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Easy Salsa Verde Recipe

Roasted tomatillo salsa verde (green salsa)

February 27, 2023 By Tanya Leave a Comment

I love green salsa. Like REALLY love it. Every time we go to a Mexican restaurant that is the first thing I look for. The runner up would be the refried beans. If the beans are good, everything will be good. At least that is my experience. I am sharing my homemade refried beans recipe…

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Filed Under: Gifts From The Kitchen, Recipes, Thrifty Living Tagged With: homestead, homesteading, howtomakegreensalsa, mexicanrecipes, salsaverderecipe, tomatillosalsa

Make your own backyard greenhouse

February 20, 2023 By Tanya Leave a Comment

This is the first year that I have ordered seeds and am trying to grow as much as I can with my own starts. Don’t get me wrong, starts are amazing, and you can plant right after your last freeze. The problem is that I have admittedly been very intimidated by seeds. It might sound…

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Filed Under: DIY, Garden, Thrifty Living Tagged With: diygreenhouse, greenhouse, homesteading, howtobuildagreenhouse, Organicgarden

How to make Antiqued Pottery Vessels

January 26, 2023 By Tanya Leave a Comment

I am so excited to be back after taking a few weeks off to share my latest DIY with you! I was planning on taking a brief break but life happens and we all got COVID which seems to be taking forever to fully recover from. But I am seeing more energy each day so…

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Filed Under: Boho Style, Craft Ideas, Decorating, DIY, home decor, Modern Decor, Table decor, Thrifty Living Tagged With: aged vases, aged vessel, anthroknockoff, Boho Style, budget decor, DIY, Farmhouse Style, howtoagepottery, potterybarnknockoff, twelveOeight

Mexican Wedding Cookies + a Christmas wish

December 21, 2022 By Tanya Leave a Comment

Hello friends! I cannot believe we are just a few days away from Christmas Day, I am reminded daily I need to finish wrapping gifts by a persistent 13 year old lest I forget how little time we have left 🙂 We saw the singing Christmas Tree at a local church this week, these folks…

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Filed Under: Baking, Christmas, Food Gifts, Gifts From The Kitchen, Thoughts, Thrifty Living Tagged With: Christmas, Cookie recipe, DIY, Mexicanweddingcookies, twelveOeight

How to make a Paper Gingerbread House Garland

December 3, 2022 By Tanya 16 Comments

Hello friends! I keep watching the forecast for snow but besides a couple of teeny flurries we have yet to see it actually snow. I am remaining hopeful as sometimes in Southwest WA we have no snow or we get a foot in February. It’s just how things are here lol 🙂 Are you all…

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Filed Under: Christmas, Craft Ideas, DIY, home decor, Thrifty Living Tagged With: Christmas, Christmascrafts, Christmasdecor, christmasgarland, DIY, gingerbread, papergingerbread, twelveOeight

How to make homemade Stromboli

Quick and easy weeknight Stromboli

November 28, 2022 By Tanya 2 Comments

Easy weeknight Stromboli recipe! #stromboli #savemoneyongroceries #budgetmeals #dinnerideas #italianrecipes

Filed Under: Recipes, Thrifty Living Tagged With: budgetmeals, cookingonabudget, howtomakestromboli, howtosavemoney, savemoneyongroceries, stromboli, strombolirecipe, thriftytips, twelveOeight, winterdinnerideas

How to make (thrifty) Copper Christmas Bells

November 21, 2022 By Tanya 12 Comments

Hello and happy Thanksgiving week!! Are you all ready to host or travel to your Thanksgiving destination? We are staying home and hosting at our house, ready? Not even close haha! 🙂 I like to try new things and move artwork and accessories all the time, so each year I have a few new things…

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Filed Under: Boho Style, Christmas, Craft Ideas, Decorating, DIY, home decor, Spray Paint 101, Thrifty Living Tagged With: brassbells, brassbellswallart, budget decor, christmasbells, christmascraft, Christmasdecor, copperbells, cowbells, DIY, harmonybells, potterybarnknockoff, twelveOeight

Easy Homemade Pickles

October 27, 2022 By Tanya 4 Comments

I did not grow any cucumbers this year but I love pickles, especially when I can make them very low in sodium. Low sodium pickles are pretty hard to find so I was super excited when I realized I can have as many of these as I want! I have been reading up on preserving…

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Filed Under: Clean Eating, Entertaining, Food Gifts, Garden, Gluten Free Recipes, How To Save Money, Summer, Thrifty Living, Tips & ideas for the home Tagged With: charcuterie, easy homemade pickles, how to make pickles, low sodium pickles, refrigerator pickles, relish tray

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Bars (dairy free)

October 19, 2022 By Tanya 2 Comments

Almost a year ago I found out that I had become very allergic to dairy. Thinking it was gluten for a while I was thrilled to return to the bakery for big crusty loaves of bread. But that meant cheese and I had to part ways. I was so happy to confirm why I was…

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Filed Under: Autumn, Baking, Fall, Food Gifts, Gifts From The Kitchen, Recipes, Thanksgiving, Thrifty Living Tagged With: cookie bars, dairy free, friendsgiving, pumpkin recipes, snickerdoodle, thanksgiving

Vintage look glittered jack-o-lantern

October 10, 2022 By Tanya 8 Comments

So I found this guy for $3.99 at Goodwill recently and it was half off day for purple tags, so this thrifting trip started out pretty good. Thrifting is one of those things you have to do often in seems. I have heard people say, I went once and I did not find anything. You…

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Filed Under: Autumn, DIY, Fall, Halloween, home decor, Thrifty Living Tagged With: DIY, halloween, halloweendecor, jackolantern, pumpkin, that70shouse, twelveoeightblog

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