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Recipe: Play Dough
2 Cups flour 1 cup salt 2 tbsp cream of tartar 2 tbsp vegetable oil 2 cups water food colouring Mix dry ingredients together. Add oil, water and food colouring and stir until smooth. Heat over medium,...
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Local Buying
I have been lying awake trying to solve the economic problems of the island I live on in my head. I did this all day also. This is not a new activity; I grew up in Newfoundland. I spent rather a lot of...
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Not the Best Farm Day
So, after the debacle with the greenhouse on Sunday, and reassurance from the farming community yesterday, this morning was spent taking the plastic off the defunct frame so that I can reuse it on a...
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Frugal by Habit
I got a really sweet love seat from Freecycle the other day, so I now have a nice looking sunroom for the bargain price of… oh, $6 of gas to run to town for the couch. Everything else was already in...
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Costuming my Life
I spent the morning at the mall. There is no place quite so effective at bringing out my internal war over frugality (and the economy of my home) and responsibility (and the economy of the world). This...
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The Troll and the Farmers Market
alternately titled: “Be Careful, She Might Have a Blog.” Today somebody walked up to my table at the market, picked up a jar of my spices, said, “That’s too expensive,” and banged it back down onto the...
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