Smart Homemakers Make Smart Choices to Save Money

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Being a smart homemaker means you are also a smart consumer. We all love to save money, some more than others from extreme couponers to bargain hunters. There isn’t one right or wrong way to be a smart consumer and a smart homemaker. Some may not think about it, but did you know you can [...]

Productive Homemakers

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Productive Homemakers Ebook Ideas from marriage, to gardening, to working online, we cover many ideas in this ebook to help you to become a productive and successful homemaker. This ebook features articles previously featured on the Homemaking-Cottage.com‘s Deluxe Edition. This ebook includes articles such as: Meat and Potatoes – Slow Cooker Salisbury Steak Cozi Helps [...]

Come Home to the Simpler Life

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Come Home to the Simpler Life Ebook Enjoy enhancing your homemaking skills, especially those lost through the years. Read. Discover. Enjoy This ebook features articles from: “All Things Feminine” themed ideas previously featured on the Homemaking-Cottage.com‘s Deluxe Edition. Read articles written to enhance your home and family. Discover new and delicious recipes. Enjoy the support [...]

Ownership: Part of the American Dream

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“Property is the fruit of labor-property is desirable – it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Property and other forms of ownership is part of the American dream. While it may [...]

2011: A Year in Review

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There is something that I love about new beginnings. As we reach the end of the old year 2011 and get ready to welcome 2012 I have been doing a lot of reflecting over my life. 2011 has been a very good year, but also a year filled with intensity and trials. There has been [...]

Three Ways to Bring More of the Outdoors Inside

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With the hectic and draining schedules most people live these days, it’s truly a wonder many of us are able to get outdoors at all to spend a little time in the fresh air and afternoon sun. Instead, many of us spend hours dawdling away at work desks behind computer screens, sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic [...]

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The Color in the Season Reminds me of the Beauty in my life

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Letter from the Editor: Rich red, bright gold, deep brown: the main beautiful colors against a beautiful blue sky. The beautiful colors in the fall remind us of the color we can find in our everyday lives.  I used to dread the coming of fall knowing that what was to come after all the splendid [...]

Celebrating the Season

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Letter from the Editor: How are you feeling about your home, self, and family?  In your eyes can it use improvement?  For years, I struggled to be sure everything was in place, and to be sure I appeared to have it all together, and to truly appear happy even though deep down my life was [...]

Make a Kid’s Chalkboard Table with Benches

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Little people matter too, right? Being a mom of eight, I am always on the look out for projects that are fun for the kids but are practical as well. Here is a DIY chalkboard table for kids + how to make mini-benches. Enjoy! Mini- toddler table with mini-benches. The table is a coffee table [...]