Simple Lives Thursday, #114

We have noticed that quite a few blogs are not linking back to one of the Simple Lives Thursday host blogs (see guideline #2, below). If this is you, please realize that this prevents us from choosing you as a featured blog. Thank you for linking back to us!

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 (for the time being, due to hosts taking breaks)

1. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
2. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
3. 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. Homemade Fruit Leather Roll-Ups by Riddle Love.
“I waited forever to make fruit leathers because I thought I needed official non-stick dehydrator sheets. Then I remembered how I used to peel the leathers off the wax and thought, why not dehydrate them right on the wax paper?“

2. DIY Sweatshirt to Baby Sleep Sack by Montana Solar Creations.
“We were given several baby sleep sacks as baby gifts last year but only one of them is big enough to fit our little nugget now. While I had my morning cup of coffee, I pondered what to do. Then an idea hit me: I could make an upcycled one! I remembered that I had a fleece sweatshirt in my upcyle pile. It is a little pilly but doesn’t have any holes so I figured it would work perfect.”

3. 4 Steps to Take Now for a Great 2013 Garden from Old World Garden Farms.
“What you do now and in the coming months can make a huge difference in the success of next year’s garden. Here are four things you can do NOW to really jump-start your 2013 garden.”