Posted in Ramblings, soap making, tutorials on Jun 28th, 2010
Before I write about lessons learned, I wanted to thank everyone who entered my giveaway of the Eco Craft book. Janice of Flushing, New York won it. It will be in the mail to her tomorrow. Stay tuned for more craft book giveaways.
Also, we finally got rain last night – a whole inch! It was [...]
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Posted in crafts, gardening, tutorials on Jun 23rd, 2010
It’s been real smelly around here lately. I’ve been harvesting lavender. I harvested Dilly Dilly in Dave’s Butterfly Garden and couldn’t stop singing “Lavender blue dilly dilly, Lavender green dilly, dilly …” Dave hadn’t heard of the song sung by many, but the one I remember was by Burl Ives. If you’ve never heard it [...]
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Posted in Baking, HBinFive, Recipes, tutorials on Apr 1st, 2010
This week our HB in Five Bread Challenge included two great recipes: Olive Spelt Bread and Carrot Bread.
The first bread I tackled was the Olive Spelt, which I made into buns. This recipe calls for twice the amount of spelt to unbleached all purpose flour. If you are not familiar with spelt flour, it’s an [...]
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Posted in Cleaning, crafts, soap making, tutorials on Mar 28th, 2010
Before I review our three soaps that have cured and we are using, I wanted to let you know that I won a $25 gift certificate from Majestic Mountain Sage for submitting our Lavender Goat Milk soap in their milk soap challenge. Here is my entry on their blog. Pretty exciting! Can’t wait to order [...]
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Posted in crafts, tutorials on Dec 13th, 2009
Here is my finished product – filled, tagged, and tied up – ready to be given out.
So let’s get started. I’ve only used grosgrain ribbon for this technique because that’s my favorite ribbon, but you might experiment with others.
There you have your own personalized ribbons. Add a name or initials and you’ve personalized the gift. [...]
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