• Blog - Kitchen

    "I like to melt stuff…"

    December 9, 2012 - By 

    I’m showing my age with that quote. 
    Remember the show  
    Anyway…I do like to melt stuff. 
    We have piles of crayons. I think they are reproducing in the cupboard. 
    I’ve recycled crayons many times with varying degrees of success. 

    Cheap dollar store variety and the free crayons from restaurants contain too much wax and not enough pigment. 
    The best ones are the Crayola.
    My technique:
    Spray mini muffin pan with olive oil to act as a release agent.
    Melt in a 230° oven for about 10 minutes. 
    Cool completely.
    Color.

    (I set the pan in the garage overnight to harden.)

    Now we have a fun, chunky set of crayons to spark some renewed interest in coloring…hopefully.

     

  • Blog - Crafts - Kitchen

    Good clean fun

    November 13, 2012 - By 
    I successfully made soap!! 
    I’ve been nervous to try it on my own but figured with the month of cure time for this cold process soap that I better get over it and do it.
    This is a coconut oil and olive oil soap with no added fragrance or color. Figured I better start with the basics and work my way up. 

    I have to tell you that I was super worried yesterday.
    I never got a good “trace” before pouring it into the mold. 
    So maybe I shouldn’t say that it’s a success yet….
    I’ll let you know in a month.

     

  • Blog - Kitchen

    Scrappy, scrappy

    November 11, 2012 - By 

    I’ve been working on loom knitting again. I have an order for 10 dishcloths and am expecting I’ll be getting a few more orders real soon. I decided to use some of my scraps of yarn to give some visual interest to these cloths.  Waste not, want not.

    As long as I was thinking scrappy…

     I put together the first in a series of journals. The cover is a print of one of my kaleidoscopes. I believe this one started as a rose.

    I love the look of all the different papers. It’s up to the recipient to decide how to use them.