To see how Corie made the soap go here: ua-cam.com/video/uxJFKDuaG5I/v-deo.html For the Strawberry Shortcake Scone recipe go here: blindpigandtheacorn.com/strawberry-shortcake-scones/ Thanks for watching!!
Thank you for sharing this recipe, they look delicious and I am going to try them. I may try the soap too, that was very interesting. We love your channel and your family. You are such sweet people.
@@357bullfrog9 I try everyday to keep to the old ways of doing things as my Granny & Great-granny did to keep them alive in my heart🤗..they had so much to teach us!!
I haven't bought bath soap, for years Corie, I've used your soap and I love it! You are all very talented people. Everyone in the family is talented you all make things, create things, grow things, cook things, you make a mother/grandmother proud!
Now who is Corey, the girl cutting the soap? Do you have a video showing how she makes it.....does she sell it too? How much per bar, etc? Does she do different scents ? Like Rose or Almond....these are two of my fav. scents, I do like vanilla, but not fake vanilla.....a good brand oil is needed for a good scent.....and please don't buy it from china.....who knows what else they put in it.....!!! just saying....I think we all should buy nothing but AMERICAN PRODUCTS....I think we would all be more healthier and even grew all of our foods and that includes our meats too.... only buy from sellers you know & trust.....
My mama was from western Kentucky and many of her recipes and ways of doing things were similar to ones you have shared. Because she died when I was too young to know to pay closer attention, and because by then we were living in New Jersey far away from 'down home' and family, I never learned the older ways of doing things that you have preserved in your Appalachian videos. Thank you so much for helping me rediscover some wonderful lost memories and recipes that I can reintroduce to my Yankee family.
You guys have a talent for explaining things in an easy to understand way. You do it with your cooking, and she did it with the soap. After watching both videos, I'm really thinking about trying my hand at soap-making.
Corie's soap turned out so pretty. And Tipper, your grandmother's pink roses are really lovely. Don't laugh, but watching you and Matt eat those popsicles made me so hungry for one, I added popsicles to my grocery list for the coming week!
😀 Thank you Sandi! You know we haven't eaten popsicles since the girls were little, but somehow I ended up with a pack in my grocery order and we've enjoyed them so much while working out in the sun.
I'm so happy you carried your soap making project all the way to the finished product. This has been a very interesting and fun video. Thank you so much. You did a wonderful job. Jeri Whittaker
I can hear a lot of Irish influence in your music. I believe a number of Irish people settled in Appalachia. Your roses are beautiful. My mum loved them too. It's a lovely living blooming memorial. X
I love 5he background music while you’re chopping strawberries and baking! It’s like a movie soundtrack... Love hearing y’all sing n play! The end was great too!
The Strawberry scones looked delicious, bet you they smelled good as well as the handmade soap. I have always liked living in the country but, when, we always went on vacation down to the Smokies, I often said, I’d love to live in the mountains because, your soul always feels so, peaceful there. You just also seem you can connect to the people much easier.
What a beautiful place and a peaceful & wonderful life. Hard work, yes, but the rewards are great. Thanks for taking me back to my memories of a simpler place & time.
You and Matt are perfect for each other. You are both blessed to have each other. Esoecially now that the girls are grown and finding their own ways! Love your youtube channel!!! ❤
The fresh strawberries looked delicious! Love the beautiful flowers, i have a spring blooming rose also, the fragrance is awesome! I pray that your squash, zucchini does well, I know it was hot and the cold water and popsicles were refreshing.....the soap looked fantastic....as always , thanks tipper ....God bless....🙏
Enjoyed this, pleasure to watch. Love the soap, gardening, and seeing the scenery. i have a peony bush my grandmother gave me a start from and I treasure it.
Did you know you can put common food coloring in water and they will color white peonies any color you want. My aunt used to do this and it made an unusual colorful peony bouquet. With the natural red and pink ones plus the colored ones, blue, green, lavender, yellow etc. I don’t remember how long she left them in the colored waters, but probably at least overnight. Then she’d put them with the other colors.
I always love and look forward to your videos! It reminds me sooooo much of my upbringing! I play the guitar also and still sit around and play with family. Being able to do this brings me so much happiness and contentment! Thank you for your videos!
Those videos of Tipper and Matt working on the garden spot, eating a popcicle and talking was a real treat, especially with the girls' music playing. Also enjoyed the shot of the pink roses with the smell that Tipper describes. It's the old fashioned roses that smell the best. Many of the rose plants that we buy at the nurseries are bred primarily for color and form and not for their aroma. For myself, I'd rather have that special smell, even if their beauty is short-lived
Lovely video.. brings back sweet memories of my sister and me growing up on my Grandparents' farm in the '50's in West Virginia... the roses, making soap, gardens, fruit trees.. even the popsicles, though I have to have the sugar-free ones, now. 💜
I love how you guys work together in your projects like gardening, playing instruments etc. Takes me back to my days on the farm and how we got everything accomplished in teams. I was the oldest child since my mom had passed when I was 14. Then my cousin's 4 children and also, we had had 4 or 5 foster children not including the adults. I love your home in the mountains, all you share with us and have taught and shared with your beautiful daughters too. Such great memories....
O My Lord, ur poem about who u r just about took my breath completely away. U r a gift to all us folks from the mountains. U show r kindness, dignity & a face that is so welcoming & accepting. Thank u so much. I also love George Ella . More later.
This is one of my new favorite channels. We need more real American people sharing their stories like this. It is so interesting to be a part of your lives as you present them here. That soap is really beautiful in color and all the handmade things you all do are so fascinating. That flat scraper is used a lot by bakers and chefs and cooks in the kitchen. What you used it for seems very appropriate to scrape down the edges of your soap. Anyway, thank you for your stories and your language lessons. I subscribe to a lot of channels that share the American essence and purpose like farmers, and these two very funny African American brothers that are really on top of their BBQ game somewhere down in South Carolina. UA-cam allows us to see the best and worse of people and it is channels like this that offer us a remarkable sense of the spirit of our country - no matter our color, our heritage, or our individualism. And that is this majority of people in this country that represent the true stock of who and what we are...not something most of our politicians understand. Again thanks for sharing, I truly learn new things with channels like this each and every time I view them.
These type of videos are the BEST! just watching you and The deerslayer work around the home,fixing breakfast and other meals, plus getting to watch the girls play a song at the end is MARVELOUS! I apologize for not getting to like all the videos because I watch most of them on my TV but I am a subscriber and LOVE the my life in appalachia series. P.S. the young lady that plays the fiddle is Just awesome!
My momma and grandma both had those roses in the yard and so did all the woman in the row of houses here I grew up. You are right about there smell, you could walk by each house along the railroad tracks in the spring and the smell from those roses in each yard. The soap looks great, just keep it simple. I've seen a lot of those smelly soaps here in Florida and they can keep them. You garden is looking great and you can you are country raised, because you are out there right beside your husband helping. You all have a great day and bless each and everyone of you.
I've never made my own soap. Never spent a good part of the day workin' a piece of ground to garden alongside my children's mother. And I've never wound down the day playin' a tune with my kids. But I wish I had...
In my part of Appalachia Memorial Day was a time to clean all the family graves. Mother & I would get her Mom & her Mom’s sister & we load up sickles (?), a bucket or 2, clippers& a jars with flowers & clean off all the graves of r relatives. Great time to get reacquainted with great grandparents, kids that had died young. Memory lane!!!
Ya’ll are, hands down, the sweetest family! I love to watch each of you present something you do well. If our families could get back to living like you do, I truly believe it would make a huge difference in the world. It brings the family members close. And, topped with music!! Doesn’t get any better than that!! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️❣️
Whenever I'm feeling bad my blood pressure is up or I'm hurting I come on here and go to watching and it helps me calm down and get my mind of your beautiful place. Thank you for sharing ☺️
I love what you’re doing! I could watch your videos all day long. You’re genuine people, just salt of the earth everyday folks sharing your everyday life and I relate with that, no fake scripted kind of nonsense! The history of the mountain people in Appalachia, especially southern Appalachia has intrigued me every since we started coming to visit your piece of heaven in the Smoky Mountains. The national park is a beautiful place, a bit touristy like my home which has the beautiful beaches of South Walton, but it’s always beautiful nonetheless! Me and my wife, before she passed, would always stay in Cosby, TN and we loved visiting the Cataloochee side of the park! It is so serine and the elk that have been reintroduced to the area, they are so majestic, we could sit and watch them for hours! Tipper, please don’t change what you’re doing, I’m living my dream of Appalachia through you! May God continue to bless you and your wonderfully talented family! 🙏❤️
We went to decoration day services at 11 am . Went too all the graves. I took all the back roads , bad but worth it. Looks like you all are having an all American holiday treat. Good music great video.
The apparatus you used to trim up soap is an invaluable kitchen tool called a bench scraper. Great when making bread or pastry when dividing dough and scraping work surface to get crumbs and flour up cleanly. Also when preparing veggies and have onions or celery or anything you have chopped and need to transfer to pans. Slide chopped veggies onto the metal surface and nary any drops off or falls. You will see how useful they are. Just an FYI. 😊🐾🐾
Isn’t it awesome how the Master Creator put His creative ability in us, as well as the desire to create?! I totally understand the joy of making things for your loved ones. I bake and can food for my family and friends and I get more joy than the receiver!
I was blessed to grow up on the Russell fork river in Vans ant VA. We were poor but didn't know it. And rich in ways that the town folk could only imagine. Family, traditions long upheld, God and mother nature were my teachers. I knew hard work, and was glad to learn respect for myself as well as others. I yearn to go back to that time. Thank you for sharing.
Thats a dough cutter Look at the clear water running through there. Beautiful. There was alot of beautiful people back in the day, We don't have many people like that any more. I loved those people. Wonderful, wonderful people. Its what we need today.
My dear Appalachian family, you are a breath of fresh mountain air. How I can imagine myself baking beside you, creating art beside you, gardening beside you, enjoying a chat and Popsicle beside you, and enjoying a family sing along beside you. If only I knew how to play an instrument. It is videos like yours that have me long for a family in my home. Thank you for sharing your life, loves and memories with us.
Thank you kindly for sharing part of your lives with us along with all your amazing tips! Here's one in return. I keep the berry tops and dehydrate them and add them to herbal teas, as they are packed full of vitamins and minerals and add a splash of spring flavor anytime of year! I recommend only doing this If your strawberries are organic. Hope you enjoy the holiday today. 🥰
I remember years ago people made lye soap including my grandmother. It sure made the clothes clean, and it was good cleaning things. I never tried it. But I do remember this couple would take all of their furniture out of cabin they had and wash the wooden walls, floors, cabients with lye soap .The furniture was on the ground and it was the old iron bedsteads and they would scrub all of the furniture with the soap and let it dry then take the knobs off and pour coal oil down them to keep the bed bugs out then go through the cabients, floors next to the outside and take a rag and go around them with coal oil. When it was all dry they moved it all back inside. They had no problems with bugs and the cabin smelled clean.
Loved this family video Tipper. At the end you spoke of taking a cutting of your Granny's rose bush. I would love to know how you did that to make it grow. I have a hard time propagating several types of plants and flowers. Hydrangeas is another one I have trouble with. My soil has a lot of clay and I wonder if thats the problem. Would you mind doing a video on this subject when you get a chance? By the way, I love popsicles too and really liked seeing yall enjoying them outside. I try to also keep freeze pops in the freezer during the Summer for anyone who needs to cool off. Love this channel and The Pig and the Acorn. You are really are doing a great thing in preserving family memories and how you and your family are living and making memories for future generations. Thanks for all you and your family do.😊💕
Eating those popsicles is a great idea to cool off when working outside in the heat. I always bout die from heat in summer mowing the grass. Gonna try that! Your daughters are so beautiful and talented!
Love watch your videos, bring back so many memories as a child. I even like looking around at you watnots and stuff see stuff my granny had stuff I have now. My kids call my house museum because at the old stuff I have. I tell them they make me happy. I even have a speckled bowl like yours. Lol found at goodwill someone told me Rachel Ray bowl. God Bless you and yours
Looks like the soap turned out real nice,Good job Corie.The strawberry scones look delicious,those strawberries were huge.Tipper you and Matt make a great team when it comes to gardening. Squash, zucchini, and pumpkins planted,job done.Those are beautiful roses,we have some peonies that's been on our place nearly 50 years,still lovely looking and bring back alot of good memories of my folks. As always the music was just wonderful. Have a great Memorial Day and a good week. 🙂
Great job on the soap! I did like that color. Very pretty! Lovely music for ending a Sunday. I’m enjoying your garden very much. That’s for sharing your life with us! I love hearing the entire family, but the violin/fiddle is awesome!. Have a great week, the strawberry scones looked so scrumptious!❤️🙏🏻Jane/SC
That strawberry shortcake looks so delicious and what a pretty colour that madder root powder made in the soap. I found your channel after watching the soap making video because I'm a soap maker too and just love watching how other people make their soap. I was really impressed by your daughters teaching ability and also checked her recipe and I can tell you as a professional soapmaker she has nailed that recipe, it's beautifully well balanced and won't dry out the skin. I dream of one day having land one day in such a beautiful place that I could grow things and build a home. It's probably always going to be just a dream for me but I'm so happy seeing beautiful families like yours enjoying that life in nature and doing things like this for their families, it's just so beautiful. Anyway thanks for a great video and a big hello from the coast at Southeast Queensland Australia!!🌈🙋🐬🌺🌊
The strawberry dessert looked amazing!....loved the music. My home is adjacent to The Smokey Mtn National Park...Cataloochee is just over the ridge....your right it is one of the most beautiful places. Blessings🙏🏻💖
Your utensil that you got at the thrift store is called a bench scraper. It is used in the kitchen to pick up chopped onions etc. It is also used for dividing dough.
I live on the farm my mom was raised on,my great great grandfather built the house i live in and i still have the origional outhouse...lol Im gonna fix the inside of tge outhouse really cute and put some primative stuff around it,we also have original barn,im learnin so much from your videos,TY so much for your hard hard work u put into your videos... im finding out names of flowers that have been planted here for years by watching your videos and im gonna do a huge garden next year....have u guys ever growed lufas,we put some out this year and didn't know much about them,found out we put them out to late,love u guys,stay safe😊💖😊🧡😊💙😊💚😊❤😊💛😊💜😊
Just started watching your channel. Really enjoying it, since I'm older now and definitely turning into my mom/mamaw lol. Got my garden and my canning jars, my chickens, and can do just a little bit of everything. It's in the DNA. Gotta try this soapmaking!
Very nice everyone! Corie's Soap and your good looking strawberries and scones! The hard work n the garden with Matt and then close with music. A nice video! AND, am I mistaken or haven't your subscribers almost doubled in the last month? Congratulations to you and yours!
Good video ladies! You had me at first Tipper, I thought if your strawberry shortcake scone was soap I surely wouldn't have minded granny washing my mouth out with it. lol! Good looking soap young lady, keep up the tradition. Much better than store bought.
To see how Corie made the soap go here: ua-cam.com/video/uxJFKDuaG5I/v-deo.html
For the Strawberry Shortcake Scone recipe go here: blindpigandtheacorn.com/strawberry-shortcake-scones/ Thanks for watching!!
Yhank you. Enjoyed this video so much.you all are so comfortable to watch.like family.were blessrd to have tbis channel.❤❤❤
I really want some strawberry "sconns" as we would say up here in't North. I'd love some soap too. X
Thank you for sharing this recipe, they look delicious and I am going to try them. I may try the soap too, that was very interesting. We love your channel and your family. You are such sweet people.
People thinks we're poor and backward but if they could all live this way they'd be way better off
Your not poor and backward ! We need u country women here !! O.C . California
Thanks for watching! We do have a good life 😀
You are not poor!!..You are very blessed 🙏🙏✝️✝️..
@@laurarowland7926 yes mam I am. Blessed by GOD
@@357bullfrog9 I try everyday to keep to the old ways of doing things as my Granny & Great-granny did to keep them alive in my heart🤗..they had so much to teach us!!
One of the simple pleasures of this life, sitting on a stump in the shade, eating a popsicle.
Could watch you guys all day... makes me home sick. Live in TN.. but from Western NC. great channel.. please keep it up and stay who you are!
I haven't bought bath soap, for years Corie, I've used your soap and I love it! You are all very talented people. Everyone in the family is talented you all make things, create things, grow things, cook things, you make a mother/grandmother proud!
Now who is Corey, the girl cutting the soap? Do you have a video showing how she makes it.....does she sell it too? How much per bar, etc? Does she do different scents ? Like Rose or Almond....these are two of my fav. scents, I do like vanilla, but not fake vanilla.....a good brand oil is needed for a good scent.....and please don't buy it from china.....who knows what else they put in it.....!!! just saying....I think we all should buy nothing but AMERICAN PRODUCTS....I think we would all be more healthier and even grew all of our foods and that includes our meats too.... only buy from sellers you know & trust.....
My mama was from western Kentucky and many of her recipes and ways of doing things were similar to ones you have shared. Because she died when I was too young to know to pay closer attention, and because by then we were living in New Jersey far away from 'down home' and family, I never learned the older ways of doing things that you have preserved in your Appalachian videos. Thank you so much for helping me rediscover some wonderful lost memories and recipes that I can reintroduce to my Yankee family.
What a beautiful family!
You guys have a talent for explaining things in an easy to understand way. You do it with your cooking, and she did it with the soap. After watching both videos, I'm really thinking about trying my hand at soap-making.
Corie's soap turned out so pretty. And Tipper, your grandmother's pink roses are really lovely. Don't laugh, but watching you and Matt eat those popsicles made me so hungry for one, I added popsicles to my grocery list for the coming week!
😀 Thank you Sandi! You know we haven't eaten popsicles since the girls were little, but somehow I ended up with a pack in my grocery order and we've enjoyed them so much while working out in the sun.
@@CelebratingAppalachia ♥️
Me too
I love to make rose petal jelly. Very delicate.
I'm so happy you carried your soap making project all the way to the finished product. This has been a very interesting and fun video. Thank you so much. You did a wonderful job.
Jeri Whittaker
YES !!!
I wish I could play an instrument, but especially if I could play along with family. How awesome!
Thank you for watching 😀 It is a joy to play together 😀
I strum chords on my baritone ukulele. Just saying.
I can hear a lot of Irish influence in your music. I believe a number of Irish people settled in Appalachia.
Your roses are beautiful. My mum loved them too. It's a lovely living blooming memorial. X
Love how the soap turned out!
It's the prettiest color 😀
I love 5he background music while you’re chopping strawberries and baking! It’s like a movie soundtrack...
Love hearing y’all sing n play! The end was great too!
The Strawberry scones looked delicious, bet you they smelled good as well as the handmade soap. I have always liked living in the country but, when, we always went on vacation down to the Smokies, I often said, I’d love to live in the mountains because, your soul always feels so, peaceful there. You just also seem you can connect to the people much easier.
What a beautiful place and a peaceful & wonderful life. Hard work, yes, but the rewards are great. Thanks for taking me back to my memories of a simpler place & time.
In the soap reveal the implement is called a bench scraper. Traditionally used in bread making.
You and Matt are perfect for each other. You are both blessed to have each other. Esoecially now that the girls are grown and finding their own ways! Love your youtube channel!!! ❤
The fresh strawberries looked delicious! Love the beautiful flowers, i have a spring blooming rose also, the fragrance is awesome! I pray that your squash, zucchini does well, I know it was hot and the cold water and popsicles were refreshing.....the soap looked fantastic....as always , thanks tipper ....God bless....🙏
How glorious the last couple days have been in Appalachia!❤️
They sure have been!
Enjoyed this, pleasure to watch. Love the soap, gardening, and seeing the scenery. i have a peony bush my grandmother gave me a start from and I treasure it.
Did you know you can put common food coloring in water and they will color white peonies any color you want. My aunt used to do this and it made an unusual colorful peony bouquet. With the natural red and pink ones plus the colored ones, blue, green, lavender, yellow etc. I don’t remember how long she left them in the colored waters, but probably at least overnight. Then she’d put them with the other colors.
I always love and look forward to your videos! It reminds me sooooo much of my upbringing! I play the guitar also and still sit around and play with family. Being able to do this brings me so much happiness and contentment! Thank you for your videos!
You have such an amazing, beautiful family. I love that you all work together for the good of the family. Awesome 🥰
Those videos of Tipper and Matt working on the garden spot, eating a popcicle and talking was a real treat, especially with the girls' music playing. Also enjoyed the shot of the pink roses with the smell that Tipper describes. It's the old fashioned roses that smell the best. Many of the rose plants that we buy at the nurseries are bred primarily for color and form and not for their aroma. For myself, I'd rather have that special smell, even if their beauty is short-lived
Ya gotta love this family, salt of the earth.
Lovely video.. brings back sweet memories of my sister and me growing up on my Grandparents' farm in the '50's in West Virginia... the roses, making soap, gardens, fruit trees.. even the popsicles, though I have to have the sugar-free ones, now. 💜
I love how you guys work together in your projects like gardening, playing instruments etc. Takes me back to my days on the farm and how we got everything accomplished in teams. I was the oldest child since my mom had passed when I was 14. Then my cousin's 4 children and also, we had had 4 or 5 foster children not including the adults. I love your home in the mountains, all you share with us and have taught and shared with your beautiful daughters too. Such great memories....
Again, enjoyed this video. Love to see how talented and "real" you and your family are. Roses are beautiful - but the best thing are your memories!!!!
O My Lord, ur poem about who u r just about took my breath completely away. U r a gift to all us folks from the mountains. U show r kindness, dignity & a face that is so welcoming & accepting. Thank u so much. I also love George Ella . More later.
Thank you! I hope you have a good week 🙂
This is one of my new favorite channels. We need more real American people sharing their stories like this. It is so interesting to be a part of your lives as you present them here. That soap is really beautiful in color and all the handmade things you all do are so fascinating. That flat scraper is used a lot by bakers and chefs and cooks in the kitchen. What you used it for seems very appropriate to scrape down the edges of your soap. Anyway, thank you for your stories and your language lessons. I subscribe to a lot of channels that share the American essence and purpose like farmers, and these two very funny African American brothers that are really on top of their BBQ game somewhere down in South Carolina. UA-cam allows us to see the best and worse of people and it is channels like this that offer us a remarkable sense of the spirit of our country - no matter our color, our heritage, or our individualism. And that is this majority of people in this country that represent the true stock of who and what we are...not something most of our politicians understand. Again thanks for sharing, I truly learn new things with channels like this each and every time I view them.
Thank you Mike! So glad you enjoy our videos 🙂
These type of videos are the BEST! just watching you and The deerslayer work around the home,fixing breakfast and other meals, plus getting to watch the girls play a song at the end is MARVELOUS! I apologize for not getting to like all the videos because I watch most of them on my TV but I am a subscriber and LOVE the my life in appalachia series. P.S. the young lady that plays the fiddle is Just awesome!
Thank you Thomas 😀 So glad you enjoy our videos!!
My momma and grandma both had those roses in the yard and so did all the woman in the row of houses here I grew up. You are right about there smell, you could walk by each house along the railroad tracks in the spring and the smell from those roses in each yard. The soap looks great, just keep it simple. I've seen a lot of those smelly soaps here in Florida and they can keep them. You garden is looking great and you can you are country raised, because you are out there right beside your husband helping. You all have a great day and bless each and everyone of you.
Thank you Michael! The scent of those flowers is so nice 😀
I've never made my own soap. Never spent a good part of the day workin' a piece of ground to garden alongside my children's mother. And I've never wound down the day playin' a tune with my kids.
But I wish I had...
I, vaguely, remember watching this but I am enjoying watching it again. 😊🇨🇦
In my part of Appalachia Memorial Day was a time to clean all the family graves. Mother & I would get her Mom & her Mom’s sister & we load up sickles (?), a bucket or 2, clippers& a jars with flowers & clean off all the graves of r relatives. Great time to get reacquainted with great grandparents, kids that had died young. Memory lane!!!
We use to do the same thing.
Ya’ll are, hands down, the sweetest family! I love to watch each of you present something you do well. If our families could get back to living like you do, I truly believe it would make a huge difference in the world. It brings the family members close. And, topped with music!! Doesn’t get any better than that!! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️❣️
You are so kind 😀 Thank you Judy!!
Whenever I'm feeling bad my blood pressure is up or I'm hurting I come on here and go to watching and it helps me calm down and get my mind of your beautiful place. Thank you for sharing ☺️
You are the best Suzie!! We so appreciate your support and encouragement 😀
I love what you’re doing! I could watch your videos all day long. You’re genuine people, just salt of the earth everyday folks sharing your everyday life and I relate with that, no fake scripted kind of nonsense! The history of the mountain people in Appalachia, especially southern Appalachia has intrigued me every since we started coming to visit your piece of heaven in the Smoky Mountains. The national park is a beautiful place, a bit touristy like my home which has the beautiful beaches of South Walton, but it’s always beautiful nonetheless! Me and my wife, before she passed, would always stay in Cosby, TN and we loved visiting the Cataloochee side of the park! It is so serine and the elk that have been reintroduced to the area, they are so majestic, we could sit and watch them for hours! Tipper, please don’t change what you’re doing, I’m living my dream of Appalachia through you! May God continue to bless you and your wonderfully talented family! 🙏❤️
Fred-thank you so much for the encouragement 😀
You seem to have a fantastic family. Thank you for sharing your stories and all.
I am so glad I found you guy's. You sometime's bring a tear to my eye. I miss my people who have passed.
Thank you Karen-so glad we remind you of family 😀
We went to decoration day services at 11 am . Went too all the graves. I took all the back roads , bad but worth it. Looks like you all are having an all American holiday treat. Good music great video.
Joyce-I'm glad you go to go to Decoration Day 😀
I love my new edition to my you tube family you make me feel like I belong. Thank you for your warm and welcoming videos.
The apparatus you used to trim up soap is an invaluable kitchen tool called a bench scraper. Great when making bread or pastry when dividing dough and scraping work surface to get crumbs and flour up cleanly. Also when preparing veggies and have onions or celery or anything you have chopped and need to transfer to pans. Slide chopped veggies onto the metal surface and nary any drops off or falls. You will see how useful they are. Just an FYI. 😊🐾🐾
Isn’t it awesome how the Master Creator put His creative ability in us, as well as the desire to create?! I totally understand the joy of making things for your loved ones. I bake and can food for my family and friends and I get more joy than the receiver!
I was blessed to grow up on the Russell fork river in Vans ant VA. We were poor but didn't know it. And rich in ways that the town folk could only imagine. Family, traditions long upheld, God and mother nature were my teachers. I knew hard work, and was glad to learn respect for myself as well as others. I yearn to go back to that time. Thank you for sharing.
At 7:30 is a pastry cutter/knife, it's also used as dough cutter, scraper, a very versatile utensil 😀
Thats a dough cutter Look at the clear water running through there. Beautiful. There was alot of beautiful people back in the day, We don't have many people like that any more. I loved those people. Wonderful, wonderful people. Its what we need today.
I love how you all live. So resourceful.
We used to call those big lizards we found near the river banks “mud puppies”. You are right Tipper, they are actually salamanders.
My dear Appalachian family, you are a breath of fresh mountain air. How I can imagine myself baking beside you, creating art beside you, gardening beside you, enjoying a chat and Popsicle beside you, and enjoying a family sing along beside you. If only I knew how to play an instrument. It is videos like yours that have me long for a family in my home. Thank you for sharing your life, loves and memories with us.
Thank you so much 😀
I’m from NJ but I have a love for everything southern! So glad I found your channel!
My goodness those berries looked delicious. That music. i could sit on a porch all day and listen to you guys play. It's beautiful.
Thank you kindly for sharing part of your lives with us along with all your amazing tips! Here's one in return. I keep the berry tops and dehydrate them and add them to herbal teas, as they are packed full of vitamins and minerals and add a splash of spring flavor anytime of year! I recommend only doing this If your strawberries are organic. Hope you enjoy the holiday today. 🥰
Great tip!
The soap part was neat to watch. Corie has her mother's hands, and her love of talking about the details.
Another great video and way of life! The country way!
I love listening to the music toward the end, so light hearted and sweet. :)
I remember years ago people made lye soap including my grandmother. It sure made the clothes clean, and it was good cleaning things. I never tried it. But I do remember this couple would take all of their furniture out of cabin they had and wash the wooden walls, floors, cabients with lye soap .The furniture was on the ground and it was the old iron bedsteads and they would scrub all of the furniture with the soap and let it dry then take the knobs off and pour coal oil down them to keep the bed bugs out then go through the cabients, floors next to the outside and take a rag and go around them with coal oil. When it was all dry they moved it all back inside. They had no problems with bugs and the cabin smelled clean.
Tipper, thank you and your family for sharing. Today would me my Grandma's 123 birthday and you help me remember her.
Aric-that is so sweet! I'm glad I remind you to think of her 😀
Loved this family video Tipper. At the end you spoke of taking a cutting of your Granny's rose bush. I would love to know how you did that to make it grow. I have a hard time propagating several types of plants and flowers. Hydrangeas is another one I have trouble with. My soil has a lot of clay and I wonder if thats the problem. Would you mind doing a video on this subject when you get a chance? By the way, I love popsicles too and really liked seeing yall enjoying them outside. I try to also keep freeze pops in the freezer during the Summer for anyone who needs to cool off. Love this channel and The Pig and the Acorn. You are really are doing a great thing in preserving family memories and how you and your family are living and making memories for future generations. Thanks for all you and your family do.😊💕
Luellen-thank you so much! Here's a post about rose cuttings: blindpigandtheacorn.com/how-to-root-a-rose-bush-cutting/ 😀
I thank you all for sharing home with me, us. One day maybe I will get to come back home.
I love your popsickle time with your husband outside! It is so peaceful! Y'all are such a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing with us!
I just loved learning about the soap making, and your garden planting, and everything. I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day.
Thank you so much! 😀
You and your family are hard workers, it's inspiring.
Thank you for this wonderful trip into the lives of your family. I truly appreciate it. It's like a little trip to Appalachia for me this morning.
The girls are so talented. What a blessing they must be!
Eating those popsicles is a great idea to cool off when working outside in the heat. I always bout die from heat in summer mowing the grass. Gonna try that! Your daughters are so beautiful and talented!
Y'all are just plain GOOD folks !!
Loved, loved, loved watching the soap making !!!!!!
Every time I see that beautiful mixing bowl, I know something good is going to happen. 😍
😊 thank you
I love how you use your hands to stir! My great grandmother did and they were the best biscuits! She said it puts love in them!
😀 Granny does that too!
My Aunt Maude mixed her biscuits with her hands and cooked them in a wood stove. They were sooooooo good!
Love watch your videos, bring back so many memories as a child. I even like looking around at you watnots and stuff see stuff my granny had stuff I have now. My kids call my house museum because at the old stuff I have. I tell them they make me happy. I even have a speckled bowl like yours. Lol found at goodwill someone told me Rachel Ray bowl. God Bless you and yours
Glad you like them!
Looks like the soap turned out real nice,Good job Corie.The strawberry scones look delicious,those strawberries were huge.Tipper you and Matt make a great team when it comes to gardening. Squash, zucchini, and pumpkins planted,job done.Those are beautiful roses,we have some peonies that's been on our place nearly 50 years,still lovely looking and bring back alot of good memories of my folks. As always the music was just wonderful. Have a great Memorial Day and a good week. 🙂
Thank you Donald! I hope you have a great week too 😀
Your roses from your granny are beautiful, your scones looked wonderful and the wildlife is so peaceful. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video Kat! Hope you have a great week 😀
That's some fine looking soap Corie!
My daddy’s favorite place was Cataloochee. He would take us camping there. Many happy memories. My Mama’s grandfather took him fishing there. ❤❤
Great job on the soap! I did like that color. Very pretty! Lovely music for ending a Sunday. I’m enjoying your garden very much. That’s for sharing your life with us! I love hearing the entire family, but the violin/fiddle is awesome!. Have a great week, the strawberry scones looked so scrumptious!❤️🙏🏻Jane/SC
Thank you Jane! Hope you have a great week too 😀
That strawberry shortcake looks so delicious and what a pretty colour that madder root powder made in the soap. I found your channel after watching the soap making video because I'm a soap maker too and just love watching how other people make their soap. I was really impressed by your daughters teaching ability and also checked her recipe and I can tell you as a professional soapmaker she has nailed that recipe, it's beautifully well balanced and won't dry out the skin. I dream of one day having land one day in such a beautiful place that I could grow things and build a home. It's probably always going to be just a dream for me but I'm so happy seeing beautiful families like yours enjoying that life in nature and doing things like this for their families, it's just so beautiful. Anyway thanks for a great video and a big hello from the coast at Southeast Queensland Australia!!🌈🙋🐬🌺🌊
Thank you so much! 😀
I'm so happy you carried your project of soap making all
The cleaning tool you mention is a bench scraper, used in baking and cooking.
Good company and beautiful music . The soap turned out nice too.
You mentioned doodle bugs, as a child we did that. So fun
I can't imagine kids today doing that.
Great music and a beautiful family.
God bless y’all.
I really enjoyed this video! Especially you and Matt chatting while cooling off with the popsicles!
The strawberry dessert looked amazing!....loved the music. My home is adjacent to The Smokey Mtn National Park...Cataloochee is just over the ridge....your right it is one of the most beautiful places. Blessings🙏🏻💖
Donna-you are lucky! What a beautiful area you live in 😀
Now I want to buy soap and popsicles! Great video as always
Thank you Sarah 😀
Your utensil that you got at the thrift store is called a bench scraper. It is used in the kitchen to pick up chopped onions etc. It is also used for dividing dough.
I live on the farm my mom was raised on,my great great grandfather built the house i live in and i still have the origional outhouse...lol Im gonna fix the inside of tge outhouse really cute and put some primative stuff around it,we also have original barn,im learnin so much from your videos,TY so much for your hard hard work u put into your videos... im finding out names of flowers that have been planted here for years by watching your videos and im gonna do a huge garden next year....have u guys ever growed lufas,we put some out this year and didn't know much about them,found out we put them out to late,love u guys,stay safe😊💖😊🧡😊💙😊💚😊❤😊💛😊💜😊
Thank you! Never grew lufas before 😀
Oh, wow! I love watching you make soap. I will go back and watch your other video's. Very interesting.
Just started watching your channel. Really enjoying it, since I'm older now and definitely turning into my mom/mamaw lol. Got my garden and my canning jars, my chickens, and can do just a little bit of everything. It's in the DNA. Gotta try this soapmaking!
Robin-it is funny how we sort of turn into them 😀 So glad you're enjoying our videos!
Very nice everyone! Corie's Soap and your good looking strawberries and scones!
The hard work n the garden with Matt and then close with music. A nice video!
AND, am I mistaken or haven't your subscribers almost doubled in the last month? Congratulations to you and yours!
Thank you Buz 😀 So glad you enjoyed it! I'm blown away by all the support-and very thankful for all the help when it comes to celebrating Appalachia 😀
I could listen to this girl talk about soap all day. That’s voice!
Where’s the audiobook?
Thank you for all the information. Great video. So much of the life you live is how i grew up .ps i still reuse my baggies. 🙂🙂
Another great video. I never thought of putting strawberries in the biscuit dough.😊🇨🇦
I'm from long island NY and I love your channel😊 a lot of good information
Good video ladies! You had me at first Tipper, I thought if your strawberry shortcake scone was soap I surely wouldn't have minded granny washing my mouth out with it. lol! Good looking soap young lady, keep up the tradition. Much better than store bought.
😀 Thanks Rick!
Talented family!
Love this way of life. You are Awesome and do things for each other. I love it 😀. God Bless you all 🙏 and Thank you for sharing 🙏
The soap is so pretty! I look forward to making this, thank you for sharing! Nice video🥰
Thanks so much 😊
Just going back thru these videos. Hadn't seen them before enjoyed thanks
I love that bowl at the beginning of the video after you cut the strawberries up! Some kind of stone maybe?
I love all y’all’s stories so genuine