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Men’s Christmas Gifts

November 29, 2007 By 2 Comments

Go! Naomi helped me get started on the men’s Christmas gifts. She pounded pumice for the pumice hand scrub, she picked cedar pine needles for the after shave, and she grated soap. At one point, she also flipped the Vita-Mix to HIGH too quickly which spurted soapy-borax-water all over the kitchen — oops! But no [...]

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Unmolding Soap from a Flower Tube

October 31, 2007 By 7 Comments

This is a Pampered Chef flower bread loaf tube (called Valtrompia). I got it at Goodwill for $1.99. I found another flower loaf tube on the same day at another thrift store, only that one had 5 petals (called merely Flower). They were brand new. I tried to sell them twice on ebay without success. [...]

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My Soap Molds

October 19, 2007 By 3 Comments

The mold I use most often for soap-making is a 99 cent drawer tray. Its dimensions are 14″ by 6″. One batch fills it up. Yesterday a friend came over to make soap with me. We not only used the drawer tray but experimented with filling a 3″ PVC pipe. Each mold received 1/2 a [...]

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Dining Room Chairs: Before and After

September 24, 2007 By 8 Comments

Today was the day to redo the dining room chairs. I did it over the course of the whole morning, in between helping the kids with their schoolwork. They thought it was fun to have the yucky chairs on which they were sitting replaced by new ones.   This is one of the worst chairs. [...]

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Framed Scripture

May 7, 2007 By 2 Comments

In addition to the crocheted cross bookmarks, Jeff’s mom will be giving a framed Scripture to all her Bible Study ladies at the end of the session. She picked the Scripture from Romans and I printed out 15 copies in a nice font. I doodled some simple whimsical flowers and vines around the Scripture on [...]

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15 Cross Bookmarks

May 2, 2007 By 3 Comments

I finished making the last of 15 crocheted cross bookmarks this morning. I took the project with me on my trip last weekend and finished half of them while visiting with my friends. They are to pass on to Jeff’s mom, who will be giving them out to the ladies in her Bible study at [...]

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Liquid Castile Soap Progress

April 18, 2007 By 2 Comments

Liquid Castile Soap Liquid Castile Soap! What a process… I cooked it for 6 hours instead of the 3 to 4 the tutorial said. I was waiting for the stages I was supposed to see, and I still didn’t see all of them. But when I finally tested it to see if it was translucent, [...]

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Liquid Castile Soap Begins

April 17, 2007 By 4 Comments

For years we’ve lathered up with Dr. Bronner’s Baby-Mild Liquid Castile Soap. Mikah uses it for his primary soap — ever since we figured out that his sensitive eczema-prone skin needs mild cleansers. And Jeff uses it for shaving and washing. It is a wonderfully mild, fragrance free (yet great great smelling) soap. We used [...]

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Paper Crafting: Small Envelope & Card

April 5, 2007 By 4 Comments

Two teenage sisters from our church gave us some thank-you cards they made from a template similar to the one I’ll share. The little cards were so cute! My girls and I made bunches of envelopes and cards ourselves not too much later. We tucked them in larger envelopes to send away in the mail, [...]

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Beeswax Candles

December 17, 2006 By 6 Comments

Here are a couple of the candles that my friend and I made on Friday. She brought a bunch of empty votives that she got at Goodwill for 15 cents each. Between that and all the little jam jars I contributed, we made a few dozen candles out of about 4+ pounds of beeswax. The [...]

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