Hello, world!

 Welcome to The Domesticated Housedyke!

(don't mind the dust...we're busy building a better blog!)

Ok...I figure I'll take this opportunity to post a bit of a mission statement, and introduce myself.

I'm the HouseDyke, and this whole mess is my idea.  I live with my wonderful Girlfriend (I hate that word. It doesn't do our relationship justice, but "partner" is so cheesy.) of two years, and our psychotic cat-child, Raisin.  The Girlfriend has some health problems, so I recently got very much into cooking, in an effort to fill her tummy with good nutrition, instead of the pre-made frozen meals that she would eat if left to her own devices. (sigh)

One thing led to another, and now I am very into homemaking.  I now Can, Bake, Cook, Extract, Dehydrate, and Ferment like nobody's business.  Add that to my sewing, knitting, and embroidery obsessions, not to mention my unfortunate love of power tools and sharp things(we are given cause at least twice a week to be grateful that I'm up to date on my tetanus shot!), and I'm sure you can imagine the amount of time I spend perusing the internet for good cooking/crafting/homemaking blogs. Enter the "Domesticated Housedyke," which is thus named because a friend once called me that as I donned my apron and bustled about the kitchen...I liked it, so it stuck :)

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The whole point of this site is to show that you don't have to be a person with a traditional life/relationship/religion in order to 

enjoy traditional activities.

Often times when reading certain crafting websites, I'll come across posts which make me feel like, while the author of the blog appreciates seeing hits on their counter, they may not necessarily be thrilled that a crafty Lesbian is a part of their regular site traffic.  I hold nothing against these people, but my personal mantra is "respect others who respect you," and I decided that I wanted to put together a community of people from all walks of life, helping each other better their lives creatively, using that mantra.

This blog will have a little bit of everything, with guest-posts, and all sorts of fun. Underneath it all however, I ask that you maintain that idea of respecting others.  We will have posts from members of the LGBTQ community, in addition to advocates...people with tattoos, people with kids, people with both...cat people, dog people, fish people and chicken people.  All good people with good ideas, and good hearts.  All comments will be moderated, just in case, but I hope that everyone finds this to be a safe place to find wonderful ideas.

All types are welcome here, so if you are interested in becoming a guest poster once everything is up and running, shoot me an email! 

Thanks for reading this loooong boring post...stay tuned for some better ones :)