Happy Hearts At Home

I made this pillowcase dress for my toddler using these instructions. I used one of the vintage pillow cases from my collection. It was ver...

Just for fun... this test is a long one, over 100 questions. It's based upon the four temperaments: Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholy and ...

I'm a Girl 8.jpeg Originally uploaded by Temeculamom . I saw these adorable scans of a vintage 1956 baby girl book on one of my flickr g...

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We had been buying boxes of frozen sausage biscuits for my nine year old son who loves to heat these by himself in the microwave in the morn...

Yesterday I made soap by rebatching Ivory soap. Although I could have made my own soap with lye, I thought I'd try working with Ivory so...

This was so easy, and so flavorful. I used the c ondensed chicken soup recipe at Tammy's Recipes . I much prefer this to the canned, a...

Making non-instant rice is very inexpensive, and takes only 20-25 minutes on my stove top which has electric burners. You need a pot with a ...

I got a vintage hankie during my last visit to the thrift store, and I'm building a collection. A friend shared the prettiest idea for a...

I was sorting through some old photos when I came across a few of our home taken shortly after we had moved. That was seven years ago, not t...

So we took the cat to the vet, he viewed our slide and determined the cat had sucking lice. YUCK! He said the best method for remedying the ...

Updating this 2006 list....will add more soon. These are things I've done to save money, but I'd love to find more: 1. Use comp...

So we decided to cancel our Verizon cell phone service. It got really expensive, and we don't use up the 400 free minutes every month. I...

Last updated 2/7/10. We went to one income in 2001, so I had to become very frugal. I've been off the retail grid for about five year...