Soap Making From Scratch: 30+ Handmade Soap Recipes and Tips. Complete Beginner's Guide to Handmade Soaps

Soap Making From Scratch: 30+ Handmade Soap Recipes and Tips. Complete Beginner's Guide to Handmade Soaps (Soap Making Book) was a free book when this post was written.

Revised and Newly Updated Edition!

Step by step guide for making soap from scratch. A Beginners Guide and Beyond.

Easy-to-follow instructions and author's advice will help you make soap at home from start to finish.

With this guide, you'll easily master making soap. The book includes:
Step-by-step instructions for making soap at home
List of equipment and ingredients
Tips for using molds
A guide to using essential oils and fragrances
Over 30 soap recipes for beginners and spectacular soaps (all recipes are illustrated).

How To Build A Cheap Berkey Water Filter System — Homestead and Survival

How To Build A Cheap Berkey Water Filter System — Homestead and Survival



Yes, really have to look into this later when I have more time. Something that would be a need to do thing. Have to have clean drinking water!!

Darn Those Darn Socks!

My family is so hard on socks. I used to have to buy new socks at least once a month. That was getting ridiculous, so I had to learn a new skill. I had to learn how to darn them so that they could be worn for a bit longer. Now our socks last longer and I am not buying socks every time I go to a store that sells socks. It might seem like it is time consuming, but it really isn't. I get all of the socks together, put on a movie and darn away!! Before I know it I am done.


Here are a couple of videos that I had watched to learn how to do it:

6 more weeks of winter!

Is anyone really surprised? I seriously think we will have more than that! I have been so cold thst it just seems like it is going to last forever. It actually got almost 60 degrees yesterday, but it was so windy that we could not even go outside without being knocked over! I hope that spring comes soon. I need to thaw out. My hands and feet need to stop hurting!

Come on spring and summer!

Food Storage Recipe - Crock Pot Apple Cobbler

this is so easy to make.
pour a 20 ounce can of apple pie filling into a crock pot. pour a cake mix over that evenly. put pats of real butter over the cake mix. do not stir it up.
cook in crock pot for 4 hours. 

top with whipped topping.
make coffee and enjoy.