Crunchy Betty
Food on Your Face
Guess what? We’ve already passed the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. And that means – hooray! – Spring is really on it’s way.
You may be looking out your window now at piles of snow, but it’s not …
Dear Crunchy Betty,
I need for you to come up with a way to deceive my kids. Yes, indeedy. So many nights during bedtime I get the "Mommy, my hand is aching" or "Mommy, my toe feels weird. I need medicine."
And so I …
Traditionally witches were those folks, mostly poor &/or older women, who just didn't fit in with their medieval neighbors. Their crimes included healing with herbs, having pets & helping birth babies. Oh, & …
I wrote this when I was 36 years old.
By the time you read it, I will be 37. In mere hours, I will have aged an entire year.
It's high time we start marking our passing of time not in years, but in minutes. The …
During the winter season, my house is never empty of ginger. It's a must-have for cough and cold season, as well as any tummy upsets that might sneak up. Also, it's delicious. And spicy.
Spicylicious.
It looks like …
Claire, if you're reading this, please continue to pay attention. You, especially, will enjoy this story.
"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is …
I've said it before, and I'll say it a million times more. Crunchy Betty is blessed with the best readers ever to grace the earth. Not a day goes by that I don't receive a sweet, thankful email that melts my heart.
And …
Today we have a special treat from Bonnie at Hungry Chicken Homestead. I first met Bonnie at a local community swap, and she's a vivacious urban homesteader with an infinite amount of homesteading wisdom behind her. Here's …
Timing is really everything, isn't it?
Were it not for timing, a delicious sequence of events that brought you to a special place in time, you wouldn't have met your significant other or even your best friend. Without the …
Somewhere around 10 years ago, the saying "everything in moderation" probably meant something different to most of you than it does now.
Back then, "moderation" was eating low-fat chips and drinking nonfat milk while …
Imagine if you took the amazing cleaning power of grapefruit, combined it with the kazowwy wowwy magic of baking soda and added in some supercalifragilistic borax? (Yes. This is my interpretation of a cheesy cleaner …
You've been affected by cancer. In some way. Haven't you?
Maybe it was your mother, or your best friend's uncle, or you dealt with it personally, undergoing rounds of chemo and wondering when it would end.
None of us …
Fickle.
I'm pretty sure that's what I am. Fickle. Because at some point, I said that this was my favorite project, and this, and then probably this. Really, you can assume that any project in which I don't totally screw …
WARNING: This post contains artistic nude paintings and sculptures from historically famous artists. If this kind of thing upsets or offends you, please read no further. There is no vulgarity; just depictions of the female …
I'm on the outs with biscuits right now.
Biscuits are the reason I am burned. Biscuits are the cause of all of my corporeal suffering in these last few days. But, dang, were they good.
I was going to take a picture and …
If you've ever felt frustrated with finding natural solutions to your beauty problems ...
If you've ever thought about throwing in the towel ...
If you've ever contemplated how much you wish you weren't the way you are …
Confession: We didn't even scratch the surface of what I wanted to cover about different hair care methods, so be looking for more hair stuff on the blog very soon. Specifically: A natural hairspray method and unconventional …
No need to dilly dally with chit chat here today. Many of you jumped right in and started making your hot oil hair treatment yesterday, so you're pumped and ready to go.
If you missed part one, here it is again for your …
As I write this, at noon on a Tuesday, my hair is covered in the hot oil treatment you see pictured in this post. My locks are topped with the pink shower cap. The sun is shining and it feels like spring in January. My cat …
Every child has a little chemist inside. That brainy, inquisitive spark that tells them to mix certain unrelated liquids together and see what happens. Most of the time, it's things like glue and orange juice. Or toilet …
The holidays bring me to a full stop.
For an entire year, your life is going ... you have direction. Things are flowing in a neat and organic order. But without fail, every year, my life comes to a stop while I deal with …
Ahhhhh ... it's now time. Time for the craziness and the traveling and the family.
And the Quelf.
(You want to play that game. I promise.)
There will be a post here and there around these parts over the next couple …
It is the season of giving, and goodness knows that many of us are looking into a well of empty bank accounts already, but we are fortunate. We are. Look around you. Smile. See all the things you have? The love and …
In the Myers-Briggs world, I'm an INFP. This means I'm crazy, but in a mostly self-contained way. It also means I think for a long, long, long time about really deep things that probably have no applicable meaning in the …
