Happy birthday to me

One of things I get to experience by working at a shopping mall is the many stores I would not otherwise see. Shopping malls are not part of my purposeful, mostly real food, anti-commercial lifestyle. Part of my Frugal Family Examiner work has me bridging the consumer world with the low consumption lifestyle. All these…

Wax on, wax off

Isn’t the wax gorgeous? This batch of beeswax was just sold this afternoon and I wanted to share some cool info with you. Such as the man who requested this wax is a local woodworker, creating goods from reclaimed lumber. Very green, don’t you think? Keeping with the ‘green’ theme, he’s looking to condition his…

Standing at a crossroads

Yep, that describes me. Since our kitchen and bathroom remodel, Mr. TellBlast and I have been standing at a crossroad. By emptying one room and filling another, we stand between the two rooms and question all the stuff we have. By having one child move out for college, we stop in the thresh hold and…