Thrify Goodness
Going yard sale hoppin’ with my best girlfriend.  Shopping big flea markets out west with my dad.  Thrifty adventures.  My life story.  A big part of it, anyway.
 
I love this Ann Taylor sweater.  It is so soft and lady-like.  Still had the tags on it. 

The frame will be painted white.  This is for my Princess […]

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For my sweet, concerned friends, an update on the blisters and burns I got from my largest rue plant.  This has definitely been eye-opening for me!  When I first noticed the “burns,” my last thought would have been a plant.  It was my husband who noted that they looked like chemical burns and asked what kind of […]

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I want to tell you more about one of the books we found at the thrift store on Saturday. Christina Katerina and the Box.
This is a really, really cute book! I read it to Princess of the Universe on Saturday night. It’s not the kind of book that I would try and build a unit study around.  […]

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It is!  And it came to me in the mail yesterday from my sweet friend, Alana. 
 
It’s true I was a bit tired when I came home yesterday, but this book very much lifted my spirits when I saw it in the mailbox and then even more when I looked at it last evening  and just marveled at […]

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For those of you who love Jan Karon books, there’s a sweet little article about Jan Karon and her first and current writing offices in the May/June issue of Victoria.

I love Jan Karon’s writing and I’ve always been a fan of Victoria magazine (though I was disappointed when the magazine began to change in character in […]

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Last week I bought a book that I’ve been wanting for a couple of months now:

Awakening Beauty, the Dr. Hauschka Way
This book is full of information about caring for your skin and what defines true beauty.  Dr. Hauschka skin products are of excellent quality, by the way.  They are expensive, but they are well researched and plant based and worth the  money you pay […]

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Armchair Puzzlers is a great book I happened upon at the thrift store today for 50 cents.  I am elated to have found this book.  It turned out to be one of those books that my children just took an instant liking to and they’ve passed it around now from one person to the next and […]

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Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days: Share a Day With 30 Homeschooling Families
I want to tell you about this book.  I think you would like it, BUT you must have in your mind before you begin to read it one of my favorite sayings:  Comparison is the death of contentment. 
Okay?
Actually, this book is a great resource […]

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Little House on the Prairie Boxed Set
Last night my daughter and I started reading aloud Little House in the Big Woods.  The Little House books were my very, very most favorite books in the world when I was little.  I could not imagine that there could be any better books.  I was so sad when I had […]

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Okay, here’s the next review.  Another book that we got for Christmas:

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom
There’s a lot to like about this book–namely, validation that, yes, I am doing enough.
I have mixed emotions about homeschooling:  I love many of the subjects heralded as “classical,” but that did […]

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