We built our own cottage from scratch. So we also designed the layout of our kitchen. When designing it, we knew it would be a tiny kitchen. And we had to figure out ways for it to have the essential…
Ways To Improve Your Hometead Garden Soil
I am working on my gardening skills. And one of the issues that needs attention is the health and quality of soil in my garden. Here are some ways that can improve garden and encourage a lush, green and colourful…
Uses For Wood Ash On The Homestead
While growing up in the countryside, I learned to use wood ash to scour pots and pans to make them shiny. Now, that I am embracing that frugal and old fashioned lifestyle again, I am happy to be learning more…
How I Find Joy In A Simple Life
For most of my life, I have been yearning for a simple life. But for a chapter of my life, I saw things differently. After running away from frugal upbringing in the countryside, I found temporary happiness in a fast…
Murphy’s Oil Soap Hacks And Uses
While on my journey to a slower, frugal and simple life, I am becoming more conscious about how I get things done around my little cottage. I grew up in the countryside doing things and learning to make a…
Tour My Cottage
Well… Hello there 🙂 Welcome to my little cottage. I am a frugal gal with an old fashioned soul journalling my journey of simplicity and frugality in a cozy wood cottage. Come on in and take a tour 🙂 The…
Down Memory Lane Series: The Old Country Cottage- A Safe Haven
I wish we had more photos of this good old cottage. My Mum was raised in it. And it became a safe haven for her and her children when she decided to start over life in the countryside. It was…
Memory Lane Series: The Journey Home
I was only about three years old… But I do remember. We were traveling from the home that both of our parents shared to the old country cottage that our mother grew up in. Mum was travelling with me and…
Little House Series: Frugal Living Tips From The Ingalls
It is quite a contrast when I look at the little money my family survived with in the countryside in my childhood days compared to how much resources and money modern life seem to require. Almost like the Ingalls family,…