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Yesterday was the Simple Living Toowoomba October workshop…Sourdough. It was delicious 🙂

But it reminded me that maybe I haven’t mentioned Simple Living Toowoomba before on this website? And it seems like more and more people are getting interested in learning some DIY skills, especially due to health reasons…like when you start reacting to chemicals in food, cleaning or beauty products and wonder what alternative you have.

Or maybe you’re looking to save money…learning to DIY items that you are presently probably paying to much for is really empowering and cheaper than you’d think.

Simple Living Toowoomba meets one Saturday morning a month with the purpose of passing on basic skills in a variety of areas. It started out as a cooking class, but now goes way beyond food. Local people sharing skills with other locals.

So, sample classes are

• Rag rugs
• Knitting
• Sewing
• Crocheting
• Cooking from scratch
• Building a chook shed
• Growing vegies
• Soap making
• Bread making
• Jam making
• Reupholstering a chair
• Basic home maintenance
• Homemade toiletries and cosmetics
• Frugal living
• Growing herbs
• Pressure cooking
• Creating a budget
• Mending clothes and darning socks
• Making ginger beer and lemonade
• Sewing Bee
• Preserving /Bottling
• Shopping and feeding your family without spending a fortune.
• Propogating plants

And that’s just a sample. Classes depend on who’s available to teach and how much interest there is for attendance. The sourdough class just gone was very popular!

Classes are generally $5 per adult, run for 2 hours, it’s ok to bring children (but you need to watch them/be responsible for them) and are very inspiring. Just to be around so many people with so much knowledge, creativity and tips is amazing.

We meet at Range Christian Fellowship, in Wilsonton.

You can find out more here

If you want to be in the loop, go to the contact and booking page and request to be added to the mailing list.

I will also mention that right now SLT are looking for someone with some experience to teach on herbs. Growing them, using them etc. We had someone lined up and it fell through, so we’d love to find someone else to share with us on that topic (for next year).

Our last class this year (3rd Saturday Nov) will focus on some homemade Christmas ideas. Margaret will demonstrate some Furoshiki (hope that’s correct spelling!), it’s Japanese wrapping using fabric. Very interested in that! We waste far too much paper as a culture, wrapping everything in disposable wrapping paper. I’ll be demonstrating flavoured salts. Easy to make, and great little gift. And there will be a third demo also.

Maybe we’ll see some of you there 🙂