Welcome!
Welcome to The Commons Archive — a personal project and resource dedicated to preserving practical skills, timeless knowledge, and the spirit of self-sufficiency. This site is a curated collection of guides, reflections, and tools to help you build resilience in everyday life.
From growing your own food to mending clothes, preserving harvests, and creating offline resources, this archive is about learning to rely less on corporate systems and more on hands-on know-how. It’s a space to explore skills that sustain and empower.
Here, you’ll find thoughtful insights and practical steps to nurture your independence and cultivate a resourceful life.
Who am I?
I'm Tiffany! I kind of miss the old internet, so I am hoping to recreate some of the magic with this website. It's a passin project of mine. I just want to have my own little slice of the internet catered to my hobbies and interests. I'm tired of going to a recipe site and having to read some long blog post or see thirty ads before I can view the recipe. I'm tired of interesting articles being locked behind paywalls. I don't know if anyone will care, but I care and I want to make this place the kind of website I would like to read. That's my goal.
Projects
Lately, I've been disappointed with how expensive everything is and how bad the quality is for the price, so I've been trying to make a lot of stuff myself. I hope to one day have detailed tutorials on how to make different things, but for now, you can check out my projects page for things I've been working on and how I've done it.
Recipes
This is my personal collection of recipes and cooking tutorials, including my award-winning Chocolate Cake recipe! I try to make everything from scratch as much as possible.
Essays
Anytime I want to write about life or things of that nature, I will put it up here.