Make your own DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet — a great “Easter Basket” for older girls and teens! This week’s Frugal Homemade features an easy DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet. Here, I made two: One small nail polish bouquet for a gift, and a larger nail polish bouquet for a fundraiser gift basket raffle. I’ve …
This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is: DIY Garden Markers. Choose from two different types — both are easy, inexpensive, and get the job done! Since so many of us do our planting over Mother’s Day weekend, I thought this would be a quick, fun project that you could do with the kids (or even have …
This week’s Frugal Homemade features Gooey Bars: Another version of the Whatever-ya-have Cookies recipe from a few months ago, but this time in bar form. With toasted coconut. And caramel. How can you go wrong with chocolate, caramel, and toasted coconut? So, in the spirit of Cars Being in the Shop & the Stockpile Running …
This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Pasta with Shrimp, Caramelized Onions, Mushrooms, and Spinach. Since we have caramelized onions in ready supply, I’ve been experimenting in the kitchen. Last night I expanded upon the usual “shrimp pasta with cream sauce” and whipped up something a little more flavorful! Easy Weeknight Pasta with Shrimp, Caramelized Onions, …
This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Easy Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions. These are so easy, and so good! I first fell in love with caramelized onions at a Williams-Sonoma cooking class years (and years and years) ago and have been using them in recipes ever since. When there’s a great sale on onions I stock …
This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is… Spring Cleaning! If you can’t tell, I LOVE to organize. I don’t, however, love to clean, but that’s all part of it. Spring is in the air, so that means it’s time to give our homes a thorough cleaning before summer arrives and we’re all too busy. Here are …