Recently I went thrift store shopping and happened across a couple of big rolls of solid blue wallpaper. It was boring as wallpaper, but I decided it would probably make excellent thick, rich-feeling gift wrap. I snagged both rolls for the princely sum of $2. On a hunch, I scanned the next two thrift...
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Check out Good Morning America Food Editor Sarah Moulton’s Best Cookbooks of 2009 (video!) Notice a certain orange-covered book on that list?   To celebrate, I’m giving away 5 copies of  Family Feasts for $75 a Week.  To enter, comment and share a money saving tip of your own. —————— You know the drill. You...
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Welcome to the Owlhaven!  Click the recipes tab at the top of the page to get a preview of some of the 200 recipes in my book.  Also included are hundreds of frugal shopping tips, sure to save you money at the store. My cookbook is available at: amazon.com Barnes and Noble borders.com Christian...
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One night when I was watching TV very late, I came across a cooking show with Mark Bittman, where he described the easiest bread recipe ever.   Google sent me to this post at Steamy Kitchen.   I tried the recipe and loved it, and thought you might like it too.    The trick is...
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Here’s a simple affordable meal:  Egg drop soup Like crackers with your soup?  Try making your own Homemade crackers If you are contemplating raising a few chickens so you’ll have eggs all the time, here’s a simple chicken run plan.  (Pssst, hubby?  Pleeeease?) And finally, the grand-daddy of money-saving ideas:  112 ways to save...
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A few weeks ago I saw an adorable idea over at Grace Violet– a way to make a little girl’s skirt from a kitchen towel. I found some adorable spring-colored towels at WalMart ($2 each) and on Monday, when I was in extreme need of a doldrum-lifting activity, I finally got around to making...
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Wedding planning is progressing at full speed.  I’d love to share details, but am also working hard on keeping my daughter’s day hers, which means– sorry — keeping most of the planning under wraps until the big reveal.  It’s hard because I’m involved and I’m excited and I think they are coming up with...
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Wedding planning, book writing, and Missoula Children’s Theater (4 of my kids got parts!) are threatening to suck up all my time this week in the foreseeable future, so I thought I’d share a few links to sites that have captured some of my interest lately.  Please pretend this is an actual post.  Note: ...
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Awhile back someone gave me a recipe for a really easy dessert that you just dump into a pan in layers. Canned pineapple, canned cherries, a cake mix, and 2 sticks of butter were the main ingredients. Oh, it was good! Problem was, I never had cake mixes or canned cherries just sitting around....
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Just wanted to remind you all about the 30 Days of Nothing that I’m planning for September– a mere two weeks away. Details are here. Feel free to grab the button to mention it on your own site, whether or not you decide to play. Feel free to email me for the code (owlhaven...
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