Homemaker Extraordinaire.

for example: i know how much most of us adore baking bread from scratch. did y’all know you can make your own butter relatively from scratch as well? all you need is cream from the grocery store and a jar and the ability to shake the shit out of it. a super simplified version of a butter churn.

you can make dyes at home with nothing more than a few choice plants. depending on where you live, of course– here in the south, black walnuts are everywhere, and those make an awesome brown dye with nothing more than some water and the nuts. doesn’t even need a mordant (depending on the fiber of the cloth you’re dying)

you can make your own firestarter or glue with pine sap (which is also useful for a whole host of other things!) and a diy double-boiler (which can be as simple as what i do– an old pot and a few sheets of tin foil)

you can spin your own yarn using the oldest known method of creating fibers: a drop spindle. get yourself some wool from a local farmer or a craft store and get to spinning (just don’t get frustrated when it back-twists!)– there are TONS of tutorials for diy drop spindles out there, too, most of which can be made with things like pencils and old cd’s 

there are a ton of other historical skills that may require a bit more tools and research, but they fit right into the niche interests of alot of y’all i see on here talking about providing for yourself and farm skills, that kind of stuff. 

things like basket weaving, broom making, canning, knitting and crocheting, hell even making your own rope (not recommended unless you have the patience of a saint), open hearth cooking, simple pottery, quilting, splitting wood and woodworking, chair caning… not to mention the vast doors that open when you get your hands on a bit of simple carpentry experience.

 Actually most of the time it isn’t. It’s having dust all over you, mountains of dishes that can seem to load themselves into the dishwasher because you have too many guests, and you also need to talk to them. It’s your recipe going wrong and having a flat meringue for dessert or burning down your dish because you were doing 3 things at the same time.

It’s ok. Because being a homemaker isn’t about the image you give but about the satisfaction you feel when the people you take care of are glowing and happy. It’s about the love you spread.

vintage charm