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Don’t make your bed!

Did you know?… Over 84 percent of American homes have dust mites? Ewwwww….Those pesky microscopic dirt bags that cause allergies in so many people, including my family, live in our beds, with us! They survive by eating our dead skin and we get allergic to their poop and their corpse (grosssssss!). And they need at least 50 percent moisture in order to survive, according to a  study in Kingston University [...]

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“How to sew a button” Book Review and Giveaway

I don’t remember who taught me how to sew. I didn’t live near my grandmothers and in fact, my maternal grandmother passed away when I was only six years old. But I heard she made her living as a seamstress so may be it’s in my blood. One thing for sure though; I remember knowing how to sew, by hand and with a sewing machine, for as long as I [...]

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Thought for the week

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams~ Courtesy: Wikipedia Creative Commons

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Fabulous Friday Seller – My Patterned Mind

Cats or dogs? – Thanks to my mom, I’ve been a lover of cats all my life. At one point in time, we had five cats. Right now, I only have two furballs, and I’m fighting the urge to get them a little sister. lol. Star Wars or Sleepless in Seattle? – Oh definitely Sleepless in Seattle. It’s just my type of movie, the type that’s just perfect for curling [...]

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List of Green Women Bloggers

This post was really hard as there are so many great green blogs that I enjoy reading. But I wanted to come up with a list for Problogger’s challenge and needed to be very specific. So, I came up with some green blogs that are authored or owned by women and I came up with this list. If you are not on this list, don’t be offended; I just couldn’t [...]

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Wheat-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, red meat-free White Chili Recipe

This is a beginning of a second week of the elimination diet for my kids. They’ve been on this diet for 14 days for Emily and 8 days for Andrew. They are dying for a juicy steak and mashed potato with butter. Lots of butter. Or a big plate of spaghetti and meatball. And most of all, Clementine Oranges. Well, those dishes weren’t on the menu at Chez Karen. Instead, [...]

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Thought for the week

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags [...]

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – Feltsassy

We are back on track with the Fabulous Friday Featured Seller. Yay! As we get back to “normal” after the holidays, we have some new and exciting sellers planned so, come and visit often and leave some comment ♥’s. Feltsassy is the first feature of 2010 and I love what she does with felted wool. Feltsassy carries beautiful hair bows, brooches, fingerless gloves (great for this winter freeze we are [...]

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