Make your homemade envelopes amazing with this DIY envelope glue. Envelope glue is painted on the envelope flap and allowed to dry. It is moistened to seal the envelope just like with regular store-bought envelopes. While you can buy envelope glue in some office supply stores, it is hard to find and can be expensive. […]
25 Tips to Navigate your Non-Conformist, DiY Summer
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One problem makers and producers have that consumers don’t is summer. The kids are out of school. Everyone and his dog are at the beach, out on the lake, or planning to go to the cottage. Everyone that is except you and your family. You have a garden. You have a hay field, or a […]
25 Winter Read Alouds for long nights and short attention spans
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Traditional Christmas Read Alouds It’s a family tradition here at Joybilee Farm to spend the long winter nights, reading aloud. Beginning around December 10th and pushing into the dark nights of January and the first half of February, as soon as night time chores are finished, and even before the dinner dishes are done, we […]
Don’t Be Deceived. More Knowledge Won’t Help If You Aren’t Doing This
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Knowledge alone doesn’t empower I used to think that if I just gave my kids lots of knowledge, that would be enough. But I was wrong. Knowledge alone doesn’t empower right living. This is a lesson it took me more than 20 years to learn. When I first started homeschooling my 3 children, I followed […]
How To Use Fiverr To Supplement Your Homestead Income
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Meet Sarah Sarah is the face behind the daily Book Club post. She is a 20 year old, homeschooler, in her final semester of university at Moody Distance Learning, studying leadership. Sarah homeschooled from Kindergarten through her university degree. With just a few months left till graduation with her Bachelor of Science, Sarah has managed […]
9 tips for strategic time management on the homestead
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Give me more hours in my day When I was a young homesteader, with a couple of toddlers under foot, and a husband that worked more than 60 hours a week, time management wasn’t my forte. Don’t get me wrong. I tried. I tried really hard. I made lists religiously. I made to-do lists. I […]
Make a Rainbow Rice Bin for the toddler in your life
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Rainbow Rice: Turning plain white rice into an amazing creative toy When my youngest was 1, I noticed a sand table at the local kindergarten. The teacher explained to me that they were using sand in a classroom station that was meant for water. It allowed the students to measure and pour, learning while […]
First steps in Handspinning: How to make a CD spindle and start spinning your own yarn today
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At the beginning of our homeschool adventure, when my daughter was in grade 1, we read A Pioneer Story (published in the USA as A Pioneer Sampler) — and we came across the concept of handspinning yarn for the first time. The book talked about using a drop spindle to spin yarn and we decided […]
