by Parisienne Farmgirl | Oct 19, 2016 | A Well Kept Home
I’m writing today in response to the “how do you do it all” emails. I’ll tell you this… I don’t do it all. No one does. When one thing excels, another suffers, no matter how much of a rock star you think you are. BUT, I do find it...
by Parisienne Farmgirl | Jan 27, 2016 | A Well Kept Home, The Home Economist
I love Instagram. But what does that have to do with my Homemade Laundry Detergent with Whitener Recipe? Allow me to backtrack. I posted in my “Debt” post the other day that during our plan of attack I got rid of my cell phone. I hated that thing...
by Parisienne Farmgirl | Aug 17, 2015 | A Well Kept Home, The Home Economist
The time had come. Twice a year I clean my copper. I do love the patina but by the time half-a-year rolls around it’s time to spruce it up a bit… I mean wow. Those pots and pans take a beating. Bacon grease… dust… daily use. Did I mention bacon...
by Parisienne Farmgirl | Jul 29, 2015 | A Well Kept Home, The Home Economist
I love aprons. I love the mess of them hanging on my laundry room door. (Hello! – I love the stencil on my laundry room door.) I love buying them, old, stiff and starched to the nines, I love making my own starch and pressing mine, patiently with a fire-hot...
by Parisienne Farmgirl | Jan 17, 2015 | A Well Kept Home, Recipes
How to clean a mortar and pestle? Kitchen gadgets thrill me and I LOVE my mortar and pestle. I see out reasons to use it. Back story – We raise organic chickens for meat here on Half-Way Farm… la Ferme a Mi-Chemin and we barter with other people for some...
by Parisienne Farmgirl | Apr 9, 2013 | A Well Kept Home, On Motherhood
“I don’t know how you do it with four, and one on the way. I have one and I am loosing my mind.” Someone said this to me about three weeks ago. I stuttered. I didn’t know what to say. It’s not like I have NINE children. I mean,...
