Winter is on it's way out but we still have plenty of cool days ahead - just perfect for a mug of hot chocolate! I love hot chocolate, but don't always love the sugar that comes with it. So, here is my recipe for a healthier hot chocolate fix..... My recipe (at the bottom of this post) uses raw cacao powder instead of cocoa (although you can use cocoa if you prefer) and is sweetened with my favourite go to natural sugar free sweetener - 100% organic pure Stevia. Cacao versus
This is a lovely vintage style printable I have made to share with you for free. It is for your personal use only - you cannot resell it or use it on any items you have for sale. To save the full size image to your computer simply download the unframed PDF version below. Print it out and frame it in a style that suits your room. It would look lovely in a bedroom. Let me know what you think of it and how you have used it. You may use the framed image of this print online if yo
Life on a farm presents you with daily opportunities to take a life lesson or two from the animals. I was watching how young animals interact with their world the other day, when everything to them is new. How they are fascinated by the simplest of things that we ignore, a leaf blowing in the wind, a bird on the fence. In discovering their world around them for the first time, they teach us a lesson we probably already knew that maybe got lost in the daily hustle and bustle o
Oh how I adored the antique store scales seen in so many vintage farmhouse kitchens. I looked online now and again and was delighted to finally find one on ebay that was the style I was looking for and was located in Australia. It was a Dayton scale from Dayton, Ohio USA, a company famous for it's scales which eventually became IBM. These scales are not easy to find in Australia, whereas in the US they are much more common. Unfortunately the scales were in bad shape, broken g