Homemade V.S. Store Bought

[Diannastarr]

Made a cannister of Master Mix this morning. 8 cups of mixed flours, with the other dry ingredients. Marked it with what would need to be added to make: pancakes, biscuits, quick bread.

Easy Christmas gifts on a shoe string:

Plan to have grand kids over to make either cookies in a jar, or master mix for their parents. Will make fabric bags for each of the grand girls, and pot up a plant for GS. (He wants a plant for his room, so will do a nice pot, and maybe even a macrame hanger for it so it won't take up horizontal surface space.)

The adults in the family drew names out of a hat, so only one gift to buy. We will continue to buy simple gifts for the kids, though. It feels so great to be scaling back. And, it's good that our kids are on the same page about that!

THERE YA GO thats the way to do it, showing the kids how to be creative..! and i know your kids & Grand kids will never forget how you showed them a better happier way of life...!! and wow that is so wonderful your grand child wants a plant for his room..!! excellent...!! that speaks volumes of the better way he sees the world...!! !yeah make him a pot out of salt clay or real clay or another kind of clay & painted all up nice , then put a old pot with a water pan inside it...!there are places on line that show how to make poster paints..! and different kinds of clays , i love arts and crafts...HA

 

[Diannastarr]

I like yours better anyway!

RIGHT ON GO FOR IT...!!

 

[Diannastarr]

i save coffee cans & would make my own cookie jars, out of them for gift ideas you can cover them with cloth like red felt & make them look like big red santa boots, that was a good one , then cut out green leaves from green felt and red berry looking dots of the red and dress up the plastic lids any way you want like a stuffed santa hat & some cotton balls or make salt clay decorations on the plastic lids & fill with cookies or what ever you like , i gave away all my coffee cans to the grade school and told them how to do it & they had a blast..!!!!

 

[Diannastarr]

i have a few things that i re purposed, for my needs , this day i just could not find my hand chopper & wanted to make colslaw...lol.. so i cut a pickle jar lid & believe me its really sharp and worked great..!! the store that sells my eggs ,gives me green crates, and i have a tiny kitchen in my tiny house , and i was playing around to get an idea as to what it might look like but this is not the end result by any means ,its just the start, my camera soft wear can turn my pics into a drawing kinda look, so next pic is the drawing look i planned to use some thing like this for my next holiday cards, then here are my egg box labels , dare to be different HA..! right then my home made holiday card , that came from my garden made from some flying saucer squash & tiny tomatoes & the cloth was green but my cameras light thing back then was a bit off ...lol... i have some more ideas for good size holding cages , for free from stuff people toss out..! and that will last forever , so ill be back , but for now here are some free holiday chicken card ideas .

happy holidays all hope you had a happy..!!!

 

[cavemanrich]

I like these labels.....

 

[Diannastarr]

I like these labels.....

THANKS a lot they are my own original design .

 

[Diannastarr]

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OK im back just had to hunt down some pics in my files i lost, i make frames out of dried weeds , i also made a coocoo clock like this, this is my magic garden , it grew really hi...lol... making home made masks, a helpful chart of the egg development into a chick , cows in the car, snow in Arizona, an Arizona king snake my best friend he eats rattlers, bunnies & chicks like each other , a star baby is born ..lol... a fun way to make apple cake , free range bunny at the door wants a carrot, one of my Mastiff pups at 16 months old , it gets cold here in Bisbee az . town of Bisbee az 2017, my parrots x mas gift i found this metal ring & turned it into a perch for him

sorry still looking for the holding pens i make from old cooler cages, i will try to post a pic of how i make them soon .

 

[cavemanrich]

When I first saw , I figured he was after eggs.

 

[Diannastarr]

this is my self made fountain, i made it from all sizes of plastic planter bowls & a little giant water pump, i recommend little giant water pumps i my first one pumped water in this fountain for over 10 years winter & summer , then it died so i bough a different kind of water pump, it died in under 6 months so i went through about 6 more that were not little giant fountain pumps , and then i got a little giant pump and its been running 24/7 for the next 12 years, its still running now , in my over 20 year old fountain ...! so for little giant fountain pumps...!!! o yeah and that lattice like thing behind the fountain , i made from an old box spring i found in the dump , i added a few more sticks of wood & its been standing there since year 2000.

 

[Diannastarr]

When I first saw , I figured he was after eggs.