- Competent guys who are nice and fix my tractor tire in five minutes flat.
- Orange sky.
- Long, black, friendly barn cats that adopt YOU.
- Cows under the oak trees, their eyes shining at me from the back porch.
- Chocolate ice cream with bananas on top.
- 20/20 vision (almost 20/15).
- 110 bars of heavenly smelling lavender [...]
This morning my mother and I participated in a local Oktoberfest celebration market. Hubs suggested I start selling all these crafty things that I do, so I filtered through boxes and found four kinds of soap, some reusable flannel hankies, some grapefruit marmalade and some plum sauce to sell. My mother had some jewelery that she [...]
I headed up to Sand Creek this weekend to teach another soap making class. This one went MUCH more smoothly thanks to my preparation and thinking ahead this time. I had five students, everything was prepared and ready and we finished class in just about 2 hours. I’m not worried about the time, more worried about [...]
The neatest origami crane chandelier
State by state food tote features illustrations of food from each great United State. Ranging from the classic New York Bagel to Kuchen (what’s that?) from South Dakota, we’ve hand picked a true diversity of edibles to represent each locale.
Quite possibly, the neatest looking tea shop ever
My friend recorded the Wednesday night [...]
- Pinhole photography including 6 month long exposure shots. Every day the Sun leaves one line after another. The tracks of the moving Sun are visible and increase progressively from December to June. The missing traces are due to the Sun being obscured on overcast days.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge – Bristol
December 17th 2007 – June 21st [...]
I had a crappy week. There’s nothing particularly bad that happened, it was mostly just a combination of things. Friends, work, waiting… Friday was particularly bad with the dreary weather and smashing my finger with the chopping block in the morning and being behind on all the things I wanted to get done. I managed to [...]
- Pretty chocolate lined easter Kinder eggs
- Jonsi – Go – music that lifts my spirit, makes me soar and want to get up, dance, sing at the top of my lungs and remember why the world is such a beautiful place.
- An interesting article on how to make your own lye from wood [...]
Yesterday I drove to Fort Worth to pick up some super cheap sodium hydroxide for soap making from Star for Sand Creek (and myself) for our soap making classes. After picking it up, it seemed like a waste to turn around and go home, so we went to go find some place to eat (Yelp recommended [...]