Skills are something no one can can take from us. They are lessons that we learn and can use whenever we need. We can use those skills to survive, make money, help others. This blog is about my journey to get back to basics. To try to relearn those skills my family has put on the back burner or might have never learned.
I am going to try a different skill each week. Topics will range from: cooking, mending, quilting, soap making, knitting, prepping (not bunker building prepping, but just getting things together for a rainy day kind of prepping), canning, candle making, etc.
Just so you know where I am coming from. I was born and raised in the suburbs of Indianapolis. My mom has always said she was born in the wrong decade. She loves crafts. Collecting crafts is a hobby of hers. She has learned cross stitch, basket weaving, quilting, crocheting, wood working and painting, doll making, scrapbooking, card making, stampmaking, and jewelry making. She has sold some of her work at craft shows, but mostly she likes to teach others or give them to friends and family for free. My paternal grandmother earned extra cash from making rugs on a loom. My paternal great grandmother sewed quilts by hand and hand made lace doilies. As you can see, I come from crafty stock.
The men of my family are not without skills too. My father's family came from rural areas so hunting, fishing, farming, gardening, and mushroom hunting were skills learned at a very young age.
I moved to South Florida a few years ago but I have not lost my Midwestern roots.
So this blog is a tribute to my ancestors and the ancestors that built this country in general.
