May
27
Butterfly Garden
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Now is a great time to start a butterfly garden. By planting a few butterfly-attracting flowers together, you can create a space where (hopefully) a variety of butterflies will visit. If you have children, a butterfly garden is a great opportunity to observe nature and a good learning opportunity.
The more frugal way to create a butterfly garden is to use perennial flowers. The upfront cost is a bit higher, but the flowers will return each year bigger and better. The butterfly site contains a list of flowers for attracting butterflies along with other resources (like butterfly species in your state). A butterfly bush, salvia, daisies and marigolds (an annual) are the more common plants that you can find at your local garden center.
May
16
A New Creation
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”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” 2Cor 5:17
One year my daughter received a butterfly garden for her birthday. You send away for caterpillars and when they arrive, you watch them grow, pupate and finally turn into butterflies.
May
11
Finding the Balance
By Carrie | 1 Comment
I established this blog as an extension of The Christian Woman website because I wanted something a bit more interactive. The website covers a wide variety of topics of interest to Christian women, but I wanted this blog to be a bit more narrow in scope. I also wanted this blog to encompass my current interests – a sort of “where I am at right now” – but in a way that could benefit others.
May
10
Free Booklet on Healthy, Thrifty Meals
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Here is an interesting little booklet from the Department of Agriculture: Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals.
The tips are basically common-sense and nothing earth-shattering for anyone who tries to save money on groceries, but it’s free and has some basic recipes. Good for a beginner.
May
5
Being Good Stewards
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(Originally written in November 2005)
I was watching a news program yesterday that was talking about the Christmas shopping season. They mentioned a few items from the Neiman Marcus catalog for the rich of the rich, like a $75,000 handbag and a diamond-covered iPod case of which I don’t remember the cost. When I hear about those kinds of things, I just can’t understand why anyone would want to spend that much money on such frivolous items.
May
3
Starting Up
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This is the start up of a companion blog with The Christian Woman website. The topics will be similiar to the content found there (frugality, family, household, etc.).
My hope is that this blog will be a place where the women visiting the website can share their ideas through the comments section since there is no forum with the site.
While I am working out the template I will be posting some older writings of mine. Please stop by again.
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