Practical Simplicity ~ For His Glory

Filling Your Hope Chest Part 4

Today I will discuss the last 2 ideas for filling your hope chest :

Recipes : You will always want to keep those cherished family recipes  safe and well organized so a couple ideas on how to organize those special recipes are :

1. Binder : I have a special cook book binder I bought from a local book store made especially for keeping those prized recipes safe and well organized and here is a photo of it below!

You can even transform a simple binder into a wonderful recipe binder as well with a few simple touches!

Also, recipes does not just mean cooking and baking, I am saving a binder for all of my home made house cleaning and body care recipes as well and the binder is so well for this too!  Making your very own house hold cleaning supply’s saves so much money and is worth the time to try some of them out!

1. Recipe Box : I also have one of these that I love to use as well!  If you have a brother, or dad who can do some wood working, this is a fun project they can do, or even teach you how to make and will create lots of sweet memories!  And the best part, you can decorate it to your heart’s content!

Now for the last and final idea to finish this segment :

Sewing Basket : Just having the extra needle and thread for fixing and mending a button less shirt or tear in a skirt is just two reasons why most young ladies should have a sewing basket. As you never know when you just might need those items inside!  I mend my father’s and brother’s shirts and pants whenever there in need of fixing and they are very grateful that I can help them in that area!   Whether you are an avid sewer like me, or just learning, or just wanting to know the basics of mending things the sewing basket is a wonderful addition to any hope chest!  Here are some ideas on items to put into a basic sewing basket : Needles, thread (go basic colors : black, white, navy, and brown for starters!), thread wax (to keep thread from twisting while hand sewing), thimble, buttons (again basic colors in various sizes), tape measure, 2 pairs of sissors (a small pair for cutting thread, and a larger pair for cutting fabric), seam ripper (this will become your best friend no matter how well you sew! J ), pins, safty pins, marking pens (usually in water soluble form, or one that dissaperes after a few minutes of aplying to fabric), and lots more, but these are what I can thik of off the top of my head! If you can think of any more, feel free to add them to your collection of audities in your basket! For the sewing basket itself, you can purchase one from a craft store, or just purchase a basket, and add the items to it, the possabilitys are endless!

Well, this is the end of another fun segment I enjoyed putting together for all of you dear readers, and I hope all of my post on this topic and all others have inspired you so far and give you a wide variety of things to put into your hope chest!  If you have a good idea about a topic you would like to see posted, just leave me a comment letting me know what it is, your input truly helps me greatly in writing these articles!

Blessings,

Miss. Antoinette K.

Filed under: Practical, Random, miscellaneous, sewing on January 19th, 2010