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How to make garden stepping stones using colorful sea glass. This project requires only a few inexpensive materials including glass pieces. Sea glass can have romantic origins — it could come from old Victorian bottles or broken glass from a shipwreck. Most of the time it comes from modern-day bottles. Most of the rubbish that…
Make Christmas Tree bath bombs with beautifully scented essential oils, colored minerals, and naturally-fizzy ingredients. Quick and easy to make handmade gifts that include a DIY video These delightful little trees of Christmas happiness will win you some major brownie points this holiday season. They’re simple to make, and if you stick to just one…
Step-by-step process on how to decorate a fresh Christmas wreath with foraged greenery, berries, and dried fruit. Also includes how to create a wreath base using willow Fresh Christmas wreaths are a great way to use natural materials to create beautiful handmade holiday decorations. They’re an alternative to plastic or expensive fresh wreaths and are…
An introduction to five creative ways to make handmade soap at home including cold-process, hot-process, liquid soap, melt-and-pour, and rebatching There are a number of ways to make handmade soap. You could start from scratch, and choose every single ingredient. If you’re unsure or want to save on time, there are other methods you could…
Celebrate the winter solstice with these creative nature crafts, supporting wildlife in winter, warming food recipes, and experiences. When the last leaves fall into the dark of early December, we all feel it. The skies are cold, no matter if they’re grey or blue. Blasting wind batters our faces, but most of all, we lose…
A collection of natural soap making recipes including floral, citrus, herbal, vegetable, spice, and farmhouse soap recipes. Simple and beautiful soap ideas suitable for beginner soap makers and the more advanced. Okay, you’ve made your first simple soap making recipes and are pretty much hooked. Now you’re scouring the internet looking for even more inspiration…
Step-by-step process on how to felt soap to make a natural wash cloth. Materials required are sheep’s wool, a bar of soap, water and liquid soap Felted soap is essentially a bar of soap plus a natural wash cloth built in one. The layer of matted wool surrounding the bar can extend the life of…