Craftsmanship Across the Generations

For my birthday this year, my folks gave me the type of presents that most people give someone still setting up house. A knife block, a nice casserole dish, candles. They were wonderful. But then my Dad brought out a real surprise: a beautiful wooden half hull model of a schooner. My Dad found the unfinished [...]

Valentine’s Day Laundry Supplies

The best gifts are the gifts that you didn’t even know you desperately wanted until you got them. And I got exactly this type of gift this Valentine’s Day. In a red bag filled with candles and Stick Um to make said candles stay up straight, I pulled out five dense, baseball-sized, woolen balls. [...]

Homemade Laundry Soap

Living a greener and healthier life is all about baby steps for me. Baby goals, within reason, and within cost (and hopefully with a savings). So when I saw Soule Mama’s post about homemade laundry soap and this one by Earth Mama, I couldn’t wait to try it.

Here’s the recipe, found at Soule Mama’s post [...]