Madder

How many of you read the post title and thought: “Ah, she’s getting into dyeing plants now.” If you did, you have now officially earned your Wackadoodle Homesteading/Fiber Arts Certification (WHAC). Congratulations. I think. If you just thought I was...

Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies–No added Sugar

I appreciate trying to live within ones means. What does this have to do with cookies?  My nephew was married last week and, besides the wedding cake, the reception was cookies and punch, supplied by family and friends. I hope the trend away from the extravagant...

Spilanthes

Huh? Spil what? It’s a real thing. I’ve got some growing in my vegetable garden, right at one end of the pepper patch, not to confuse you–it’s not  in the capsicum family. It’s its own thing, a medicinal herb I selected because the seed...

Floor Fail

Here’s a little bedtime story for you lovely readers: Once upon a time, a beautiful princess named Ivory got a wild hair to put in her own laminate floors.  (After all Princess TL did it ten years ago, so how hard could it be?)  She borrowed a chop saw and...