Passions I can't deny
Posted in Baking on Feb 28th, 2010
I’ve not been keeping up with the Healthy Breads in Five group. It seems like I just haven’t taken the time to make the dough which is so easy to do. Anyway, today I finally completed one of the breads for March. This is the 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Olive Oil. For the recipe [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings on Feb 23rd, 2010
In an attempt to suck up a few more weeks (months?) of winter, I made a list of ten things I LOVE about winter. Well, here it is, not exactly in order but how they came to me this morning:
Able to wear my Smart Wool socks
Going to bed early and not feeling guilty
Sleeping late and [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening on Feb 21st, 2010
I decided yesterday, when the air temp had elevated to 56 degrees and the sun was shining, I’d grab my jacket and head on outside to see if I could find spring.
I am happy to report that I did find some signs of spring. I also found some work that was not taken care of [...]
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Feb 20th, 2010
Please go HERE for the actual cold process tutorial. I would recommend printing it out so you can work from it as you are making soap. As I’ve mentioned before, there are a lot of great soap-making resources online, but this site is my favorite. Since I changed her basic recipe, I also consulted our [...]
A couple years ago for Christmas I renewed an old interest in making beauty supplies. Several friends received peppermint lip balm, lavender eye pillows, and body cream. I notice just this past couple of weeks that I was running out of my face lotion and remembered the book I had purchased that year – Organic [...]
I still don’t like to clean, but it makes the job much easier. I also found that this is a great cleaner, but it still wouldn’t get the stove burners clean. I’ve tried about everything I could buy to clean that stove and decided I’d just try a paste of baking soda. It did a [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Feb 9th, 2010
We woke up this morning to another 4 or so inches of snow. Even though I’m ready for spring, it was a beautiful sight.
I couldn’t believe all of the Cardinals at the feeders. They stuck out against all of the snow.
Posted in crafts on Feb 6th, 2010
In an effort to “clean up” my office/studio/woman cave, I have been looking at my UFOs (unfinished projects). I came across this washer bracelet I started over a year ago. I was making this for my friend Marsha for Christmas 2008 and just quit. Since I had all of the necessary supplies to complete it, [...]
Posted in crafts, gadgets, soap making on Feb 5th, 2010
It sure has been a long 24-hours waiting to see our soap!
First, let me tell you how this all came about – making the soap, that is. I’ve always liked the idea of making our own stuff – back to when I had the first three Foxfire books. But with working and all, I abandoned [...]
Today was my day to make yogurt. Well, really it’s my month. This used to be Dave’s task, but many months ago we decided to take turns on yogurt duty. Today was my day for this first batch this month.
If you’ve never eaten homemade yogurt, you are missing a treat. It’s not sweet (you can [...]
