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A New Blog

I started blogging a couple of years ago, and I have really enjoyed it. One thing that surprised me was how many people were interested in the dairy free recipes that I posted. I have toyed with the idea of splitting off my family posts from the recipe of posts, but I never did anything about it until now. 

I was asked to have a booth at an Ideas Fair for woman at our church. My booth is supposed to encourage woman with different ideas about homemade cleaning and personal products. As I was compiling recipes and info there was more that I wanted to say than I thought I could get on a handout so I branched off into a new blog. I am looking forward to having Simply Made Home be a fun place to write about being a real food nerd, making “Soft Scrub” or face wash, and other ideas I have about making things both simple and homemade.
I am not sure how this all will develop.  I may end up privatizing Life on Our Corner for friend and family and just have Simply Made Home be public.  I am not sure the details of all that yet.  Now I will just begin separating my family "look how the kids are growing" posts from the "try this new recipe" posts.  My mom will like that better anyway I think!  So here is the new blog.  Check it out!  http://simplymadehome.blogspot.com/

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  1. Your mom will like it as long as your "look how the kids are growing" posts are not fewer. :)
    I LOVE hearing about them and seeing pictures!! :)

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