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Modern Home Economics: cultivating self-sufficiency and life skills for the modern age

Modern Home Economics

Self-Sufficiency and Life Skills for the Modern Age

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Shepherd’s Pie: Things to do with a Pound of Ground Beef

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I’m Kendra.

Sewist, knitter, reader, dancer. Wife. Lover of things vintage and retro.

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