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A topic very near and dear to my heart is the pricing of handmade goods. So I make soap. Handmade, artisan, luxury soap. This is not your Walmart 3-for-a-dollar style soap. I am not competing with Walmart. And I get it, if that’s not your thing, if you prefer body wash, if you can’t justify [...]

It’s that time of year, where I gather my soaps, spread them over a table, and somehow entice strangers to give me money in exchange for them. I started doing this a few years ago, with mixed success. Around Christmas, I tend to do amazingly. The rest of the year, I’ve come to the conclusion [...]

In anticipation of the summer of soap, I placed an order with Voyageur Soap and Candle for a whole bunch of new scents & colours for my soaps (plus a few oils to replace what I’m low on.) And today, they arrived! After spending a morning snorting the new scents (green grass is weird, sensual [...]

I knit a WHOLE sweater! I am so pleased. But this is less about knitting a sweater, and more about blocking. Because blocking is VOODOO. So my sweater is 100% wool. I knew that you could do a lot with blocking, but I had NO idea how much. As soon as it got wet, the [...]

I found myself faced with a problem recently. – I usually work nights and need to sleep in a bit. – My apartment (and bedroom) faces east. – My boyfriend likes to wake up with the sun. – I cannot change the (white, vertical) curtains as per strata rules. – Winter Summer is coming The [...]

My mothers birthday was last Friday, which means I can talk about the Super Secret Project I was working on prior to her birthday, since she reads my twitter. So my mother had her living room redecorated not too long ago. It’s gorgeous, with beautiful chocolate browns, gold, tan, and dark red accents. I have [...]

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I needed to start making things again. That night, I hit up Michaels, bought some yarn and other sundries… and this book. So tonight, the marmot came over for some claying and we sat around, drank a couple of gin & tonics, ate some tasty, tasty yam fries, [...]

So one of the things with this SCA stuff is that making things is much less of a hassle than trying to find exactly what you want, and infinitely less expensive. So, I’ve been sewing a lot more. Excellent. One of the things we needed was some form of heraldry. A couple of tournaments have [...]

  These just got unmolded tonight. They’re my first round of breast cancer soaps! Colored with french pink clay and red morrocan clay, these soaps are great for your skin (excellent facial soaps for oily skin!) and smell delicious. These are my breast cancer soaps. All proceeds from breast cancer soaps now and in the [...]