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 just trying different recipes each week, amassing a collection worth selling for some fun money.
They’re all on top of my fridge right now, excluding the loaf of calendula soap. I don’t know if that’s best because the smell of the essential oils seems to be dissipating, but we aren’t set up for full time soap factory here in our tiny little antique house. There’s green tea/ lemongrass/ eucalyptus on the left (they’re kind of funky-shaped) and plain castille, green tea/lemongrass, and rosemary exfoliating on the right. Can’t wait for them to cure because I’m still using Ivory.
The daily prompts in the Yarn Love Challenge have taken me back through my knitting history- from those days when I knew no crafters but said I wanted to learn…
This is a knitting first for me. I’ve never knitted a skirt before, though I’ve wanted to make this since it first came out in the HK Fall/ Winter collection….
I think I should have more positive things to say about last year than just that my daughter got married and the wedding turned out beautiful. I’m sure that I…
You know how I’ve said before that this blog covers some of the tangible, creative side of my life? Well, there’s a reason I haven’t posted for a while. I…
This is a little piece of Three Rivers, CA, where we stayed on vacation. I found both the yarn and the “Morning Surf” pattern in a little yarn shop close…