Our printable PDF kitchen handbook contains useful charts for keeping inventory of your fresh foods, pantry items, and freezer stock. It also includes useful weight and temperature conversions, beautiful menu planning sheets, recipe cards, and shopping lists that you can print time and time again.
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The Darling Dress Diaries Spring 2021 issue. Pretty frocks, accessories, and shoes to see you through the season of gentle sunshine. A curation of my favourite feminine finds, plus some special retailer discounts just for you.
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Wearing dresses doesn’t “define” femininity, or does it? A childhood spent denied of pretty things, and a living in generation devoted to skinny jeans finds this writer frustrated with her choices. Should she wear the dress and face the questions, or forever blend in and walk away from girlishness?
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In order to become a better housewife, you may need to cultivate your skills, yes, but we must prepare the ground before we plant our seeds for harvest. If the soil isn’t fertile, the crop will fail. Here are my five top tips to help you thrive in your role as a homemaker. Perfection not required!
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Is it even possible to live on one income today? One British couple went from having two incomes but barely able to save a penny - to a traditional one income family, an extra mouth to feed, a healthy house deposit saved, and are now financially thriving. Here’s how they did it.
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Manners, decorum, and good behaviour are the lynchpins of living a “traditional” lifestyle, but sadly some values are becoming a dying art. From the hearts of traditional ladies themselves, these are the etiquette essentials we are fighting for, and don’t want to see die out during our watch.
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Embracing contentment, simplicity, and learning to live traditionally - a recommended reading list to explore this wonderful, life-affirming subject over the coming year.
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This year’s pandemic has proven to us all that without a shadow of a doubt, our home matters more than we realised! How can we create a calming, and peaceful home that does good things for the environment too? Here are some sustainable homemaking choices I’ll be keeping in the coming year.
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Join me for a virtual visit over in Ireland with Niamh of Fairyland Cottage. It’s a lovely discussion on journeying towards living simply, running a sustainable home, and the mindset and ultimate freedom of not caring about keeping up with the Joneses.
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“I hadn’t realised there was only one way to be a free woman, or a feminist for that matter. I missed the memo - housewives don’t count”. The things learned, lost, and gained in a year of advocating for traditional housewives, and their husbands.
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Festivities are coming, make sure they’re easy on your purse and the planet this Christmas. Here our our top tips for a budget-friendly, low waste, and sustainable holiday season.
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Fancy baking a biscuit to usher in a fancy husband this All Hallow’s Eve? This traditional recipe from Elizabethan times is not only tasty, but steeped in history. Spoiler alert: it’s pretty much gingerbread men, but let’s learn us some food history!
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