It has been over ten years since I was this sick. I am an herbalist. I make the most effective medicine I know of. I eat well and try to exercise. I don’t get sick! My body means business this time. It wants me to sit down and listen, and hasn’t really given me much choice…
Category: Beauty/Health
How to Make a Rich Skin Salve for Super Dry Skin
I have told you before; it is dry here. Not just dry, like you might need some lotion and lip balm, it’s eczema, skin itching, nose bleed dry here in Colorado. I love to travel places with humidity. But, my home is here. In the winter, lotion doesn’t cut it, even though I make the…
Release and the New Perspective
I thought I would cry when the razor came on. But instead I found myself laughing the rest of the day. Joy and mirth followed me in awe and shock and relief. Struggles, burdens, fifteen hair colors, and my ego fell to the ground. Release.
Mama’s Makeover; Unfrumped (part 2)
Twenty pieces. But, as is most cases in homesteading, we can make do. I bought ten new pieces on the cheap at the mall because there are some great sales going on because everyone is still broke after Christmas. I had four more of the pieces. And I will for sure be picking up some…
Mama’s Makeover and 20 Items (part 1)
I was getting a pedicure yesterday when I saw myself through the young woman’s eyes rubbing oil on my feet. “So, a homeless lady came in today…” I could hear her tell her friends later. I looked down at my ensemble, pieces of identities past and mix-matched, in a horrifying realization that I forgot to…
How to Make a Nourishing, Infused Oil for Dry Skin
It is so dry around here that I do believe a stale cracker blowing across the desert in a windstorm has more moisture than my skin has right now. Colorado is always dry-most of the state is high desert- but winter is the worst! It is time to make a nourishing infused oil and calm…
Farmgirl Fashionista
In a world of jeans and yoga pants I suppose I stand out a bit. I think folks are both mesmerized and baffled by my attire. I was at the library last month and a mom came up to me, big eyes, all excited, and asked, “Is there going to be story time?” Heck if…
The Home Practice
I was always the last one to be chosen for a team. It was disappointing for kids to see my height and seemingly athletic limbs then to witness my ability. I can dance, that is about it. I get a stomach cramp running, hurt my wrist weight lifting, daydream enough to get hit by a ball,…
This One’s For the Girls
No really, this one’s for the girls… Homesteading women have many things in common. One, we care about economics. There is no way we could live this lifestyle if we weren’t frugal. We rather like being creative in our endeavors to recycle and reuse. Two, we care about the environment. Half the reason we turned…
Unmanifesting; Cleaning Up Our Garden of Life
I write plenty about manifesting. It completely astounds me every time how efficiently, and rather quickly, one can manifest an idea or dream. In fact this time last year when I wrote in my resolutions that we would manifest a farm, I scarcely believed it. Looking at the exorbitant jump in house prices in my state…
Farmgirl School 