Home Ec 101

Home Ec 101 is a smart, sassy site with a retro style that is all about housekeeping with a catchy tagline: "What You Wish Your Mama Taught You".

The site offers loads of useful tips and practical information such as a Bread Making Tutorial: Basic White Bread or a Frugal tip: Cutting up a whole chicken, plus handy cleaning tips, a 'Ms. Fix-it' feature with useful advice, and a section about doing laundry with washing tips.

Gomestic

The Gomestic website provides lots of informative articles about a variety of domestic topics including Family, Personal Finance, Cooking, Homemaking, Gardening plus lots more. Gomestic is a user powered website and welcomes reader participation and comments.

If you have interesting tips or ideas you would like to share, you can sign up to write something for Gomestic and earn royalties for your work by submitting your article to be published on the site.

The Lazy Organizer blog

The Lazy Organizer is an inspiring blog by Lara Gallagher. If you are looking for ideas about how to get your house organized and tips for making your life easier, Lara's friendly blog will be helpful.

The Yvestown Blog

The Yvestown Blog is written by Yvonne Eijkenduijn from her home in The Netherlands.

Yvonne's beautiful blog offers lots of crafty ideas and inspiration for creating a lovely home.

There is no place like home - a blog

There is no place like home is a blog written by Kelli, a Canadian expat living in Texas.

Kelli's lovely blog offers inspiration for decorating your home, clever craft ideas and lots of great recipes.

Ideas for making your house a home

So you wannabee a Domestik Goddess?, written by Rebecca Leaman, is a fun blog "about helping you to create a living space that reflects your own unique personality and style."

Rebecca's blog provides lots of creative ideas and inspiration about making your house a home plus ideas for your garden. She also provides clever craft ideas and recipes such as Easy Old-Fashioned Cinnamon Rolls.

The Sewing Patterns Website

Sewing Freebies offers exactly what it says - FREE sewing patterns!

There are hundreds of free sewing patterns listed on Sewing Freebies: appliqué patterns, baby quilt patterns, bib patterns, preemie patterns,patterns for baby clothes sorted in age categories, patterns for adults and children's clothes, doll patterns, curtains/window treatment patterns, fleece patterns, quilt patterns, patterns for stuffed animals, and lots of other sewing projects.

Retro Housewife

Retro Housewife is a fun and useful site with HOUSEWIFE ADVICE & TIPS and features about Retro Furniture, Retro Fashion and The Retro Housewife Forum.

There's a retro housewife blog too, called Retro Housewife and The Ladies who Lunch - "A Blog for the ladies who are housewives by profession".

Homemaking: tips & advice

Keeping the Castle (clever name!) is a useful blog that provides "Tips, advice, and resources on housekeeping and homemaking."

Living on a Dime: "Making the most of what you have"

Living On A Dime provides lots of practical tips and advice about frugal living, budgeting and homemaking. You can find lots of free money saving recipes and useful money saving articles.