Crafting a Handmade Home
Make this aromatic and tasty vanilla infused honey in your Instant Pot® or electric pressure cooker in less than an hour! Make it for yourself or as a gift! I first made vanilla infused honey probably 30 years ago. My husband’s grandfather introduced me to the idea. But, he also liked jalapeño infused honey; which, at the time, I thought was a crazy idea! I
Explore the top 10 most popular sewing, crochet, printables and recipe ideas for a handmade home from The Birch Cottage in 2020. As we usher in another New Year, I always enjoy taking a look back at the past year on The Birch Cottage blog. So, grab yourself a cup of coffee, settle in to your favorite comfy chair and take a little trip down
This free to download Christmas Cookies Cookbook in PDF format contains over 60 recipes from the 1st Annual Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange. This blog post, Free Christmas Cookies Cookbook Download, originally appeared December 2, 2019 and has been updated with current pictures and links. I am so excited to make available the first ever Christmas Cookies Cookbook by The Birch Cottage. This cookbook is the
Learn how to subscribe, access and download files in the Subscribers Resource Library – which is full of free printables for subscribers. As you browse through The Birch Cottage blog, you’ll find all sorts of printables from gift tags, note cards, and care tags to jar labels, wall art and calendars, to crochet and sewing patterns and even SVG cut files – plus so much
Download this set of printable microwave safe baked potato bag care and use tags and include with your handmade baked potato bags. I am busy making handmade gifts for our seven children and their families. One of the handmade items I’ll be gifting this year are these microwave baked potato bags. Although the microwave is a fast and convenient way to make baked potatoes, they
Learn to make these easy DIY Pinecone Fire Starters using pinecones, tea candles and essential oils. Fire starters also make great stocking stuffers! This blog post originally appeared December 17, 2018 and was updated December 4, 2020 to update the printable how-to instructions. If you have visited the Subscribers Resource Library recently, you’ve probably seen these pinecone fire starter printables. (If you’d like access, you
Download this set of six printable microwave safe bowl cozy care tags and include with your handmade microwave safe bowl cozies. Through the years, I’ve created a number of different designs for the microwave safe bowl coziy care tags. These tags tell the recipient not only how to use their new microwave safe bowl cozy but also how to care for it. With the previous
Download and print this set of four winter themed PLEASE USE THE PROVIDED HAND SANITIZER prints for use in your home, office, school or workplace. I received an email from a reader who is a teacher from California named Christy who asked if I would consider creating a winter themed version of my Please Use the Provided Hand Sanitizer prints. So, I did. In fact,
With a collection of over 20 free printable Christmas Gift Tags you’re sure to find one or more designs for all your Christmas gift tag needs! I was talking to my husband the other day about The Birch Cottage blog, as I often do. I told him that I felt like there was a lot of older content that has just gotten lost. Take for
Get ready for 2021 with a free printable 2021 printable calendar featuring vintage fruit illustrations. This is my fourth year creating and sharing printable monthly calendars featuring vintage illustrations. In case you haven’t noticed, I seem to have a thing for these beautiful vintage illustrations. And, believe it or not, I think these vintage fruit illustrations just may be my favorite yet. DOWNLOAD THE 2021
Patriotic Thank You Note Cards are perfect for expressing our gratitude to those who have or are currently serving on Veterans Day or anytime. Veterans Day 2020 is Thursday, November 11, 2020. There’s no time like the present to remember those who have served or who are currently serving in our military. My husband and I never thought we’d be a “military family.” Neither he
This free printable Family & Friends Gather Here fall print makes for an easy way to add a touch of fall to your home decor. I just love fall and it’s beautiful display of muted yet vibrant colors, don’t you? In fact, just driving down my street, I can see autumn in all its glory. It’s as if mother nature is putting on a display
