Passions I can't deny
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 7th, 2010
Below you will find our recipe. I’ve included the percentages so if you want to make a bigger batch, you can enter these numbers into the calculator.
A note with dealing with lye. Caution needs to be taken when using this. We open our kitchen window to give the room ventilation during the soap making, even [...]
Posted in Cleaning, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 5th, 2010
Nothing makes me happier than a bargain. The other day on my way out of the local grocery store, there sat a bag of used coffee grounds next to the bag recycling bin. Above the bag was a sign: FREE for your compost, worm garden, or roses. Well, of course I can’t pass up a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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This is the first year I am participating in this exciting event called “One World One Heart.” Started by Lisa Swiftka of A Whimsical Bohemian in 2007, it includes bloggers from all over the world. Please click on the logo below to go to Lisa’s blog and [...]
Posted in crafts on Jan 24th, 2010
Every Valentine’s Day I make some kind of card for Dave. (If you read his blog you know he makes me a Christmas ornament every year.) The first Valentine’s Day we were together I made him the matchbook card below on the right back. Not really fancy – just the first of the homemade Valentine [...]
Today is one of those days for getting ready for the new year. After we took down and put away our Christmas decorations, I checked in the workshop on the irises I potted for next year’s Master Gardeners’ sale. I like to pot them up in fall when I still can identify them. I’ll write [...]
As I am finishing my catnip mice for my friends’ furry kids, dipping some pretzels, and bagging up the biscotti and lavender bath bags, I am thinking about all of the wonderful homemade/handmade gifts I’ve received over the years. I love homemade presents. I love to make them, receive them, and buy them for gifts.
My [...]
