cheap stuff | family | garden | new to me
Hand-Me-Down Seeds
It’s my first time to save seeds from my little garden. The little garden that could. I ordered heirloom seeds and a book on growing and harvesting seeds. When they…
cheap stuff | craft | new to me | photography | ttv photo
Contraption! Contraption!
This is my contraption for the argus cameras I bought a couple of weeks ago. I stayed up late watching Arrested Development and taping it together last night so I…
Souvenirs From Our Beach
Did last minute project before I leave for Maine. I saw at tutorial on Sea glass jewelry and decided to use some of the pieces I’ve been collecting with every…
cheap stuff | craft | music | new to me
Finally Tried It
This is something I’ve been wanting to try for a while but never could warp a record I bought at Goodwill. Even the stinkers are fun. But, I went shopping…
cheap stuff | my home | new to me | photography | ttv photo
First Argus Lens Photos
Taken with two different cameras (both only $15.) The first shot is with my clean argus 75, and the last with “as is.” Now I have to make a contraption.
Used is Good
This last weekend I finally convinced my daughter that shopping re-cycled is the most fun. Adam and I have been doing the Financial Peace thing to lower our cost of…
Just One Hitch…
Yee-ha! We got our pop up yesterday. This was something we’d wanted to do for a while but seemed out of our budgetary reach. But you know how a chance…
cheap stuff | garden | my home
Another Happy Ending
Finished our small budget recycled patio in time for the fourth. We used broken chunks of concrete from old foundations that we picked up on the side of the road…
camping | cheap stuff | homemaking | places | thinking out loud | travel
Father’s Day Camp-out
I love Dis’ Fam. It was a last minute trip so we took the only campground that offered tube rides and seemed fairly family friendly that we could get. It’s…
Hope Deferred
I love everything about backyards: hammocks, kids, dogs, cats, neighbors, grills, grass underfoot, moon and stars at dusk, charcoal, flowers, bubbles, water, rock collections, sand, picnics, lemonade, hide and seek,…