The English Homemaker

This episode of The English Homemaker is an interview with Kezia from The Whole Home, and we talk all about realistic sustainability for the homemaker, how to make it practical and not overwhelming. I think it will surprise and encourage you, and give you some practical tips for adjusting your homemaking to have a lower footprint on the earth.

We talk about the why and the mindset shifts behind truly making lasting change in your daily habits. She is the queen of conscious consumerism on a budget, second-hand shopping, meal planning, costing out your purchases and how to reduce waste.

"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality." Martin Luther King

Find Kezia at:https://www.thewholehome.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/the.whole.home/https://www.youtube.com/@thewholehome

Mentioned:Clean & Green by Nancy BirtwhistleConsumed by Aja BarberRajiv Surendra's Tudor Halloween CostumeKiss The Ground documentary

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about building community, nurturing relationships and making friends. It's about reclaiming the home as the birthplace of community, creating a space where people feel loved, peaceful and connected, and why that matters more than most anything else.

There's a load of practical tips for engaging with those around you and reminding yourself of your community. I’m preaching to myself here because these are things I often forget, and I need to hold fast to.

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/

https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

 

Mentions:

Healthy at 100 by John Robbins

12 Ways your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke

Homesteading with the Zimmermans YouTube

Hannah McNeely YouTube

 

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is an interview with Lizzy of Indi Skoven Prints. We talk renovating a Georgian home, adding colour and texture to create a 'visually joyful' home, inspiration for her interior style, the 'bolognaise test', and raising her family in the Wiltshire countryside. Also expect an update from me about our roadtrip holiday to the Moselle valley in Germany and how I'm leaning into autumn homemaking.

Find Lizzy at:https://www.instagram.com/indi_skoven_prints/https://indiskoven.com/

See our family trip to Germany at:https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/09/road-trippin-with-my-three-favourite.html

"Easing into the Autumn Season in my Home & my Heart" :https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/09/easing-into-autumn-season-in-my-home-my.html

Mentioned:Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones on NetflixCarl LarssonNature & Nourish with Becky Cole https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nature-nourish-with-becky-cole/id1331978126Desktop/Tech Backgrounds via The Everygirl https://theeverygirl.com/category/tech-backgrounds/See my Instagram Outfits for the IOIC at https://www.instagram.com/handmadeyears/IOIC hosted by @trust.your.styleMayak Eggs, Korean Marinated Eggs Recipe https://seonkyounglongest.com/mayak-eggs/ 

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is the season finale, and is a bit of a Q&A, a chat about how to clean the oven, about the benefits of monotasking as it pertains to stress and tidying your brain as well as your home. I answer questions about balancing motherhood and homemaking, and share my heart and thoughts, as usual.

Anne of Green Gables: "You can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will".

Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.

Books:A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei MatsumotoThe Life-Giving Home by Sally & Sarah Clarkson

Videos:Rajiv Surendra on Cast Iron Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwvbQWR6DUThe Cottage Fairy video on Monotasking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdH1jP6mtqI

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is an interview with my older brother Martin, who lives on his smallholding in Sweden with his wife and four children. He passionately believes in a wild way of living, connected to place and home, and talks about his journey to self sufficiency. He's a creative and philosophical soul, and he shares their daily and weekly seasonal routines.

Find Martin at:https://www.instagram.com/rebornferal/

See my trip to Sweden to visit him on YouTube:https://youtu.be/cdsaWxRNg0U

Books Mentioned:The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John SeymourDark Emu by Bruce PascoeSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellThe Intelligent Gardener by Steve Solomon

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about the politics of being a homemaker in the UK. It's heavy and it takes a look at the decision to make homemaking a full-time job for me and my family. I tell you about my £42.13 Sainsbury's shop, my gluten free sourdough experiments, my Beatrix Potter moments this week, and the changeable English weather lately (what's new eh?).

Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.

Blog posts:Why I Call Myself a Homemakerhttps://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2021/11/why-i-call-myself-homemaker-now.html

Books:Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about Homemaking in SUMMER! We talk tayberry jam, keeping bugs out the house, making my own Jersey milk yogurt, taking picnics to nearby gardens, absorbing Vitamin D properly and the celebration of Lammas.

Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

Blog posts:Cinnamon bun recipe - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2020/02/my-perfect-cinnamon-cardamom-buns-or.htmlMy very own temamånader - https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/01/my-very-own-temamanader.html

Mentions:

Things for your Christmas wish list:JML Hands-free Can OpenerKnitPro Yarn SwiftKilner Yogurt Making Set

Books:Food for Friends and Family by Sarah RavenThe Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023 by Lia LeendertzRenegade Beauty by Nadine Artemis

A bit about Lammas - https://themysticalkingdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/lammas-celebration-of-first-harvest.html

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about happiness, joy, structure and routine, and how we can stop taking it all so seriously and take a more light-hearted approach to those things which you don't determine as important.

Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.

 

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/

https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

 

Mentions:

Re-defining Rich by Shannon Hayes

Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones

Master the Art of Effective Communication and Handling Conflict with Richard Newman on The Ellen Fisher Podcast

Music: Dove Love by Quincas Moreira

This episode of The English Homemaker is all about introducing my approach to the home: cleaning, organising, renovations, decor, pretty vs practical, shame and pride, zero waste, minimalism, homes full of soul, gratitude and life lessons learned the hard way.

Coming from a cookie-cutter suburban house in the South of England, as always keeping a realistic but fresh view of homemaking. I hope this inspires and encourages you, I am not a perfect homemaker but I try my best to keep learning, and I want to share my journey with you.

 

I am your host Alissa Evelyn, you can find me over at:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/

https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/alissaevelyn

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thealissaevelyn/home-lifestyle/

Mentions:

YouTube Scandish Home

Homemaker Chic Podcast by Shaye Elliott and Angela ReedSHE method : Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones

Spring Wardrobe Switchover Refresh on YouTube : https://youtu.be/eDOnW2TqBeUThrift Shopping Tips : https://youtu.be/XN-iigOclXg

Zero Waste Home by Bea JohnsonThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo

Dara Dubinet

Instagram Favourites:inasfinakarlerikhalldenpatriciarodihannesmauritzsonchoki.home

A podcast episode all about good food and the kitchen dance. In this episode we discuss my food heritage, my travels and my recipe book, diet & food culture, how to cultivate the skill of cooking, meal prep & planning, my favourite cookbooks. It's a really broad intro to food as a homemaker in England, I could talk about food for such a long time, so there will be more detailed episodes on things like meal prepping and what I keep in my fridge.

This podcast as always, comes to you from the suburbs of the south of England. Hopefully you find this a fresh and realistic take on homemaking. My name is Alissa Evelyn, and I'm so happy to have had time to chat with you today.

 

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/theenglishhomemaker/

 

Social Mentions:5oclockapronfrenchfamilyfoodEllen Fisher

Links to my blog posts:Bircher Muesli Recipe: https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-we-ate-on-monday-my-bircher-muesli.htmlFar Breton Recipe: https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/05/far-breton-prune-custard-slice-to-live.htmlWeekly Meal Plan - Free Download : https://alissaevelyn.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-kitchen-dance-my-free-weekly-meal.html

Recommendations:The Makanai on NetflixOur Toaster: Dualit Classic 4 Slice NewGen (made in the UK and fully repairable)

Cookbooks:Atsuko Ikeda's Japanese KitchenTessa Kiros' Falling Cloudberries (& Apples for Jam)Sophie Dahl's Miss Dahl's Voluptuous DelightsJamie Oliver's 30 Minute MealsSarah Raven's Food for Friends and FamilyPhillip Stephen Schulz' As American as Apple PieOlia Hercules' Summer Kitchens