After months of excited planning, I recently started growing vegetables and flowers in a grow room in our basement. Overall, it has gone well and we will have lots ready to plant in the garden. I did, however, make one big mistake this first time starting seedlings in a grow …
My daughter started tagging along with me to craft fairs this past year, and I think she’s hooked. Ms. Tornado is excited about earning and saving up money. In anticipation of attending more craft fairs this year, we have been researching different products for her to make and sell. Craft …
Happy New Year from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead! We hope your holiday season was filled with joy and happy memories, and that you’re feeling refreshed and motivated for the wonderful year ahead of us. The past few months have been very busy for us, and we have a couple of very …
Greetings from our homestead! In the near decade since this blog was born, I’ve worked diligently to achieve better balance between work and so many other passions. Now, I have two ways to share some of my acquired skills and knowledge with everyone. As a New Years’ gift, I …
Welcome to my very first crochet pattern. I started doing a few craft fairs as a side hustle, and an excuse to crochet more! One of my biggest lessons learned, was that people really seem to want small purchases. In looking for a little octopus pattern, there were several that …
Back in 2016, we had just started on our journey to destroy our debt, while mapping out a plan to achieve financial semi-independence. A lot has changed since then, including the addition of twins and moving to a forever homestead. Have our goals or strategies changed too? What can we …
When we purchased our new home, with 16 acres, I was very hopeful that we would be able to forage some free food for our family of seven. There is now a garden with lots of delicious vegetables, but it was very exciting to find a few edible things already …
In February of 2020, we took our five kids on an epic RV road trip all over California. Our trip started off with a visit to my sister, near Los Angeles, and then it was time for the real adventure. Our first stops were the La Brea Tar Pits & …
Happy Summer! It’s time for a little update on our family’s journey to build a homestead that will support our dream of financial semi-independence, and all the things we enjoy along the way. Family The kids have been out of school for a couple of weeks now, and they …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about side hustles on this site, but we’re still always looking for ways to earn extra money. Frugal living only goes so far towards our dream of financial semi-independence. The other essential part of our plan is finding many different streams of income, …
