Foraging – How to Grow an Edible Flower Garden
Grow an edible flower garden! One that is beautiful to look at and smell but also one that will nourish your body as well as your soul. We are going to look at a variety of edible flowers and what other purposes they may serve. Some of these you may have believed are...
Making Goats Milk Soap For The First Time
Memories of “you’re gonna shoot your eye out” come to mind when I think about making goats milk soap for the first time. Or really making any homemade soap. I knew almost twenty years ago now that I wanted to make homemade soap. It was while...
How to Make Soap the Old Fashion Way – Survival Skill
Before the days of Amazon, or even the local grocer people were making soap the old fashion way. While it is easy today to run to the store and grab a bar or two or even make it yourself, the day may come when you need this survival skill. What You Need to Make Soap...
See the Progress of Our DIY Camper Project Now that Spring Has Arrived
We are making progress on our DIY camper project now that spring has shown up. Just yesterday we got the first of four windows installed. One would think that installing a window would be pretty straight forward. However, that was not our experience. To begin with we...
How to Make Artisan Sourdough Bread at Home
As you all know by now, I love to make artisan sourdough bread at home. After years of trial and error my loaves, now, turn out consistently amazing. Yeah, I’m tooting my own horn. Yesterday, on Facebook, a friend was struggling to make artisan sourdough bread...
How to Re Batch Soap – Save Money and Resources
DustyFrame Shares with us her experience with how to re batch soap because it did not turn out the first time around. I have had similar problems, and this was my solution also. Here is Dusty’s story How to Re Batch Soap: I’m still learning this whole soap...
Insanely Effective Simple Trick To End Bee Sting Pain
Bee sting pain – it’s the worst right? The other day I was out watering my garden, minding my own business. The grass was admittedly high, and my neighbor, God bless his soul, keeps bees. Lots and lots of bees. While I love that there are tons of bees in...
Great Progress We Are Excited About Flatbed Truck Camper Build So Far
We’re pretty excited about the progress on the DIY Flatbed truck camper build so far. Today we managed to attach the pillars to the floor. And have put the two pieces of floor together. Building the Pillars Each pillar was created by planing the cedar planks we...
Simple Yet Epic Formula for a DIY Truck Camper Build Bringing Clarity to Old People
Yep, we’re gonna do it! The DIY truck camper build project has already started. In this post I plan to outline where we are in the process and the formula we plan to follow to create the flatbed truck camper of our dreams. (Hopefully this won’t turn into a...
Welcome! Hartnana (and her husband Dave the truck driver) share the self sufficient living skills that we have gleaned from living on a homesteading.
Find this on Amazon:The soap maker’s journal is designed to help both the novice and experienced soap maker (really any bath & body product crafter) keep track of their soap making experiences. With a place to record your recipes, additions & results as well as a place to include pictures of your finished products, this journal should help you remember those little details necessary to duplicate successes and avoid repeating “fails”. Also included is a SAP chart, directions for creating your own soap recipes, a couple of basic soap recipes, and a chart highlighting essential oils fragrance notes. Having all of your crafting notes in one place makes the process so much easier. And you don’t have to be technology dependent for creating new recipes