Craft Knife

  I DO know what I'm doing. I didn't volunteer willy-nilly to teach seven teenagers how to pour lye into distilled water and molten ...

  I have several different cold-process soap recipes that I want to try, but we don't really *need* several simultaneous batches of soap...

  When my Girl Scouts were younger, I'd hear the leaders of older Girl Scouts gripe about the small selection of badges available for Ca...

I made a few new batches of DIY foaming soap , and I'm so pleased that I took that break from eating cookies, drinking eggnog spiced wit...

I mean I was there, obviously, talking her through it, but from start to finish, my kid's hands were the only ones to touch this entire ...

a write-up of the hand-crafted soaps of Soaps to Live by and a giveaway ! Hop over right now and enter that giveaway, becau...

a round-up of non-toxic methods to paint and seal wooden toys and a tutorial on setting up a soap carving activity for your kiddos

Okay, these days using a washboard probably isn't considered so much practical life as it is hands-on history, but if you've got any...

Willow's afternoon chore recently not only desperately needed doing, but was also sneakily educational, what with all that recipe readin...

I let my first batch of hot-process soap cure for a couple of weeks, just to be on the safe side since it was my first batch. We've all...

It's ridiculous, but soapmaking has been on my must-do list since...September? First, I wanted to find a new cold-process recipe, being ...