Every Halloween, we make something delectable with apples, often caramel apples, and it has become a yearly tradition. But this year, we thought we would switch it up! We made the most delicious, good old fashioned candy apples, that have a nice, crunchy candy coating, but not overly sticky, so no breaking or ripping out…
Month: October 2021

How to Quickly Make a Homemade Kerchief
I am amazed how pioneers and even until the 1940s and ’50s how most sewed their own clothes. I find it fascinating – girls learned from their mothers who learned from their mothers, and was a skill passed on through the years until buying clothes became more popular than sewing them. I would have loved…

Homemade Crab Apple Juice
It is super simple to make homemade crab apple juice without a juice press. I received this recipe 20 years ago, and it has been a juice that we make every year when the crab apples are ready to pick. It’s quick and easy, with just a few steps, to create a yummy homemade juice!…

Nutty Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These nutty double chocolate chip cookies is a delicious spin on chocolate chip cookies. These cookies are soft and tender thanks to the nut/seed butter! You can easily make these with peanut butter or nut free using a seed butter of choice. Because my girls have various nut allergies, I use Wow Butter which is…

5-Minute Fudge Boil Cookies
These 5 minute no-bake fudge cookies are also known as haystacks, fudgies, poor man cookies, chocolate fiddle diddles, chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies, preacher cookies, boil cookies or oatmeal boil cookies. These no-bake cookies were made popular in the 1930’s and there’s an array of names for these yummy morsels! I have been making these candy-like…

Quick to Sew Pot Holders
It is easy to make your own quick to sew pot holders!! We love different sewing projects that are easy, especially since we are sewing-beginners! These pot holders took me less than an hour to make, and probably took me more time to decide what fabric I wanted to use than to sew the pot…

Slow Cooker Roast Beef with Veggies
The crockpot or slow cooker is an awesome way to have a delicious, hearty meal without having to cook all day! You can come home from your busy day and enjoy a yummy meal. And if you toss the veggies in along with the meat, then you have a full meal ready to eat, just…