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These ladies are AWESOME!  They are always so willing to help and full of great ideas! 

Join our team of writers and homemakers. These women spend about two hours a week writing articles for The Homemaking Cottage.

If you only see a link with their name, click on it to see their bio and list of articles written.

 

Claire Bush

Claire Bush

Volunteer Writer

 An Arizona freelance writer for the past decade, Claire is a regular contributor to the Arizona Republic’s business, career builder and community sections and is also the author of a statewide restaurant guide, “Dining in Arizona - 101 Great Places to Eat.”

She has appeared as the community news reporter on Arizona cable television station KAZ-TV and has taught creative writing and journalism to school age through adult students throughout the Valley.

Claire has co-authored several cookbooks and is now a working chef and menu designer in Sun City, AZ.

Reach Claire at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 
Marie Ricks
 

Marie Ricks

Volunteer Writer

 

Marie has been sharing home organization skills for more than 20 years now.  She began teaching in 1986 at the local community education center where she developed an eight-week, sixteen-topic course including time management, food preparation, closet and cupboard organization, budgeting, teaching children to work, and shopping skills. 

 Her classes have proven popular both in San Jose, California and Utah County, Utah where she now lives.  She frequently teaches home organization principles at church and community gatherings.  She also does in-home consultations, i.e. she has seen a lot of dirty laundry, cluttered closets, and stacks of untidy paperwork, all of which is very exciting to her.

Marie is a presenter at B.Y.U.’s Education Week and has published a House of Order Handbook which contains chapters on many facets of home manage-ment plus numerous worksheets to make running a home easier for any home-maker.  Deseret Book has published her book:  Project Organization, Quick and Easy Ways to Organize Your Life which helps home managers fine tune their skills.  Her latest book is:  Organized For A Mission, A Guide for Parents and Missionaries.  She has also prepared additional printed “home management” materials to help homemakers, whatever their needs may be.  She has made good use of her personal library which now totals over 300 home management books as she shares valuable and workable ideas in her classes, presentations, and writing.

Marie also writes a columns for various venues and has been a radio show host on AM820.  She has appeared as a featured guest on “Studio 5”, a weekday KSL TV show.  She also shares a weekly organization newsletter from her web page, www.houseoforder.com .

She also has interests in many other areas.  She loves to scrap quilt, make pressed-flower greeting cards for friends and family, and write personal histories. 

 She has been happily married to Jim Ricks for 36 years and together they are the parents of five sons.  Tom is a professor at Louisiana State University, David is attending medical school at Ohio State University, Brian is a computer science doctoral candidate at Brigham Young University (and a new husband), and Tyler is attending Brigham Young University in with hopes to be an animator.  Evan, their youngest, passed away as a young child from leukemia.

 Marie and her family live in Highland, Utah where she and her husband grow a vegetable and fruit garden as their summer hobby and share woodworking projects together on colder days.

Amanda Nelson

Volunteer Writer
 








My name is Amanda Nelson and I spent my whole childhood in the South. After going to college for English and Theatre I got bitten by the travelling bug! My first plane ride was to Seoul, South Korea where I became a teacher. Three years (and several countries) later and I’m married to a wonderful man from New Zealand and I find myself being a homemaker in the middle of a tiny village in South Korea.

We don’t have any children yet except our 2 wonderful doggies and are waiting until next year when we return back to Virginia and start turning our 7 acres of forest into a farm! I am a 20-something homemaker on a mission to help all the women out there put into practice that wherever you are and whatever your means you can make anywhere feel like home.

In my free time I love trying new recipes, scrapbooking, learning about homesteading and working with animal rescue organizations.

You can contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
 
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