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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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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Let us explore the counterculture of traditional living. Five steps to help you make better, slower, and considered decisions that will positively impact your home life, relationships, and self-esteem.
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The media are trying to cancel the housewife, and I refuse to let that happen.
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Sadly, announcing to your career’s advisor that your greatest ambition is to be “barefoot and pregnant” doesn’t seem to wash these days. Here are some ideal early career choices for young women who wish to be homemakers.
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After many requests to create one, we would like to introduce The Darling Academy Book Club - a virtual ‘tea and page-turning party’ happening over in our facebook group. It’s free to join, and a lovely place to hang out. Our lovely bride-to-be, and book club co-ordinator, Melanie, explains all…
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