February 2009

Ivory’s Ivory Rebatch

Body Care Products

Last week, TL acquainted you with the perils of remilling homemade soap. In that article, she mentions that ‘tallow’ soap is easier to rebatch. Well guess what’s the first ingredient in Ivory Soap? Sodium Tallowate. Which mean saponified (soapified, tee-hee) TALLOW! So, this is for all ya’ll who thought my soap wrapping post betrayed a [...]

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Homemade Breakfast Sausage

Breakfast

You probably know you can make your own sausage in a slaughter-it-and-toil-for-a-week kind of way, but you can also stir up a batch of breakfast patties super easy with just a little ground meat and a few common herbs and spices. And then you know what’s in it. Turkey Sausagemakes 8 patties 1 lb. ground [...]

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Newspaper Seedling Pots

DIY

I tried the drinking glass newspaper pots (too big), the origami newspaper pots (too big and had to think too hard), and the toilet roll paper pots (good but didn’t start collecting soon enough). So, duh, I just made tiny versions of the drinking glass pots with (don’t tell anyone) a little piece of tape [...]

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Child’s Furry Purse

Crafts

When I first tried out working with fun fur, I made this quick and easy purse for my little girl. Easy Furry Purse H hook, WW pink acrylic yarn, clearance Mango Fun Furpattern worked holding one strand of each Ch 20 Row 1. Dc in fourth chain from hook and every ch after that. Row [...]

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Homemade Lefse

Breads

Lefse (lef-suh) is a Norwegian griddle bread, sort of a potatoey Scandinavian tortilla. Serve hot with butter and cinnamon-sugar or jam. Or just devour them plain. This recipe is enough for two or three–double or triple it for a crowd. Lefsemakes 12 1 1/4 lbs. potatoes1 T. butter1/8 cup milk1/2 tsp. salt1 1/2 cups all-purpose [...]

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