Announcement… please re-read the simple guidelines for submission (below) so you can be sure your post matches the spirit and theme of this blog hop. Please do not submit giveaway posts. Also, please remember to link your post to one of the host blogs!
It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all 4 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it! Your Hosts
- Annette from Sustainable Eats
- Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
- Alicia from Culinary Bliss
- Me!
Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules
1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.
2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.
3. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. Keep your topics to fit our simple living theme of “consume less, produce more.” We will delete posts that don’t fit.
Featured Posts from Last Week’s Submissions
We really enjoy reading your posts each week! Featured post bloggers, please grab the badge above and display it on your site! Link it to one of the host blogs’ posts for the specific week that you were featured. Here are our picks from last week’s submissions. Thanks to all who participated — it is always hard to choose!
1. 12 Easy Steps to be Frugal and Green by Our Heavenly Homestead.
Maria shares a great list to starting your journey on a simple and frugal life.
2. Sourdough Starters and Homemade Tortillas by The Elliott Homestead.
A great tutorial on starting a sourdough starter and making your own tortillas at home.
3. A Christmas Homebirth by Simplify, Live, Love.
Michelle shares about her 4th birth at home, a water birth. A lovely story of a gentle birth with the snow falling outside!
4. Vintage Blankie Baby Quilt by Simply Homemaking.
Make a small blanket for a new baby out of vintage sheets and vintage hankies. It takes just a few hours!
It’s nice to meet you (virtually, at least!). This is my first Simple Lives Thursday. I’ve linked up my recipe for Twelfth Night Cake (no white flour or white sugar) and Escalopes de porc à la normande, which is a French dish with pork and apples in a brandy/cider/cream sauce.
I’m looking forward to getting a look into your archives. My husband has Spanish heritage, as well!
Thanks for linking up Lauren! I’m excited to look at your recipes! They look great 😀
Thanks so much for featuring my Christmas Homebirth blog post! I’m so excited and glad you liked it! Thank you.
Today I’m sharing a post from my archives about a barn we moved to our property (days before it was to be burned) and are in the process of restoring. We made great progress in 2011 and I can’t wait to see it finished. It will be offices, showroom, and workshop for our home remodeling business. The post I’ve shared details the move from its old home down a 1/4 mile to our own land.
Thanks for the love, Diana!
This is the time of year I start planning handmade gifts for next Christmas. So, I wanted to share the gifts I made this year in case anyone else needs some inspiration!
Hope all is well with the Baumans! 🙂
~Mara
That would be Maria! Glad I can spell my own name!