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Since my brother came over to help out today, I got a lot more work done! Mostly sanding (so. much. sanding. 😳) but I got some pocket holes drilled for the bottom of the cabinet, and I re-assembled the top with more pocket holes so it doesn't flex anymore. And then I got the bottom shelf stained so it's ready for assembly! More pics for that layer. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtbv9qlJL_/?igshid=1i8nu6fz89jaw

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I don't know what I'm thinking, starting another project right now (I have about 5 stacked up) but here's the first step to finally refinishing my beloved cedar chest: removing the damaged ugly veneer.

It is a. long. process. But very satisfying. Almost like peeling Elmer's glue off your hand.

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Found this neat little pot marked down from $15 to $3.50 at Hobby Lobby, got a fern to put in it and then some river rocks from Dollar Tree to pull it all together.

Supplies: $10.50

Never Having To Water It: Priceless

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My photo is all over Twitter (shared by Rosie O'Donnell), gaining traction on Reddit, has 2.2k shares on Facebook, and was just on Fox News!! 😱

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TJ Maxx is open and social distancing is. over. [Located in North Central Arkansas]

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Enjoy a 5 second recap of an hour of work! 😂

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UPDATES: I’ve created an actual document for all these and split them up between child and adult resources. I’ll just be adding the adult resources here, but I’ll link to the child resources as well HERE.

Free Online Ballet Classes - (Obviously, because it’s ballet, some resources contain some Russian or Polish language)

Good News Movement (Only positive/good news on Instagram!)

Bible Challenge By Christ Church Ladies Fellowship (Facebook group with nineteen thousand women reading through the Bible together and discussing it. A great place to go if you don't know where to start reading and to keep you going.)

Making Today Fun (Facebook group for entertaining and/or educational activities to do with children

Oriental Trading (Cheap arts, crafts, and party supplies. Free shipping until Thursday, 3/19/2020)

San Diego Zoo (Live cam collection for a variety of animals!)

Monterey Bay Aquarium (Live Cam Collection)

2 Months FREE Kindle Unlimited (From Amazon. Existing Kindle Unlimited subscribers are NOT eligible.)

Online Graphic Design Course (Free for the first 100 people to sign up. Usually $60/month. 9 spots still open!)

Live Stream of Ligonier Ministries National Conference - Made in the Image of God (Their teaching resources have been made available for free as well right now.)

Centre of Excellence (Lots of online courses for cool things. All courses are temporarily marked down to about $33 with the code UPSKILL)

Virtual Rides from Disney World & Disneyland (Visit your favorite theme park while they’re closed! Great if you have VR goggles too.)

Online AA Meetings

Resources For Quarantine/Self-Isolation:

Unemployment Insurance (Start here if your employment has been affected by COVID-19)

2 Free Months of Skillshare (learn something new)

Lynda.com (One free trial month too all sorts of tech related classes. Web design, photography, marketing, animation, audio + music, business, etc. $30/month after the free trial.)

Groupon: Online Courses (Cheap access to all sorts of interesting courses: bartending, herbalist, concealed carry, etc.)

30 Days Of Yoga (On YouTube. Good for beginners to keep moving but not overdo it.)

Planet Fitness Live Work Out (Guided at home workouts streamed daily starting 3/16 on their Facebook page)

CARROT Fit (A snarky 7 minute at-home workout app made free to download for two weeks! Only available for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.)

Yoga, HIIT, Barre, and 7 min Workout Apps (Yoga Buddhi Co. has made all 5 of their apps free until April 1st. Android and iOS )

List Of YouTube Workout Channels For Kids

Camp NaNoWriMo (challenge yourself to write a novel in a month)

This Crazy Life (My favorite clean-with-me channel on YouTube. Watch 5 minutes and see if you don’t want to clean!)

Mental Health Quarantine Tips (from me!)

This Spring Cleaning Checklist (There’s a million, but here’s a thorough one)

Marco Polo (A great way to stay connected)

The Happy Broadcast (Follow them on Facebook and Instagram for positive news only)

Audit College Classes For Free

The Met Opera Stream (The Met will be streaming a new opera performace every night starting at 7:30pm ET. Streams will be available for 20 hours and are prerecorded. More info.)

OverDrive (An app to borrow eBooks from your library. Your local library may use a different app.)

Mental Health Quarantine Tips (from another tumblr user)

Tips For Studying In Quarantine

EveryPlate (Get meal supplies delivered to your door and practice your cooking skills)

Good and Clean Cookbook ($4/meal plans! Take the time to cook your own meals and save some $$ while you’re at it. Download the free pdf here.)

Cincinnati Zoo Live Stream (Every weekday they’ll livestream a different animal and an at-home activity at 3PM EDT)

Twelve Famous Virtual Museum Tours (pretty self explanatory)

Free Wifi And BroadBand From Spectrum (I’m not sure if this is for everyone or just students, but check it out if you don’t already have wifi. 60 days free!)

ABC Mouse (Offering free membership with code : SCHOOL7771 or AOFLUNICEF. Enter codes here.)

Adventure Academy (Owned by the same company as ABC Mouse, for ages 8-13. The same codes may work? 30 day free trial for sure.)

MysteryScience Most Popular Lessons (Completely digital with an activity for K-5th. More lessons available for access.)

Scholastic Daily Learn-From-Home (Daily lessons and activities for Pre-K through 6th grade. More info here.)

“Have Fun Teaching” Relief Packs (Free Coronavirus Relief Packs for Preschool through 5th Grade. Each download includes worksheets, activities, songs, and videos for all subjects.

HUGE List of Homeschool Resources (I don’t believe they’re all free, but there’s enough to go on for months!)

Outschool (Live online classes for ages 5-18. Also could be a good resource for teachers who don’t have anything to do)

Another List Of Home Education Resources (Some may be repeated from this list, but it looks like most of these are geared towards middle school up to adults. Most are free)

Kids Discover Free Articles (Covering a huge range of topics. Must sign up for a free account for access.)

Free Art Lessons On YouTube List (Looks like these is appropriate for Kindergarten through High School/Adults)

Free YouTube Channels For Homeschooling List

NearPod For Parents (May not be entirely free, or temporarily free, but it looks like it’s worth checking out!)

35 Activities For Kids At Home (For when it’s time to be done with school and have some fun! Good for toddler/younger kids)

Hopefully some of these help! Let me know if there’s anything I can add to it!

#covid_19 #covid19 #coronavirus #quarantine #social distancing #self isolation #mental health resources #cabin fever #free resources #homeschooling #homeschool #housewife #house spouse #stay at home mom #stay at home #wash your hands

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Resources For Quarantine/Self-Isolation:

EDIT: This link will take you to the master list that I'm updating almost daily!

Unemployment Insurance (Start here if your employment has been affected by COVID-19)

2 Free Months of Skillshare (learn something new)

Lynda.com (One free trial month too all sorts of tech related classes. Web design, photography, marketing, animation, audio + music, business, etc. $30/month after the free trial.)

Groupon: Online Courses (Cheap access to all sorts of interesting courses: bartending, herbalist, concealed carry, etc.)

30 Days Of Yoga (On YouTube. Good for beginners to keep moving but not overdo it.)

Planet Fitness Live Work Out (Guided at home workouts streamed daily starting 3/16 on their Facebook page)

CARROT Fit (A snarky 7 minute at-home workout app made free to download for two weeks! Only available for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.)

Yoga, HIIT, Barre, and 7 min Workout Apps (Yoga Buddhi Co. has made all 5 of their apps free until April 1st. Android and iOS )

List Of YouTube Workout Channels For Kids

Camp NaNoWriMo (challenge yourself to write a novel in a month)

This Crazy Life (My favorite clean-with-me channel on YouTube. Watch 5 minutes and see if you don't want to clean!)

Mental Health Quarantine Tips (from me!)

This Spring Cleaning Checklist (There's a million, but here's a thorough one)

Marco Polo (A great way to stay connected)

The Happy Broadcast (Follow them on Facebook and Instagram for positive news only)

Audit College Classes For Free

The Met Opera Stream (The Met will be streaming a new opera performace every night starting at 7:30pm ET. Streams will be available for 20 hours and are prerecorded. More info.)

OverDrive (An app to borrow eBooks from your library. Your local library may use a different app.)

Mental Health Quarantine Tips (from another tumblr user)

Tips For Studying In Quarantine

EveryPlate (Get meal supplies delivered to your door and practice your cooking skills)

Good and Clean Cookbook ($4/meal plans! Take the time to cook your own meals and save some $$ while you're at it. Download the free pdf here.)

Cincinnati Zoo Live Stream (Every weekday they'll livestream a different animal and an at-home activity at 3PM EDT)

Twelve Famous Virtual Museum Tours (pretty self explanatory)

Free Wifi And BroadBand From Spectrum (I'm not sure if this is for everyone or just students, but check it out if you don't already have wifi. 60 days free!)

ABC Mouse (Offering free membership with code : SCHOOL7771 or AOFLUNICEF. Enter codes here.)

Adventure Academy (Owned by the same company as ABC Mouse, for ages 8-13. The same codes may work? 30 day free trial for sure.)

MysteryScience Most Popular Lessons (Completely digital with an activity for K-5th. More lessons available for access.)

Scholastic Daily Learn-From-Home (Daily lessons and activities for Pre-K through 6th grade. More info here.)

"Have Fun Teaching" Relief Packs (Free Coronavirus Relief Packs for Preschool through 5th Grade. Each download includes worksheets, activities, songs, and videos for all subjects.

HUGE List of Homeschool Resources (I don't believe they're all free, but there's enough to go on for months!)

Outschool (Live online classes for ages 5-18. Also could be a good resource for teachers who don’t have anything to do)

Another List Of Home Education Resources (Some may be repeated from this list, but it looks like most of these are geared towards middle school up to adults. Most are free)

Kids Discover Free Articles (Covering a huge range of topics. Must sign up for a free account for access.)

Free Art Lessons On YouTube List (Looks like these is appropriate for Kindergarten through High School/Adults)

Free YouTube Channels For Homeschooling List

NearPod For Parents (May not be entirely free, or temporarily free, but it looks like it’s worth checking out!)

35 Activities For Kids At Home (For when it’s time to be done with school and have some fun! Good for toddler/younger kids)

Hopefully some of these help! Let me know if there’s anything I can add to it!

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Mental Health Tips for self-isolation/quarantine: (from an extrovert who struggles to stay home)

- Set a routine for yourself: if you don't, your day will quickly devolve into pointless blob activity. Get something done each day.

- Try to avoid binge watching TV: Nothing saps motivation like binge watching. You get to the end of the day weirdly exhausted with nothing accomplished. It's demoralizing.

- Do some deep cleaning/organizing: You'll be much happier to spend time in your home if it's clean and neat. If you must binge, binge Marie Kondo or watch cleaning videos on YouTube. It's fantastic motivation. Plus it helps beat the germs.

- Open the windows/start fans: Fresh air or at least moving air makes the house feel open and alive. If it's gross outside, a nice breeze will still help.

- Facetime with friends and family: This will never be the same as actually getting out of the house, but some social interaction can help alleviate the cabin fever. Marco Polo (the app) is a great way to log some face to face time without having to stop everything you're in the middle of.

- Do something creative - Take this time to read a book, paint a picture, sketch, learn a new song, write a story (April is Camp Nanowrimo if you want to write a novel in a month and join a great community). Find YouTube videos to learn something new. Follow a Bob Ross tutorial on Microsoft Paint. Redesign your living room.

- Start a long project: Something you're excited to get working on each day. Again, a craft or organizational project is great for this. I like woodworking, personally.

- Try not to get sucked into the scrolling: Constantly refreshing and waiting for the next hot take or death toll update is going to take a toll on your mind. It will make you anxious and worried. Keep your mind on uplifting things. Whatever you put in your brain-tank is what it will run on.

- Eat well: Don't neglect your meals. Don't overeat. Don't snack constantly. Take the time to cook delicious and nutritious meals. Food is a huge moral factor. Drink plenty of water and take your vitamins.

- Keep your living space well lit: Your natural circadian rhythm (read: sleep cycle) needs plenty of natural light to stay regulated. If it's overcast outside, at least keep your lamps and overhead lights on during the daytime.

- Go to bed at a reasonable hour: Staying up late is super tempting if you have nowhere to be, but you can screw up your sleep patterns for weeks and really mess with your (physical and mental) health and wreak havoc on your immune system, which is the last thing you want.

- Don't nap all day: It might make the time seem to go by faster, but it's just going to mess with your sleep schedule (see above) and contribute to feelings of lethargy.

- Get outside as much as possible: If permitted, get some sunshine on the front porch, read a book on the back lawn. The fresh air, vitamin D and change of scenery will do you a world of good. Go for a drive even!

- Don't neglect personal hygiene - It's amazing how much a hot shower can improve your outlook on life. You'll be extra miserable if you're greasy and dirty and cooped up. Brush your teeth. Clip your nails. GIRL, wash your face. Heck, you have time. Do a face mask. Whiten your teeth.

- Listen to music: This is another good thing to help keep the house feeling alive. Try some new kinds of music. I've recently gotten interested in low-fi hiphop!

- Keep your brain excercised: Read those books you've been putting off, study a new subject (I recommend "radiation"), listen to podcasts, get yourself some math problems, do a crossword, or sudoku. Sign up for an online class. Groupon has some great vouchers for online courses!

- Strategize your screen time: Newton's first law of motion is "An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force". A lot of times we depend on outside forces to act on us to cue our next activity (e.g. bosses, schedules, appointments, teachers) but we stagnate when we're on our own. Screen time is particularly guilty of this, so try to keep it towards the end of the day and complete your more physical activities first. That way you're less likely to look up from your phone at 3PM and realize you haven't done anything yet.

- Change your scenery: Rearrange your furniture. Build a pillow fort. Redecorate. Hang a new painting you made. Do something to change things up and keep the house from getting monotonous.

- Stay Active: Play Kinect or Wii games. Work out at home, do yoga, follow some YouTube videos. Learn a new dance or style of dancing.

Obviously most of these are just generally good habits to have. The key is to stay productive, healthy and avoid stagnation at all costs. If you have any other tips/tricks or resources, let me know and maybe I can do a part 2!

Stay safe, wash your hands and may the TP be with you!

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These are less than $2 each, but they are single-handedly saving my cracked and bleeding lips in the dry winter weather.

And they're working better than

ChapStick

EOS

Blistex

Burt's Bees

#housewife #tradfem #self care #winter #homemaking #realistic homemaking #stay at home wife #stay at home mum #stay at home mom #stay hydrated #lippies #chapstick #soft lips #lipscrub

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Made my own bread dough today! Turned it into some ready made pizza crusts and this garlic bread braid!

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I've felt this concerning the wildfires in Australia. Of course it's terrible that half a billion animals have died and thousands of people have lost their homes. But I can't afford to give, and I'm no firefighter, and I have responsibilities at home. Resting in the sovereignty of God and praying for peace for Australia is all I have.

Meanwhile, I squeeze a little extra out of the budget to bless a friend with some diapers or to take someone out to lunch or clean the local pregnancy resource center or babysit a friend's child so she can spend some quality time with her husband. We do what we can as far as we can reach, as God leads us. I was not called to carry the weight of the world's sorrows on my shoulders. Jesus already did that. :)

“if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention” used to be such a powerful phrase but now it’s more accurate to say “if you’re not angry you’re probably exhausted by 5+ years of Panic Outrage Mode and are nearing the limit of your emotional range for reacting to this shit”

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I need more people to follow

Like/reblog if youre a tradfem/feminine aesthetic/homemaking blog or if you just post a lot of flowers.

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Let's be realistic here...

I too want a bunch of tiny bowls to hold spices in while im cooking but who’s gonna wash them....not I

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If you believe Instagram, you will have a perfect, glamorous life if you are a professional photographer. Even if you're a frazzled stay-at-home mom, your house and children will be just the right amount of dirty where it looks homey, and people sympathize, but aren't revolted. (Also, your messy bun will be just the right amount of messy and the fitness wear that LuLuLemon sent you to rep to your followers will fit perfectly and make you look like you work out regularly. And if you do, you'll still look great at the end because hey, you're wearing LuLuLemon!) Fortunately for the InstaGlammers, they make enough money to buy all organic foods, organic cleaning supplies and the perfect home decor so their clean white houses are always ready for an impromptu photo shoot about how grateful they are for ______.

I wrote this tirade post three years ago, when I was two months postpartum with my son. I was exhausted, operating on less than 3 hours of consecutive sleep, overwhelmed by my house, my cats had fleas and were destroying everything they could get their claws on each night, my husband was constantly sick and finances were stressing me out as I wasn't working, my husband couldn't get work, and our debt was building. In the midst of this, I was desperate to fit into this dress I hadn't gotten to wear yet. I had all but convinced myself during pregnancy that my body was ruined and I would never be beautiful again. Thus, two months after giving birth I squeezed myself into the dress, did my hair and makeup and took some personal glamour pictures.

Then I looked around and realized I'd spent 45 minutes getting ready and my house was still a disaster. I blamed it on the pressures of Instagram, but really, the problem was me. I had moved out from my parents house just over a year earlier and the learning curve for keeping a tidy house was STEEP, especially since my husband had zero standards for a home and was deeply depressed as well. Combined with my pregnancy exhaustion and debilitating morning sickness, I let every good habit my parents taught me go to the wayside.

I remember going to visit my grandparents-in-law and marveling that she kept such a clean house with just the two of them and wondering what her secret was. My mother wisely said that she just had more practice. I, being the doorkeeper of wisdom at 21yo, thought this was ridiculous and housekeeping was just work, not a skill. But 3 years later, my skills have improved. My house frequently looks the opposite of the pictures above. I'm kind of a mess, but things are tidy.

I'm learning to manage my time and my things better. There are still days when I walk out and feel overwhelmed by the to-do list, but I don't curl up on the couch to play video games and pretend my problems are gone nearly as often. Life is full of little hard decisions that need to be made over and over. Start making them now so the bigger ones are not as difficult.

One of the magical effects of tidying is confidence in your decision-making capacity. - Marie Kondo

In the same vein as my original post, I encourage you: don't be an Instagram influencer in a Hoarders home. Apply excellence in all areas of your life. And do it with me, because I'm definitely still learning and honing my skill.

And if you're new to homemaking (and bad at it), chin up. It does get easier. Keep at it, and your skills will improve!

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How long would it take me to pick this up?

10-15 minutes.

Am I going to take the time out of my limited (sick) nap window to do that?

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