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October 14, 2014 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate Leave a Comment

Fall is a pleasant time of year with it’s beautiful colors and the nostalgic crunch of dry leaves underfoot.  It’s also the time when wind begins to blow and the temperatures start dipping–and that’s when I start thinking about how to keep the precious heat that I pay for inside the house where it belongs!… Keep Reading

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DIY Multi Holiday Table Runner

November 18, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 7 Comments

For some reason the fall is a time when I want to pull out my sewing machine and make something!  So when Walmart gave me a Thanksgiving Craft Challenge and asked me to do a fall/Thanksgiving craft of my choice,  I decided I just HAD to do a sewing project.  But why do a project… Keep Reading

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DIY: Porch Snowflakes!

January 13, 2013 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 5 Comments

It’s winter craft time here at Frugal Upstate and Walmart challenged me to come up with a new take on paper snowflakes.  It was perfect–for several years I’ve been wanting to decorate my porch with some sort of “snowflake” theme in January–something to combat the post Christmas decorating “blahs”.  That’s exactlg why I had used… Keep Reading

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DIY Decorator Snowballs for Winter

January 21, 2011 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 3 Comments

I’ve been having a ton of fun decorating my “branch” display in the front entry.  Last week I made some cool snowflakes to decorate it with a winter theme. So I got it into my head that I needed to put snowballs into the hopper of the scale.  But how to make them?  It had… Keep Reading

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Decorating with Snowflakes

January 12, 2011 By Jenn @ Frugal Upstate 8 Comments

I just hate how empty and forlorn the house looks when I take my Christmas decorations down.  After all that color and glitter it’s a really big let down.  This year I decided I had to do at least a little something to tide me over from Christmas until it was time to do some… Keep Reading

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About Frugal Upstate

I’m Jenn –an Upstate NY wife, mom, blogger and veteran. I talk very fast, read constantly, take on too much and make plenty of mistakes. I’m a real person, not perfection. I love to talk about the frugal lifestyle, “Village Homesteading”, living a more sustainable lifestyle and being prepared for all the curves life throws at you.

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