Archive for the ‘Homemade Gift Project’ Category

There’s a lot of stuff going on in my life right now, but I promise I’ll have some decent content within the week. Including a complete start-to-finish post about our homemade beer project, which has been a rousing success. The vanilla extract is also nearing completion, and a side-project for a friend will also be [...]

About a week ago I purchased a quarter pound of Vanilla bean pods from an online vanilla wholesaler, recommended on The Simple Dollar. The seller, Vanilla Products USA, had very reasonable prices. Since I’m only making one largeish jug (1.5 liters, to be precise) of the extract and bottling it into rather tiny bottles (which [...]

If you know me from reading this blog, you’ll probably be surprised to find out that I’m an avid reader of The Simple Dollar. It’s an interesting blog, and to someone who eventually wants to own a house, it’s a great resource on how to be an adult, financially (something I missed a few lessons [...]