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Easy DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet

Make your own DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet — a great “Easter Basket” for older girls and teens! This week’s Frugal Homemade features an easy DIY Nail Polish Flower Bouquet. Here, I made two: One small nail polish bouquet for a gift, and a larger nail polish bouquet for a fundraiser gift basket raffle. I’ve …

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DIY Garden Markers + Gardening Puns Ahead — Lettuce Know If You Have Any to Share!

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is: DIY Garden Markers. Choose from two different types — both are easy, inexpensive, and get the job done! Since so many of us do our planting over Mother’s Day weekend, I thought this would be a quick, fun project that you could do with the kids (or even have …

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Easy Weeknight Pasta with Shrimp, Caramelized Onions, Mushrooms, and Spinach

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Pasta with Shrimp, Caramelized Onions, Mushrooms, and Spinach. Since we have caramelized onions in ready supply, I’ve been experimenting in the kitchen. Last night I expanded upon the usual “shrimp pasta with cream sauce” and whipped up something a little more flavorful! Easy Weeknight Pasta with Shrimp, Caramelized Onions, …

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Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions, plus a French Onion Soup Recipe!

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is Easy Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions. These are so easy, and so good! I first fell in love with caramelized onions at a Williams-Sonoma cooking class years (and years and years) ago and have been using them in recipes ever since. When there’s a great sale on onions I stock …

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Spring Cleaning Checklists — Frugal Homemade

This week’s Frugal Homemade feature is… Spring Cleaning! If you can’t tell, I LOVE to organize. I don’t, however, love to clean, but that’s all part of it. Spring is in the air, so that means it’s time to give our homes a thorough cleaning before summer arrives and we’re all too busy. Here are …

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