Category: Crafts

How To Make Soap The Easy Way: A Step-by-Step Guide

Making soap can be a fun craft project for all ages!  I make them for my own personal use because most commercially made soaps simply don’t compare to good handmade soaps.  Also, I have fun choosing the base and fragrance combination to make my own perfectly customized bars of soap.  It’s also a great project …

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Father’s Day Craft: Footprint Poem

With Father’s Day coming up next month, I thought now would be a good time to get started on posting a few Father’s Day Craft.  I decided that I would start off with a real tear jerker of a gift idea.  This is one that I made for my husband on his second year of …

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Soap Recipe Using 3 Grocery Store Oils

Making homemade soap is fun and rewarding for me, however I don’t always have the time or money to shop for a long list of specialty oils. This is when a simple trip to the grocery store will suffice. You can make some very fine soap with oils found in most every grocery store. The …

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Easy to Make Stamped Candles

I love candles whether they are tall, short, scented or plain; there is just something about surrounding myself with lit candles as I either work or simply enjoying a good book.  Candles can be very personal but I have found that the most personal candles are the ones that you make yourself. My personal favourite …

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New Year Crochet Project: Temperature Blanket

At the beginning of last year, I posted how to make a colorful temperature blanket. This is a fun way to commemorate the year and blend all of these wonderful colors into one project. Here is a picture of the beginning of this year’s temperature blanket, on top of last year’s temperature blanket, which I am …

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Crafty Recipes: Super Bubbles

With summer here, kids are going to be outside a bit more than they were during the winter months and that means that parents will need to have a few more outdoor activities for their kids to enjoy. Since everyone loves bubbles, why not have a recipe ready to create gallons upon gallons of bubbles …

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2020 Project: Snow, Rain, or Shine Temperature Blanket

I like having a New Year project, changing up something and setting a goal, even if it’s a small one. So this year I’m going to have a go at crocheting a temperature blanket, where you crochet one row a day, and the color of yarn corresponds to your local temperature. One thing that I’m …

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Lemongrass Jasmine Green Tea Soap

This weekend I’ve combined some of my very favorite fragrances for a fresh, invigorating soap: lemongrass and tea. I’ve chosen Jasmine green tea because of the wonderful scent and I thought it would go well with lemongrass. For this soap recipe, I used organic lemongrass essential oil, not fragrance oil, which is stronger scented and …

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Mummy Candles and Pool Noodle Pumpkins

Mummy Candles Mummy candles are also fun and so easy that even a two-year old can do this activity. Let’s face it, part of the reason those twos are so terrible is because they are old enough to know things are going on around them, but at the same time they just cannot do very …

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Free Pattern: Crochet Coasters

Sunday morning: I had some of this pretty petunia colored yarn leftover and decided to make a set of coasters with it. This pattern uses a single crochet spiral to form each coaster, rather than finishing off each row. I like the look of the spiral and it makes for a fairly simple pattern. It …

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