by Ivory Soap | Dec 16, 2011 | Cleaning Products, Household
“Surely not!” This is what I thought when I heard TL say that if she wanted her kitchen floor to stay clean she had to get down on it with a scrub brush every week or so. With soap and water? Hot water, even. And the baseboards? Every other month....
by Ivory Soap | Sep 14, 2011 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
Homesteader’s Supply got such a rush of questions about straw bale gardening, that they wrote us a tutorial! Something to keep in mind when considering gardening with straw bales, make sure you purchase straw and not hay bales… hay will get too hot in the...
by Ivory Soap | Sep 13, 2011 | Crafts, Fabric & Sewing
Today’s felting tutorial comes courtesy of Melanie McMinn, an American expat who lives in Northland, New Zealand and blogs at the Frugal Kiwi. She moved to the Southern Hemisphere eight years and she’s had a non-stop migraine/chronic headache since 2009....
by Ivory Soap | Sep 5, 2011 | Crafts, Crochet
Ladder Stitch Dishcloth G needle, worsted weight cotton ch 33 row 1: sc in 2nd ch from hook, skip 2 ch, 3 dc in next ch, (ch 3, skip 3 ch, sc in next ch, skip 2 ch, 3 dc in next ch) 4 times. row 2: ch 1, turn, sc in first dc, skip 2 dc, 3 dc in next sc, (ch 3 , sc...
by Ivory Soap | Aug 30, 2011 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
The following is a guest post from this week’s giveaway vendor, Homesteader’s Supply! The folks at Homesteader’s Supply often work with people struggling to be more self sufficient yet constrained by job, location, physical ability and so much more. One...
