One of my favourite things about autumn and winter is using our log burner in the living room. There is honestly nothing more cosy than watching a film, snuggled under patchwork quilts, with the fire crackling and flickering specks of reds and oranges around the room. Last winter, we seemed to use a lot of…
Category: Home making
Prolonging the Life of Cut Flowers
There is one thing I enjoy more than freshly cut roses, and that is freshly dried roses. To be honest, I love everything about roses, from their buds to their flowers to the rose hips they leave behind. Last week I spent a very happy afternoon drying some roses and their petals, decorating our home…
The Littlest Room in the House
I thought I'd post some photos of the upstairs loo in all its finished glory! There are still odd bits which would be nice to have - such as a charcoal bath mat instead of the white loo mat, but we'll get that next January when we cycle back to this room. Apart from that…
Home Making Goals – Five in Five
I feel I need to apologise for all my posts in the coming week. They will likely be boring for most of you to read. I want to write some goals down for the forthcoming term. I have in the past always written my schooling goals down but no others. This term I want to…
Home Making – Soap Nuts
Over the past year I have tried out many different recipes for home-made laundry soap. We have very hard water and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with any of them. At least I wasn't until this summer. I had come across soap nuts during one of my forays into the world-wide web and…
Home Making – Part of our New Curriculum
Home Making has always been a bit of a fluid process with us here at angelicscalliwags. I'm clueless, so it took me no time at all to pass on my extensive home making know-how. I began when the older ones were three. By three and a half they knew all I knew. I am naff,…