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As a magazine staffer, it’s part of my job to keep afloat of new media trends ,and one most inescapable social media trends in 2013 was the "selfie,” which was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year.

Why PDF Patterns are Wonderful

Homesteading
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It’s a new year and time to talk sewing again. I wanted to start off the new year by expounding on the virtues of PDF sewing patterns or e-patterns. Huh! What? Let me explain.

Hood on the Range

Homesteading
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A range hood is necessary in every kitchen that has a cooktop, not just for alleviating those smoky mishaps but also for removing excess moisture, grease, gases and fumes.

How to Make Maple Syrup

Homesteading
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If you have sugar-maple sap at your disposal, transform it into delicious maple syrup for pancakes and more in three simple steps.

Grow, Evolve, Change: Nature’s Homesteading Lessons

Homesteading
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To move forward in life, every child must begin to evolve from the moment of conception, growing and changing until we thrust ourselves out into the world.

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