Year: 2015
Making Your Own Herbal Tea ~ Step 1: Collecting & Drying
by Alecia Rolling While living in Germany, I was exposed to high-quality teas that could be bought in bulk. After returning to the U.S., I yearned for those same teas. I have now been making my own herbal and fruit teas for several years, and my dear friend requested that…
Free Coloring Page ~ The Blessed Trinity
Painting with Homemade Paint ~ A great practice run!
By Alecia Rolling We are working on iconography this year, so we also decided to make our own paint! This was quite the learning experience. After trial and error we successfully mixed spices, oils, vinegar, and flour together to make paint. The most successful colors were brown made from leftover…
Making Homemade Yogurt the Easy Way
By Alecia Rolling This is too simple and saves! We put 1/4-1/2 cup organic yogurt in a quart-jar. Then, we fill the jar with whole milk. Atop the jar we place a piece of fabric and a jar-ring, so the culture can “breathe”. The jar is finally wrapped in a…
Building Virtues In Our Children
Free Coloring Page ~ Immaculate Conception/Our Lady of Lourdes/Mary
For the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, I really wanted a coloring page that was free to print. I decided to draw one myself. Catholic Icing has a nice coloring page that shows Our Lady in the womb of Saint Anne, and she is being blessed with the grace of…
A Mother Building a Cold Frame ~ It is Possible!
by Alecia Rolling, originally posted at www.therollingacresfarm.com on April 12, 2012 A few years ago, I built a cold-frame for my spring seedlings, and it has since become a mainstay in our garden. Yes, I built it myself, using a handsaw, screws, and a screwdriver! In other words, you need…
When the “Sky is on Fire” ~ A Sunset to Remember
In the book “Heidi”, little Heidi describes the sunset as the time of day when “the sky is on fire”. When we read this book back in September, the children wondered what that phrase truly meant. Well, we finally had such an event as our sky catching on fire.
Dessert Pizza with Chocolate Chips and Bananas
By Alecia Rolling This was a very simple recipe. We rolled out our homemade pizza dough, covered it with butter and brown sugar. Sliced bananas onto the top and sprinkled chocolate chips all around. A handful of oatmeal and a drizzling of sweetened evaporated milk finished it off! We baked…