The Homesteading Carnival: Budgeting, Software, Crafts, The Garden, and Recipes
Posted By Jacque on April 20, 2009
Welcome to the Homesteading Carnival! Thank you to all the authors who submitted the great articles this week. I know you are going to enjoy this edition.
Managing the Home Budget
Budgeting is a big part of homesteading. Here’s a great budgeting tool to help you manage your home budget. Silicon Valley Blogger gives us an in-depth review of YNAB (You Need A Budget) Personal Budget Software With Freebies, Bonus Tools software program posted at The Digerati Life.
Sometimes a child’s idea of money is shallow, thinking all you have to do is get out your debit card or write a check. The Smarter Wallet presents great tips and ideas for Kids and Money: Answering Your Children’s Money Questions posted at The Smarter Wallet.
Making a Beautiful Home
Setting A Proper Table makes your home beautiful, and is so easy. Miss Jocelyn shows us how at Growing in Grace Magazine, Think Pink.
We don’t watch television much if at all anymore, but one of our favourite programs used to be the ABC show Extreme Makeover:Home Edition. It is an ultimate “Make a Home Beautiful” program! We watched it last night, hoping to see some friends of ours who were invited to share their story about a drunk driver who took their fahter/husband away from them a year ago, May 2008. It didn’t air last night, but it will air next week. You can find the info about it at A Pondering Heart, Watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition….
Crafty-Goodness
HowToMe has a very fun, very interesting step-by-step article on How To Decorate Paper with Bubbles posted at HowToMe. This looks like a fun project to do with our children!
Miss Amanda has a contest for you to enter towin for a WeFitFamily $25 PhotoFiddle Giveaway. What is PhotoFiddle? I wondered the same thing! “Photofiddle.com allows users to create art from photos with free online photo effects software. Photofiddle will transform any picture into art with over 50 photo art styles to choose. Select from oil painting, Warhol pop art, watercolor painting, modern art, abstract art, Leroy neiman art style, Lichtenstein art style, outline sketches, color pencil sketches, photo collages, impasto art, film strip photo collages and more. Have us add a photographic tint like a sepia tint, blue tint, red tint, or green tint to any photograph. If you prefer have Photofiddle can put your photo to canvas.” Check out the contest, posted at The Daily Planet.
Homemade Goodness
Lizzie is making her own soap and shows us an easy & pretty painless way to rebatch soap in Rebatching Soap~Tutorial posted at A Dusty Frame.
I’ve got to try the Homemade Laundry Detergent Rocks! posted by Lynnae at Bargaineering. She also included a recipe for a Simple Homemade Bathtub Cleaner.
Hannah presents Natural Cleaners for Your Home posted at Reflections Of A Face.
Man’s Best Friend
Ralph Sparkson tells us the touching story of his dogs in Why I Love My Dog posted at I Love My Dog.
Shannon has a neat story about the surprise they found in their yard in Bunnies!!!! posted at Mountaineer Country.
The Dixon Littles were thrilled to welcome some new friends to their home a few weeks ago. See the photos of their bunny tails… at A City on A Hill.
In the Garden
Belle tells us what is going on in pictures in This Year’s Garden so far……….. posted at Homesteaderbelle’s Blog.
Cilla has a different idea for seed starters with Toilet Roll Seed Pots posted at Busy At Home. We also used this method this year. You can read about and see our photos in Planting Spring Seeds.
Yumm Homemade from the Kitchen!
Sherry presents Great Grandma’s Sugar Cookies – Shhhh! posted at Lamp Unto My Feet.
Make it from Scratch delights the senses and warms the belly with her Homemade Chicken Pot Pie recipe posted at Make It From Scratch.
Miss Rachel shows us her special family recipe, Homemade Tortillas? posted at A City On A Hill. This is the recipe that makes wonderful tortillas that she and her family enjoys so much! It’s a wonderfully easy one to follow and one that is well worth the hassle of making homemade tortillas instead of store-bought ones.
Rani presents a very simple recipe for Strawberry Gelatin posted at Christ’s Bridge.
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I hope you have enjoyed this edition of The Homesteading Carnival! Be sure to visit all of the sites and look for next week’s carnival to be hosted at the THC site, The Homesteading Carnival. You can submit your articles easily by using the BlogCarnival submission form.
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I will be participating in this next week for sure!
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Wonderful job. Great links . Your the best! HUGS!
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