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Category: New to Me – Thrifting Adventures
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Last year I didn’t can at all. Not a single thing. I can’t even remember if I thought about canning. Probably not. At this point in the year I was still like, “whoa two kids, holy shit this is no joke.” Luckily I had many preserves still left from my 2011 can-a-thon. But by the time things were getting ripe this year I was itching to get more put up. I froze lots of berries, and some veggies, but I really wanted to can. And my first big batch was the corn. My friend and I made roasted corn salsa,…
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I am going to let you in on a secret. I can read and plan and buy supplies with the best of them only to have our days spill out like a box of crayons never to be put back in the right order. I often crawl into bed at one AM happy knowing I have set up a great activity, cleaned up our learning area, and that I actually know what we are going to do the next morning. This set up was one of those times. I found this great vintage magnet book at a book store in…
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It’s no secret that I love to thrift. I have a hard time passing a Goodwill by without stopping in. Usually I don’t know what I’m looking for and end up with lots of random things. Sometimes I find something on my wish list that I wasn’t expecting to and that is even better. My best find to date was probably a children’s book about home birth that is out of print and was like new when I got it. I kept looking around waiting for someone to snatch it out of my hands! Lately my favorite find was this…
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