Simple Lives Thursday #53

Thank you for coming by and linking up your post for Simple Lives Thursday blog hop!


Save The Date: SLT Twitter Chat!

There's a lot of great things in plan for our first twitter chat to celebrate one year of Simple Lives Thurday! Please save the date: 


Tuesday, July 26th at 2:30-3:30 Pacific Time / 4:30-5:30 Central Time


The hashtag for the event will be #simplelives. We've got some awesome giveaways lined up for the chat: a poster from Annette, homemade granola from Alicia, "The Herbal Kitchen" book by Kami McBride, a Punk Domestics t-shirt and the grand prize is a 6-month membership to the classes at GNOWGFLINS eCourse.


Make sure you follow us on Twitter to stay in the loop!


Alicia - @culinarybliss
Annette - @SustainableEat
Diana - @dianabauman
Mare - @marebeard
Wardeh - @WardenHarmon


After our Twitter chat, the hosts of SLT will be committed to one giveaway a month to our featured posts bloggers! So link up and share your inspirations with us for another year to come!

Top Five Featured Posts From Last Week's Submissions!

For our featured posts, please grab the badge above and display it on your site! Link it to one of the host blogs' posts for that specific week that you were featured. Thank you everybody for the awesome submissions... the posts that caught our attentions last week are:

1. Cooking With Heritage Breed Chickens by Homemade Alaska. This is a great guide on raising heritage breed chickens for meat as people did in days past.

2. Lavender Vinegar by The Purposed Heart. At least one of us, and probably more, can't wait to try this as a rinse for laundry AND hair. So simple and easy!

3. Canning CSA & Zucchini Relish by Little Blog on the Prairie. A great recipe and fantastic concept!

4. Homemade Bag Balm by Prairie Sunrise. Marg decided to make her own bag balm to save money and avoid petroleum based commercial bag balms. She says it was easy and cheap and we believe it!

5. Varicose Veins -- What To Do Naturally by Jo's Health Corner. Jo covers a broad range of natural treatments for mild to severe varicose veins.

Simple Lives Thursday Blog Hop
Woohoo! Congrats to those five! So, today is Simple Lives Thursday... A fun blog hop dedicated to anything and everything about simple living. Please share with us how are you living your life simply... we all want to know!


There is so much to learn about living simply these days... making lacto-ferments, raising animals, living off-grid, cooking with real food, gardening, raising family, homeschooling, homemade body products, natural cleaners, frugal ways, creating art with recycled materials, homesteading, homeopathy, growing herbs for health and much more!


Simply hosted by:

• Wardeh @ GNOWFGLINS
• Diana @ A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa
• Annette @ Sustainable Eats
• Alicia @ Culinary Bliss
• And me... the Noisy Mama  :o)

Be Simple and Share Your Post!

Make your "Simple Lives Thursday" post on your blog and come back here. Below you will find the Linky box where you can post your simple ideas, tips & recipes. Please add a link to this post at the end of your blog post entry and share with your readers that it is part of this week's Simple Lives Thursday. Feel free to download the badge above and upload it to your post!

Also, when you link here... your post will appear on all five blogs!

For those who don't have blogs... Please share your ideas, tips and recipes about simple living below in my noisy comments area. Don't get left out!

Everybody, take the time to visit the linked blogs. Sharing your favorites on Facebook or Tweet would be awesome! Spread the wealth of simple living!

Please Read & Follow the Rules

Since Simple Lives Thursday is growing, as a group, the five hosts have decided to set some ground rules in order to keep the integrity of the blog hop.

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of "nourishing" food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

Hugs!