Our DIY Bath Salts!

Homemade/DIY Bath Salts Our Base Recipe: 1 cup Epsom salt 1/4 cup baking soda 1/4 cup sea salt Our Blends: lavender + bergamot eucalyptus + peppermint lavender + rosewater  lemon + rosemary This is a super inexpensive DIY project (minus the initial investment on the oils) and makes for a fun little "girls morning" craft! We bought the Epsom salt, sea salt and baking soda...

Old Windows!!!

So these babies have some crazy sentimental value... they are my great-great-great-great-grandparent's windows, from their original homestead from back in the early 1800's.  How awesome is that?! The best part is that I found them this past summer... in the original homestead (which is still standing, and is on my parent's land...it now serves as storage for all of our fun outdoor...

Homemade Applesauce

Comin' at ya with another ridiculously simple, and amazingly delicious recipe! Let's get right to it: Ingredients: 3lb bag of Gala apples (I use organic) 1/2 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp cinnamon Instructions: 1. Peel and chop apples into large chunks. 2. Put apples into a large pot (with a lid) and add about 1/3 cup water.  You really only want to have water that's...

Blackened Walleye

 It is truly as simple as that. I wanted to try and use our recipe for our very own "blackened chicken"... but at the same time I wanted the traditional buttery-lemon, baked fish taste in there as well. So, without having ANY clue as to how it would turn out, I came up with a concoction to combine the two!  Luckily, it turned out to be DELICIOUS! This specific recipe...

2016!!

The new year is always so exciting! I get to see how many times I have to do this: 2015 2016... (I hope I'm not alone in doing that until about March) ...and I also get to choose a few things I want to try and do differently this year! So here are my simple & attainable 2016 "resolutions": 1. Eat fish dinners 2-3 times per week. Aaron recently read in one of his nutrition books,...