How to make a homemade zesty Italian dressing mis recipe.  Use as a salad dressing, marinade, or in your favorite recipes. During the summer, I go through a lot of Italian dressing.  We use it on salads, in marinates, and for other summer recipes.   Even buying the packets and making my own was getting expensive.  I do buy generic, but there's just something about a good Italian dressing that most generic brands don't have. Homemade Zesty Italian Dressing Mix Recipe I started making my own homemade zesty Italian dressing mix recipe because it's much more economical.  I grow some of my own herbs, or I get them in bulk at an Amish bulk food store.   \ Even when I buy my herbs and spices, they are so much fresher than what is in the store.  This makes all of my food taste better. In the summer, I practically live on salads.  We have a garden, so I'm always picking right from the garden to serve with dinner.  I use Italian often because it's light.  I like

How to make a cute DIY felt storage basket.  These are easy to make, and you can use them to organize items on your desk or on a shelf.  Make them bigger to use in a closet or for larger items.   I think I like making and buying organizational supplies more than I like using them.  I needed a few smaller bins and couldn't find what I needed in the stores, so my daughter and I made these easy DIY felt storage baskets.   We made a few for her sewing supplies, and I wanted to use them for decorations too.  I put flowers in one, and I think it works perfect as a simple container for flowers. Since they are felt, you can paint the front to label them so you know what's in them.  Or paint a cute design on the front and just use them as a decoration.

Learn how to remove odors from furniture naturally plus get a fabric and linen spray recipe.  These natural cleaning tips will help you keep your fabric, including furniture, smelling great. I'm going to start my yearly clean and purge soon.  I usually take a few weeks and work on it slowly but steadily.  By the time I'm done, each surface will be clean and several bags of donation items will be gone. Three years ago, we finally splurged and got a new couch and recliners for the living room.  In almost 20 years of marriage, we had always had used or hand me down furniture.    Our kids were hard on furniture.  I can't tell you how many couches we lost because the boys would rock on them or stand next to them and rock.  (It's an autism thing.) The kids were older, so we finally felt comfortable buying new.  After shopping for furniture, we decided that furniture shopping was not something we enjoyed doing.  We ended up with a custom built sectional couch and two overstuff

Learn how to make quick and easy canned biscuit donuts.  These delicious doughnuts are ready in no time since you start with canned biscuits to make both donuts and donut holes.  You can enjoy them plain, glazed, iced, or dusted with sugar.   I heard about making donuts from canned biscuits a few years ago, but it was one of those things that we never got around to.  Since we are stuck at home right now, I thought it was time to cross that off of my bucket list. I picked up two cans of biscuits on my weekly shopping trip and then didn't have time to make them.  Typical, right? The kids knew what they were for and kept asking for them.  I was busy writing at my makeshift desk in the dining room.  My daughter asked me if she could make them.  So I grabbed my camera and we finally got to experience canned biscuit donuts.   I'd heard that these were good, but I was still pleasantly surprised when I bit into one.  For as quick, easy, and inexpensive as they are, I didn't expect

Learn how to make a mini greenhouse with upcycled materials to start seeds indoors.  This is an excellent activity for kids or adults, and it's perfect for the frugal gardener.  Plus get tips to help your seeds thrive, even if you've never planted seeds before. We plant a large garden each year.  Our four garden plots are bigger than our entire lot at our old house!   If we plant all four plots, it can cost several hundred dollars in plants and seeds.  We save money by planting directly from seeds in the garden and starting seeds indoors.  We've had good luck planting corn, radishes, green beans, and green onions seeds directly in the garden.  We get a great harvest each year with this method. For other plants, however, we have the best success starting seeds indoors and then moving them to the garden.  We start our green peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, and tomatoes inside in a mini greenhouse. We used to just plant the seeds, but we've had better succe