The RV remodeling/renovations are complete! Four months of time, countless trips to the hardware and auto parts store and more work than we anticipated (when is it ever less?) and the only thing left to do is convert Benny the Brave to run on waste veggie oil (WVO) and move a few things in. All [...]
Posts Tagged ‘DIY’
Repairing Reusable Shopping Bags
These canvas shopping bags are about 20 years old. They belonged to my mom; proof we’ve been living green before I even knew what it meant. The average reusable bag has the lifespan of over seven hundred disposable plastic bags. I love the fact they have lasted so long! Canvas shopping bags are the best; [...]
Easy Homemade Butter
I learned how to make homemade butter today. . . Well, technically I learned how to do it over a year ago but today was the first time I put my homemade butter-making knowledge to the test. I have no fancy equipment and no churn and that’s just the kind of kitchen work I like. [...]
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Homemade vanilla extract is the best. And the cheapest! With what we’d spend to buy a few ounces of vanilla extract at the store, we made two large jars full. (Over a year later and we and others are still have barely made a dent!) . One ounce of vanilla beans, sliced open (we bought ours [...]
Janky
Jan-ky [jang-kee] -adjective 1. Inferior quality; held in low social regard; old and dilapidated; refers almost exclusively to inanimate material objects: We tried to pick up on these girls waiting for the bus, but I was driving my sister’s janky 1989 Geo Metro so we just got clowned instead. . 2. Poorly constructed or unattractive; [...]
My name is Tara. I am a mama and a lover, a full-time nomad, a passionate devourer of Life and an Organic Life Coach.
