Your First 10 Skills
The ten to begin with, in order — so you’re not paralyzed by choice. A gentle path into the book, one skill at a time.
A free companion · Lost Skills of Our Grandparents
Welcome. Your Start-Here Guide is ready.
You’ve got the book in your hands. This is the little companion I promised inside it — free, yours to keep, with nothing to buy.
Your free printable Start-Here Guide: Your First 10 Skills (the ten to begin with, in order, so you’re not paralyzed by choice), a one-page Seasonal Home Rhythm calendar of what to do when, and a printable Family Skills card to fill in with the people you’re teaching.
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What’s inside
Three small things to help you begin
The guide doesn’t re-teach the book — it shows you where to start, what to do when, and gives you a page to fill in together.
A Seasonal Home Rhythm
A simple one-page calendar of what to do when — from putting up the summer harvest to weatherproofing before winter.
A Family Skills Card
To pass it down
To pass it downAn extra copy of the Register page — to photocopy and fill in with the people you’re teaching.
The hand behind the book
Hazel Calloway
Farm-raised, and a keeper of the old ways
I grew up watching my grandmother do a hundred small things well — mend a sleeve, put up the summer tomatoes, coax good bread from flour and a little patience. Nobody called them skills back then. They were just how you kept a home.
I wrote Lost Skills of Our Grandparents so those quiet, useful ways don’t slip off with the people who knew them — and so you can hand them on to the folks at your own table. This little guide is simply where to begin.
A note on this photo: it was made with the help of AI imaging tools. Hazel Calloway is the pen name under which these books are written and published by Bayside Press.
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Want the next two, too?
You already have your Start-Here Guide — no email needed for that. But there are two more free printables I made to go alongside the book. If you’d like them (and the odd note from me), leave your email and I’ll send them along.
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The Home-Ready Seasonal Checklist
A printable season-by-season checklist to get your home ready and steady — what to put by, weatherproof, mend, and stock before each season turns.
And then
The Family Skills Keepsake Pack
Extra Family Skills Register cards for every room of the book — plus a short, warm guide, “How to Teach a Skill to a Grandchild.”
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Before you go — your guide is waiting
Print it, tuck it inside the book’s cover, and begin with just one skill this week. The rest will follow, the way they always have.
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