Category Archives: Carfts an Hobbies

Easy Heart Shaped Lotion Bars for Valentine’s Day Gift Giving

Homemade Heart Shaped Lotion Bars are easy to make and are adorable gifts to give. These pretty little white hearts are just 2 oz each which makes them fit nicely in your hand. Lotion Bar Recipe (vegan) 2 oz of … Continue reading

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Making Candy Cane Bark for Holidays

Making different kinds of Chocolate bark is so easy for the holidays, good for snack tray or a small bag made up for a stocking stuffer, or as part of a host gift. or you can make a favorite and … Continue reading

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Cherry and Almond White Chocolate Bark

I am greatly looking forward to Valentines Day tomorrow, I have a pretty new red dress and plan on doing my hair (it’s normally in a pony or up on my head in some way) might even put on a … Continue reading

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Lamb Hide Followup

So from yesterdays post, the brown curly hide is the hair sheep and the fluffy white one is the wool lamb hide. Here it is green washed and wet, ready to be scraped and salted.. Here it is dried, stretched … Continue reading

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How to make a Hard Lotion Bar

Only one person can win the give-a-way but everyone can take the ten min and make their own 🙂 These little guys are very easy to make, the rules are simple, 1/3 of everything based on weight.. and a little … Continue reading

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Figured out what i am making with the calf hide

I am going to make a end table with it,, Fresh Wet Hide Finished Hide and plan, wooden end table with a finished hide on top, the photos of the ideas are all of the net, but they give you … Continue reading

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Felted Soap.. The process.. in photos..

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My first roughly done wet felted sheep milk soaps

Works well for first try, lots to learn and many more to go, but honestly, homemade sheep milk soaps in inside a homemade felted sheeps wool luffa.. awesome!!

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Raw Fleeces came home today..

Four bags for a number of different raw fleece came home today for different projects, right now, the big push will be to get them cleaned and dried so that I can use the wool as I have time..

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“Hair of the Dog” – A Beer and Egg Soap

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