This week, my favorites are mostly things to make. Just in time to get ready for the holidays (Christmas, Chanukah)! Hope you find something you like!


Food

Stockpiling Vegetables lets you know how long those vegetables will last.

These Homemade Breadsticks look so good!

Easy Holiday Appetizers

Things to Make


Button Checker Board Tutorial

Crochet Beret

How to Make Pom Poms tutorial.

Homemade and Frugal Christmas Ideas

Recycle Tutorial – Making of T-Shirt yarn

Make a Dollhouse Out of a Drawer How cute is that dollhouse?

Lunch Sack Tutorial

Pretties to Crochet for the Kitchen

Fresh Cedar Monogram Wreath

Do It Yourself Christmas Gifts- Preserved Lemons

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Saturday Share

I’m back with another great edition of “This Weeks Favorites”!  (said with proper over-dramatic flair)

Okay…. This weeks favorites look like they are all craft and holiday related. What? Where’s the food links? hmmmmm……not sure how that happened. lol

Hope you find some new favorites as well!

I love these PB Knock Off Candles are so great. Just think of the possibilities! Anything you can print, you can put on a candle! What great gifts!

We love to make homemade bread and rolls here. I just love this Vintage Inspired Dinner Roll Holder. How awesome would this be on the dinner table full of homemade rolls? And she has a tutorial!

Need mittens? Now you can make your own Fleece Mittens!

Easy fun School has Thanksgiving Printables available. My kids still love to do sheets like these.

Advent starts the Sunday after Thanksgiving! Are you ready? Try making your own Christmas Advent Calendar.

8 Handmade & Homemade Gift Ides is just in time for the holidays. 10 Clever Dish Towel Crafts has great gift ideas, too.

If you celebrate Chanukah, here are lots of Chanukah Crafts Ideas.

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I found some great new favorites. Hope you find them helpful!

Heal and Soothe Bumps and Bruises Naturally has tips and great recipes. I guess it’s not really appropriate to say “I can’t wait to try them” because that would mean someone got hurt. But it’s nice to have the info in case it is needed.

My Jewish Learning Recipes has lots of great recipes to try.

Shabbat Shalom Cooking has some more great recipes.

15 Shocking Food Industry Secrets is a MUST read!

These 2 downloads are great:

Messianiac Genealogy Free Download

Messianic Genealogy Download Number Two

A Kitchen Prayer. I find the kitchen to be a great place to pray. Everyone leaves me alone when I’m in there. I guess their afraid if they come in, I’ll put them to work. lol

A Do It Yourself Christmas – 34 Great Gifts You Can Make Yourself It’s time to start making Christmas presents and this page has some great ones!

We haven’t made these Cinnamon Ornaments in quite a few years. I think we will make them again this year.

Have you ever searched online for medical information? It can be very confusing. Here are the 5 Best Web Sites to Get Answers.

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Saturday Share

I have lots of new favorites to share again this week! Enjoy!

I made these Pumpkin Shortbread Cookies this week. They are so good, perfect for a nice hot cup of tea.

We love books here. Although it can be hard sometimes to find books worth reading. Here’s a nice article, Christian Literature for Kids Ages 0-8 that will help.

Does the Lord… is an excellent read.

How about making your own Desk Set? Perfect Christmas presents!

If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at making soap, Make Your Own Oatmeal Soap is a good first recipe to try.

Can you believe that I’ve haven’t tried castile soap yet? I have heard good things about it, and hopefully will get to try it soon. 10 Benefits & Uses for Castile Soap is very informative.

I like to make lots of muffins and freeze them for easy breakfasts. Zucchini Cinnamon Freezer Muffins look so good, and I can’t wait to try her freezing technique

This Super Easy Braided T-Shirt Headband looks easy to make, and so cute! My girls will love this!

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It looks like this weeks favorites are all recipes! I hope you find some new favorite recipes!

If you love canning, and you love pumpkin, Why Pumpkin Butter Can’t Be Canned is a must read.

Make Your Own Candy Bars wouldn’t last long around here!

Oven-Fried Rice for 40ish is actually a vegetarian dish, but could easily be adapted for meat eaters. I’m going to put this on my list for the next church dinner.

Think Raw Veggies Are Best? Think Again is full of great information. I’ve been trying to eat more raw vegetables, but according to this article, I shouldn’t be eating some of them!

I want to try this recipe for Peanut Butter Granola the next time I make granola. I think the kids will really love it.

Then you can make these great Granola Cookies!

I recently made White Chicken Chili for the first time. This Lentil and Cauliflower Chili sounds great.

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I’m back again with some of my favorite sites this week. I hope they are helpful, and you find a few new favorites!

Did you know you could Save $20 a Year by Switching Fonts on your printer?

Homemade Clorox Wipes are convenient (& frugal!) to have with kids.

This Recipe for Natural Cough Syrup will be nice to have on hand for those inevitable colds.

Keeper of the Home’s Resources for Home Remedies, What to Buy, Where to But It is a must read.

Food

Genetically modified foods are becoming more and more prevalent in the stores. If you concerned (which we should all be) read Tips For Avoiding GMO’S to help get you started.

These Orange Scones look so good. Perfect for a nice cup of tea.

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I have a lot of favorites this week!  Every Saturday or Sunday, I start a This Weeks Favorites post and keep adding to it all week. That makes it easy to add new favorites.

Make Your Own Body Double is just the thing if you like to sew, crochet, or knit for yourself. My daughter was asking for a dressmakers dummy the other day. Now she can make here own for a fraction of the cost.

Throw a Party That Looks Like a Million at a Fraction of the Cost is a great post to read if you like to have parties.

Raising Homemakers has a great post on Growing Children with Character.

I think I found my next project! Sweet Flower Grannies.

I loved Like a Warm Cup of Coffee’s Rules to Remember When Your Reading God’s Word. I’m going to print this out and hung it up. I think I might try and make bookmarks with this on it for the kids to use in their Bibles.

Make your own paper mache We love paper mache. I have made pinatas for the kids birthdays for years. I really should dig all the pictures out and do a post on them. I’ve made some interesting ones. lol Just last month, we made shofars using papermache.

My boys love Star Wars. I think I’ll save Building a Milenium Falcon for a rainy day. That should keep them busy for awhile!

My kids hate cough drops or any sore throat product. They would actually rather suffer from a sore throat than use anything. I will have to try making these Honey Cough Drops. I think they will like them and I think they will get some relief from these drops.

And because my favorites always have to include food….

These Spiced Apples in a Jar look so good!

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