"The counsel to have a year’s supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family’s storekeepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency … [and] God will sustain us through our trials." (James E. Faust)
This week I worked on a stitchery. A young girl from church made me a card that is hanging on the refrigerator.
So I thought it might be fun for her if I made it into a stitchery in the same colors and gave it back.
The stars she drew on the front of the card I included in the final.
She was really surprised and so was her mom.
It was a very nice break as stitchery is very soothing to me.
https://albertametis.com/app/uploads/2021/08/Embroidery-Booklet-August-9.pdf
These are helpful if you are wanting to embroider.
I saved our kids' artwork and made them into stitcheries. I did one version into pillows for the kids and another into pictures for our wall of the same as their pillows.
Notice I used the colors that the kids used, just like I did for my young friend.
Here are the ones I made for us from our kids' artwork.
The one with a leaf was not her artwork but shows she gave us this talk when she was little that I made into a stitchery. We have the originals of all these.
The one with a big bird was one where Sarah wrote and drew in her school journal and the teacher wrote what her letters meant. "We went to the ocean to play that day and there were Seagulls on the beach." She must have felt they were very big...too cute!
I then wanted to tea stain ours. To do this, I heated a cup of water and put four cheap tea bags into this and let them steep. Then covered a cookie sheet with tinfoil and laid the stitchery on it. Then I took the tea bags and kind of pounced all around on the stitchery dipping in the tea water as needed till it was like I wanted, then I baked it in our oven at the lowest setting for about twelve min or till dry.
To get their artwork on the muslin, I held it up on a window (or if you have a light box) and traced off their pictures.
Then like I said, I used the colors they used.
This is a very inexpensive project to do...embroidery is a very inexpensive skill to have.
We noticed today the gas prices are creeping up again. Not a good thing for sure. We notice the town three miles from us usually has gas 20 cents cheaper than our town even though it's the same chain.
They are talking that prices will continue to climb, also not good.
So be working on your storage and your skill building.
That said, about skills - our bathroom faucet broke this week. We worked hard to try and repair it for about 3/4th of the day but it couldn't be repaired so my husband went on Facebook marketplace and found a faucet for fifteen dollars, where in a store they were running $80 and $179 - wow! When did they get so high? But we replaced the one that was unrepairable and it took the rest of the day.
I also wanted to show you how the ball winder I got from goodwill works.
I want to encourage you to stock up on only what you eat now and do it wisely. Just pick up a little extra when you go to the store - just do the best you can.
I want to encourage you to build a skill.
I want to encourage you that when something breaks, try to make the repair yourself if you can. It will save money. Clearly there will be things you cannot. But if you can try, it will help.
Missy says try hard to be as frugal as you can.
Tippy Longstockings says don't wear yourself out and rest often. Learn on YouTube what you need to then attempt the repair, then rest. She is a growing girlie and needs lots of rest.
