Urban Homesteading.

This is the Dervaes Family. I’m friends with the oldest daughter Anais on Facebook. They are really down to earth people making their way on the path of self-sufficiency.

Thrifty Fun!

Redish and Black Hound’s tooth dress- $1.50

Black tank dress thingy- $1.00

Navy Blue Sweater Cover-up-$1.00

Me- rather happy!

 

I usually don’t find dresses I like at thrift stores. They are either not my size, have something wrong with them, or are not te style I’m looking for. I get all of my jean skirts there though. All but one I own, and that was the one I bought over Ebay.

If it’s at a store at over $5 (or unless I REALLY LIKE/ need it) I do not get it. At garage sales if it is over a dollar (or unless I REALLY LIKE/ need it) I do not get it.  I shop at the clearance racks. The ones where sometimes they don’t even bother to hang the clothes up nicely, in size order and color order. Who is gonna know anyways?

Do I have any thrifters out there that read my blog?

Happy thrifting!

Random is best late at night.

I made blueberry jam the other day. It’s kind of funny, I’m probably one of the only people my age who can say that and actually prove it.

I knit, I’m probably one of the only people my age who can say that and actually prove it.

I want to be a homemaker when I “grow up”. Not the homemaker you are probably thinking of who sits around and does laundry while watching her soaps waiting for the kids to get off the bus. I want  to be a keeper of the home. I want to make a safe haven for my family and whoever shall happen upon us. Hospitality is a spiritual gift afterall.

I honestly do not know why us girls don’t wear more skirts.  It’s like they think we can’t do anything in a skirt like all they are good for is sipping our tea and eating crummpets.  I know girls my age who drive tractors, plant gardens, milk goats, cook, clean, take care of children in skirts. Our foremothers have been doing this for quite sometime, so why are we complaining?

I was sitting around the fire with friends of mine, some were contemplating the aspects of dating and courtship. One young man protested something along these lines “What if you don’t like the first kiss?” I repiled to him “You would have nothing to compare it to!”

Buy used, safe the difference. New becomes old way too quickly.

Blueberry picking & End times

Well, well, what an interesting title.

 

I went blueberry picking today with Kayla at a farm that our friend’s family helps run. I made $6.50. I made more then Kayla. It was very fun. Put on a belt with a bucket and just make sure that they are ble and not purple or pink.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFFOd2U-SnY

I have been watching Perry Stone lately too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZFwKFndtg4. And reading some of David Wilkerson’s stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=618dZIJTBi4. Why does everyone clam up when someone brings up this subject?  Is it because we have so many different views? 

Well let me tell you one thing that you cannot deny. It is closer then yesterday and will be even more closer tommorow. When it comes, it comes and that is all there is to it. We need to equip ourselves to do the spiritual warfare needed to protect our minds.

 

Why do you think that there are prophets and passages even a whole book dedicated to it? To fill up empty pages? I think not!

Be ready! Even though we don’t know when it is happening. Sure, your whole physical life might do by without ever seeing it happen, but it might just be happening in 3…2…1…why are you denying the reality it is screaming for?

Proverbs 3:7

Getting ready for the 4th…

So I’ve got to go shopping for food for this weekend today. Aldi will be my first stop. Aldi- if you haven’t shopped there you probably should start.

They have discount everthing and the food isn’t spoiled or terrible either…it isn’t like what my friend from high school used to call Blue Knight “The Used Food Store”. It is very clean and well taken care of. Just to let you know the Duggars shop there too…

 

I went to JoAnn’s last night. I bought a sewing basket for my suff. My mom says I’m becoming quite the domestic goddess.

 

Don’t expect too many more updates. I’ll be gone all weekend and I don’t have internet access up at Higgins so have an amazing holiday weekend! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God.