On cold nights, I find myself reaching for one of the many handmade throw blankets I have scattered throughout my house. Lacey, my dog, is d...

I took part in the best Christmas Gift Exchange where the theme was Handmade, Regifted, or Thrifted. I made my person some lovely chocolates...

I added a new seating area with a tempered glass topped side table to my front porch. I’m a little concerned about placing hot coffee cups d...

One day after refilling the conditioner in this hanging soap and shampoo Dispenser , The pump bottle refused to snap into place, lurched fr...

I found patches of black mold on our bathroom vanity, wall, and subfloor due to several micro leaks and needed to replace everything in the ...

For some baffling reason, two bedrooms in my house do not have wiring for ceiling lights. I’m not sure why the builder though that some fol...

 Do you know what is better than making little wood peg doll gnomes? Making GIANT wood peg doll gnomes! I made and donated a giant (well, ...

To try to keep the costs down where we could, replacing the bathroom vanity lights was not in the plan. I don’t love them but I don’t comp...

I planned to repair and reuse our bathroom vanity lights that had a wonky socket that wouldn’t stay lit for our master bathroom renovat...

One of my fellow renaissance festival performer friends, painted a set of wood peg dolls for her daughter to look like some of the character...

A Christmas Story is one of my favorite Christmas movies (I skip the problematic Chinese restaurant scene) because I was a kid living in the...

 Yesterday was the official start of the Fall Season and the weather decided to cooperate. With a 20 degree dip in temperature and overcast ...

One of the first questions I get when I'm wearing my Dutch clogs (called klompin. You can guess why) is are they a comfortable shoe to w...

We're celebrating Labor Day this weekend in the US which we traditionally consider the end of summer.  Our agenda is full of BBQs, gathe...

One of the funny things about being a historical entertainer is creating three layers of clothing and still be considered unseemly (by histo...

I'm in rehearsal for a show (all things being equal given the current health climate.) I'm hard at work breaking in my new ch...

Many parents are buying school supplies before their children start school (a few schools have already started!) It's much easier to tot...

The tomatoes on my plants started to ripen with a bad case end blossom rot last month because there wasn't enough calcium in the soil to...

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If you garden, one of the best zero waste ways to deal with food scraps is to compost them.  So what do you do when everything breaks down i...