on YouTube you see quite a few channels that talk about Mennonite life and they
have very modern homes and they're very modern in every way of their life but my
ancestors were playing Mennonite and so we were brought up playing Mennonite and
I'm going to share with you my home which is the plain Mennonite home I hope
you enjoy it and come along and clean with me
today's the day I'm gonna start doing some winterizing just a little bit
inside the house you know what we're in the middle of October and soon it's
going to be Thanksgiving and then Christmas so here we go this is a
built-in air conditioner this is basically the only one we use in our
bedroom and so I have got to cover it it's not
easy to cover this thing really makes a difference it's quilted and it also
keeps the cold air from coming in and I insulate it in the outside but I want to
show you what I bought so that's so now I want to show you what
I bought as you buy your everyday needs on Amazon but you use my storefront I'm
able to get some credits and I use the credits for some new flannel bedding oh
it feels so good I wanted to find something that was really cozy and
something that just says Tessie it's king-size and as you can see
there's moose on it so let's get making the bed my bed is really really old but
we have a lot of covers that we lay on top of and that really helps her bed
stay nice and soft but it's gonna be nice to have some new flannel sheets on
our bed because her old ones had holes on it wasn't that expensive I think it
was under $30.00 I can't wait to when hubby gets home and
gets to see the new sheets cuz he doesn't even know about it and they do
feel a lot warmer than our old ones
Wow doesn't that look so much better it's actually king-size so it fits the
other ones we had were Queen and we tried to make them stretch the fit
alright I'm going to finish making the bed in and I'll get working on something
next now you're going to notice that we put a lot of covers on our bed we
actually have it very cold here at our house until it gets to be in the middle
of the winter when we turn on our wood pellet stove but we like our bedroom to
stay cool so we have a lot of covers so many people remark about all of my
quilts I have lots of heirloom quilts and I cherish them really warm bedding
that I put on sometime in January and February January is our coldest months
so January February are really cold here so I saved this this is perfect so we
got the bed made and now we're going to go to dusting the furniture and then I'm
going to put some pictures than some picture frames you know everything in my
home reflects the old and the new new technology a digital clock and then
we have the oil lamps and that's how my house is just about everything I have
as far as furniture king from my husband's side of the family they are
heirlooms wedding gifts like the old clock that were given to Grand Moff
Annie's parents
and believe it or not it still works inside the clock is an old necklace that
Fanny was buried with and I have the other one there are two hearts and they
go together I cherish that and here is
gramma Fanny's husband's parents and this is the furniture that they owned
this is their wedding picture their wedding invitation and these are things
that I cherish being that my side of the family was really plain we didn't have a
whole lot of pictures notice gave me their school pictures and I didn't have
any frames for them but last week wanted you sent but one of you last week sent
me a box and in the box was two picture frames now that video is coming out next
week and I really want to thank you for the box of beautiful treasures that you
found for me but you didn't realize they actually needed these picture frames
isn't that amazing who woulda guessed so we're gonna put the pictures in the
picture frames isn't that darling take a look that is Sienna people know
that I like old things and so when they go to thrift stores and places like that
they see things and she picked them up for me I think she'd I don't think it
was something she had I think she found it either way it's things I can really
use and it's perfect I am so excited isn't that perfect
so thank you for your box of neat things that you've gathered for me now I'll put
these right beside my bed so we got that down we're gonna finish dusting the
bedroom and then I'm gonna work on some other areas of my house so we found
these battery-operated lights and they were at the Family Dollar and I think I
paid like a dollar 50 for him so we put it on that little tree
my granddaughter put them on for me and it just adds a little bit of lighting in
here so far this fall came in with clouds and everything is always so dark
and cloudy but we can add a little bit of happiness a little bit of sunlight so
I got these at the Dollar Tree
so that was a dollar at the Dollar Tree and the candle I got last year for a
dollar now doesn't that bring just a little more happiness into a dark and
dreary room teddy bears I move them from our bed to the sofa because I enjoy
seeing them so I have some books I need to research this week so I put them in
my little box here and all of my notes so they go right here near my sofa where
I sit that way I can work on it so once a week I go through my library of my
books and I pick out the books that I want to do videos on or get ideas from
and this is this week's books yeah it looks great
wow this rim is all cleaned up now I know it's really dark but everything's
cleaned up and now I'm gonna move on into the kitchen said I had this in for
over two months really is nice smell to it anymore and I got this last year at
Walmart for a dollar it is toasted marshmallow or fresh
fallen snow so we're gonna put in some toasted marshmallows
so we'll see what it smells like
there we go so now we gotta clean all this stuff up and I need to dust off all
of my woodwork here and I got this for four dollars last year
and it's called clean polish it's made for the real old wood like this and so I
like using this for all of my old wood
so it's time to put all of these away this is my member verbena cool it smells
amazing so I get to put that out in the pantry because they're all dried and I
had them in the paper bags
I wanted to share with you what I've been working on the last couple days so
with the preserving almost finished for the year I'm really been working on
organizing in my pantries and it's a lot of work it's not something that only
takes a few hours it takes a few days so this is the out porch pantry and I
wanted to work out here before the cold air sets in now it's really dark in this
room but I have all of my food organized
all of my baskets washed and cleaned all the cobwebs are taken down and I'm
really pleased with how this room turned out