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craft | new to me | soap

Soap Queen, I Think Not

Bymichelle May 22, 2009July 27, 2022

  A friend called me a “regular soap queen” yesterday.  Not really, she’s the one who taught me how and has been doing it for a long time.  But I’m…

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craft | garden | soap

He loves me not…

Bymichelle May 22, 2009July 27, 2022

Tried adding dried calendula to my castille soap Wednesday.  (I have to reap something from this garden!)  So, while having coffee with my sister, I pried off petals, separating seed….

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Time’s A Wastin’
garden

Time’s A Wastin’

Bymichelle May 20, 2009May 17, 2023

I let my little cilantro plants bolt to seed to see if I could harvest it as coriander.  I may have waited too late to collect them because they were…

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garden | my home | new to me

Nunya Bees…

Bymichelle May 18, 2009July 27, 2022

     Yesterday was my first day to really handle the bees.  It was late in the day, which I heard was a no-no, but I was tired and wanted…

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new to me | thinking out loud

Something New Every Week

Bymichelle May 16, 2009July 27, 2022

So, I’m trying to learn something new at least every week.  This week it was fixing sushi.  Even if it was a tex-mex sushi roll (spicy cooked shrimp, avacado, lime…

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garden

Clown Car Garden

Bymichelle May 13, 2009July 27, 2022

I get too ambitious sometimes.  This was my first spring garden to start on time, so with a small space and lack of old-timers  wisdom, I had to  plant a…

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craft | knitting | new to me | thinking out loud

Blogging Day 1 and I Really Just Want to Nap

Bymichelle May 8, 2009July 27, 2022

I don’t like writing grand statements of purpose.  Can I just not?  This is the place where I keep track of projects tried, lessons learned, and images I want to…

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