Okay so it’s no big secret around here how much I LOVE landscape fabric. Some people are obsessed with shoes. Others can’t be without their cell phones, or a severe case of separation anxiety occurs. Me? I’d go into a state of mourning if landscape fabric ceased to exist. Read more all about it HERE in my latest article Read More >>
“Jamming” in the Summer Can Reduce Holiday Spending
You’ve heard that saying, Christmas in July, right? Well we’re talking Christmas presents in June over on my latest eHow article, How Your Summer Jam Session Can Cut Your Holiday Spending. Although canning jam is pretty straight forward, canning was not something I grew up around so to say I was intimidated by the whole Read More >>
10 Tips for Making Jam
With jam season right around the corner I wanted to drop a small reminder that jam makes AWESOME {and frugal} holiday gifts! Okay, so smearing it all over a piece of toast isn’t so bad either. 😉 Making really good jam is really just about following a couple of really simple guidelines. Here are my Read More >>
Canning 101 – How to Make Cherry Jam
After listening to my neighbor Girly Girl go on and on about how wonderful her $12 jar of gourmet cherry jam was, I thought I would try whipping up a batch for myself. So this morning before The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird left for practice, I made her pit 3 pounds of cherries Read More >>