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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This week’s column in The Evansville Courier and Press was about Debra Talley and her recycled jewelry art. Check out her story here.
I especially love this box
and this beautiful frame.
Here’s Debra holding my favorite box of her collection.
I first fell in love with this type of art back when I was the Community Services Director [...]
Handmade Cedar Wood Soap Dishes
Posted in body care products, buying local, crafts, gadgets, soap making on Apr 26th, 2010
I love ETSY. It’s such a great place to find handmade goods. I wanted to find some nice soap dishes to give as presents with our soap this Christmas, but also to use here to help prevent these soaps from melting away in a pool of water. Before checking out ETSY, I had found several [...]
Dreamsicle Face Lotion
Posted in Recipes, body care products, crafts on Apr 20th, 2010
When I was a kid, I just loved Dreamsicles. Well, I still do. We have a local ice cream shop here – a small neighborhood stand with just outdoor seating and a limited menu. If you are looking for a variety of flavors with fancy smancy toppings, this is not your place. In addition to [...]
Cherries and Chocolate!
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Apr 19th, 2010
Now to the chocolate. Dave’s been wanting to make a chocolate soap. Well, it didn’t take any arm twisting to get me to put together a soap formula involving chocolate.
Yum! It smells like chocolate already, but will smell even better once it’s cured. Now to wait four weeks or not!
Soap #4 – Lavender Goat Milk
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Mar 22nd, 2010
This procedure was a little trickier than the others because of the small amount of water and adding the goat milk. There are several different ways to handle milk in soapmaking. After lots of research I decided to try the method that I felt was the easiest.
Please refer to the cold process instructions here. The [...]
Now that the season will soon be upon us I need to move some blackberries out of that prime real estate known as the freezer. Last year I found a way to use up some of those blackberries by making Blackberry Syrup which we enjoyed all summer long. I’m writing about this now since the [...]
Another Day, Another Soap
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 [...]
It's Soap!
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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