Thrift at Home

The principle here is simple and relates to other areas of life:  keep something out of sight for a little while and it becomes new and exci...

I have a fair amount of experience in slow cookers, thanks to the cookbooks I have edited and the fact that I own and use two cookers.  I li...

A friend read this poem at our women's retreat in March, and I loved it so much.  It speaks so gently of traditions and generational dif...

I usually don't save the brine when a jar of pickles is done.  But this time, I saw a trick in  More with Less  that worked great. T...

I am deeply pleased and proud that I persevered with knitting socks.   I got the idea years ago , got nice green yarn and double-pointed nee...

Just before Easter, I had a vision of a butter-yellow skirt.  I managed to whip it out before Easter morning.  It's from the "mis...

 My knitting needles were stuffed in a bag, and now that I'm getting traction with my knitting, I was frequently trying to see what I ...