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Thanks. :-) Good thing, though, that the apron project doesn't require me to worry about the breast darts (unlike the dress project) or else that would be a whole other question to ask.

To Miss Celane: Thanks for the links. :-) I'll go check them out. :-) (Thank God for this bulletin board --- the people here are so helpful!!!!)

One question Mrs. Hermit ---- does it matter if the...

This is the instructions I'm currently able to find on making a plain apron
http://shepherdshillhomestead.com/2011/08/08/how-to-make-a-plain-apron-2/
also at...

I made myself a bonnet no problem. I did a bit Internet research till I could (with relative confidence) take two measurements of my head. Based on that, I figured out the sizes of the pattern pieces...

Thanks for your responses everyone.

Even though the main thing I got from it is how direly important it is that within a few years I find a better way to live than as part of the machine.

I am a computer software-designer --- it's what I'm doing for a living. And though my long-term goal involves me no longer having to be a technocrat for a living, for now that goal is strictly...

Leftovers to eat as a characteristic of no-spend days?

I am *less* likely to eat leftovers on no-spend days - as those days I'm more likely to have *time* to *cook*.

All other factors being...

I'm considering starting another thread on the broader subject later on --- but I decided to do re-arranging both at the office and at home --- so that my computer is now at a high enough level that...

I have resolved never again to use Facebook to organize a group --- local or otherwise. The interfaces are horrible. If you want people to answer a question before you approve their membership,...

Yes ---- me, fear of having to survive again spiritually without the Institutional Church is one of my issues ---- not for geographical reasons, but for other reasons.

But my need to have the...

Once again --- I sincerely apologize for coming across as back-handed mean-spirited --- but trust me, the frustration I was experiencing was immense --- though I realize now it was a flaw in my own...

I apologize for coming across that way.

Mean-spiritedness is most assuredly not what I meant --- and I am sorry I came across as such.

I was suffering from extreme frustration at the time that...

I would like to thank Miss Cellane in her response to my starting this thread. Miss Cellane --- your response stood out not only in being the first response, but by far also the best response I got...

Granted, I am only familiar with the modern (post-Vatican-II) version of the Roman Catholic Divine Office. Probably I should get familiar with the old version as well (as I suppose it is to that...

I go to Mass every Sunday (or the vigil-mass on Saturday evening in it's place) unless I am somehow prevented from doing so (which is rarely the case, but far from never being the case).

When I...

Well ---- what I am trying to do is to bring God more into my life. Of course, God is omnipresent, but my awareness of Him isn't. Neither is my in-tunedness with Him.

Why the liturgy of the hours?...

I'm Catholic --- and I can't really say for certain whether that's because that's my true religion of calling, or if that's just because it's closer to Catholic than to anything else available around...

My story of simplicity?

I feel this is how God is calling me to live.

Also, I've seen more than I care to of where the road of extravagance leads --- and I don't want to go there. It's...

Around here? Unfortunately, I don't have any place I can hang them with direct sunlight. I wish I did --- but I don't, and there's no place where I can safely set that up. The endogarden probably...

Any suggestion for sanitarily hand-washing the washcloths that I use to take my daily sponge-bath? (Yes --- sometimes I shower still --- but only on days when I have to wash my hair --- the rest of...

I thank everyone so much for their suggestions!

As for the notion of me starting a blog/site --- that wasn't what I was thinking. I was more looking for a name for the kind of kitchen I was...

I wish there were a recipe site that had the option for finding recipes of a certain kind -- but to see if such a recipe site exists, I'd have to know what the proper name is for the kind of recipe...

I thank you all very much for your replies --- and in a few hours (or tomorrow) I look forward to tasting attempt #2 at my Spicy Tomato Pie. :-)

Okay --- let's say I have a new, experimental recipe that involves baking something. (Yes -- I love experimental recipes.) Let's also say that when it's done, I know that (next time around) it either...

I am so greatful for all the suggestions given! I'm so glad I found this place.