Fun Projects and Encouraging Links

If you know me, you know I adore the practical. So I am sharing just a few inspirational spots I’ve been fortunate to stumble upon:

• Paper cup wreath from Everyday Celebrating
• Learning to Listen Carefully from the new Doorposts blog. What we are doing in our home this week!
• Beautiful Ideas My friend, Phyllis, inspires me. I could put my feet up and sit a spell here. Then want to jump up to do these projects.
• Household Ways Phyllis does it again. How did I miss this treasure for so long?
• Peel Back Stress and Find Joy At the Moonboat Café
• Ten Beautiful Fabric Flower Tutorials at Skip to My Lou
• Fun meals and more with frozen bread dough from Southern Plate

• Craft Room in a Dresser from our own Writing About the Journey
• 50 Fabulous “How to” Free-sources from Angela at Heart of the Matter
• Refrigerator Raisin Bran Muffins from Brandy – using a box of Raisin Bran!
• An Evening Stroll from Jamie at Educating Mother – Hodgepodgedad and I do this too.
• April 2011 Recipes – for showers, for Easter, for spring – a host of recipes from Southern Living
• World Geography for High School – Barb-Harmony Art Mom is so kind to share a free download of her plans
• Around the Web – from our own Littlesanctuary
• Five Ways to Encourage Young Homemakers from Raising Homemakers
• Mom’s Tip of the Day #30 from Mom Seriously

• Rainy Day Cookies and a Movie from our own Daisy Muse
• The Drought is Almost Over from our own Sherri’s Thoughts
• Chicken Riddle Soup from our own Sonflower
• God’s Creation resources from our own The One Thing
• How to Get Kids to Eat Their Veggies from our own Frogs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

• The Habit of Using Coupons from our own Heidi’s Miscellany
  

From the Habits for a Happy Home archives…

• The habit of Having Your Kids Create and Think from Angie
• What he must be – the habit of being picky from Littlesanctuary
• Getting away – part one and part two from Kendra
• Redeeming the time from Kerri
• Mama on Vacation: Surf and Turf – maybe some ideas for spring break?

How about you. What have you run across lately that inspires?

-Tricia homeschools five children from preschool to middle school. She’s forsaken life in the drive thru lane for the road home. She’s saving bucks and her sanity with the frugal recipes and sock it away strategies of her Southern roots. You can find her facing that daily dose of chaos at Hodgepodge. Tricia is a.k.a. Hodgepodgemom.