SpiderFarmer

Working with small batches is often trickier than doing the huge batches I often do. But doing small batches lets you get all kinds of creative. Best of all, if you make a mistake, you’re not tossing out hundreds of dollars in materials. It’s fairly easy to “rebatch” a mistake batch when it’s [...]

Don’t you hate those mornings when none of your clothes fit, everyone is driving you up a wall and you could crochet chain mail from the Dove wrappers scattered around your comfy chair? Yeah….PMS sucks. This morning, after threatening to sell my small child to the gypsies…and his little dog too…I realized that [...]

Now is the season when one tends to overdo it in the sun. (For those of my friends who wear a lot of black and hiss when people open the drapes, the sun is that evil daystar thing.)   There are tons of products on the drugstore shelves for sunburn, but an extraordinary amount of them [...]

Elizabeth Carnahan from Longcroft Soaperie in Scotland is one of the success stories of the boutique bath industry.  Elizabeth has parlayed her hard work and genius with product development into a cottage industry that has been on the pages of some of Europe’s top magazines.
As well as producing, marketing and selling her soap, Elizabeth has [...]

So, I realize that when I said I’d be sharing recipes, everyone expected that I meant blend recipes and soap recipes and whatnot.  Which is true, most of the time.  But this week, I find myself prepping for a party here in the Hollow, and no bbq is complete without chocolate chip cookies.  (Mostly cause [...]