Featured Stories
How to Make Bath Salts, Soaps, Scrubs, and Balms
Making spa products started as a fun experiment starting with bath salts. Then came the Eureka moment.
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An Easy Lotion Bar Recipe
A DIY lotion bar may seem surprising, but there is nothing better to keep inside your knitting bag for small finger snags and scratchy places.
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Create Your Own DIY Cookbook
One day as I was looking through my grandmother’s cookbook, I got the idea to make a DIY cookbook to preserve our family recipes.
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How to Make Bath Bombs: An Easy DIY Gift
If you’re just starting your soapmaking journey, learning how to make diy bath bombs is a good first step.
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A Love for Weaving
When asked how long it takes to learn weaving, Linda says, “Well, I’m still learning! But it probably depends on your instruction method.
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From Start to Finish: Working with Textiles
Work with textiles is done with machinery now, but not long ago were created and crafted by hand, using the simplest of tools and devices.
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Learn How to Felt Wool for Fun or Profit
Usually, people think of sculpting as an art form using clay or stone. However, there are other media and methods that can be used, such as wool.
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How to Crochet a Scarf
When you know how to crochet a scarf, you have the foundation of skills needed to create almost anything from yarn.
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12 Benefits of Learning How to Crochet
What does “crochet” mean? Let’s start with the basics. Crochet is defined as the process of hooking thread or yarn to create fabric.
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Surviving a Weather-Related Power Outage
It’s all fun and games until it’s lights out. But a little preparation can help you survive a power cut or outage.
Losing power during summer is hot, sweaty, and miserable. You hold glasses of milk against your perspiring forehead then drink before the milk goes bad.
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Facts about Floods and Surviving Them
Tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes come on fast and strong. But floods can be just as devastating.
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How to Build A-Frame Pig Shelters
We have found that our A-frame pig shelters are the best protection for our pigs when raising pigs on pasture. Whether farrowing outdoors or just providing shelter to your adult pigs, some of the important things to consider are shape, space, dryness, and function.
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Matching Dyeing Techniques to Fibers
Experimenting with different plant sources from nature can yield an amazing range of color when dyeing wool or cotton.
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Safely Limbing and Bucking Trees
Bucking trees isn’t as easy as it looks. Learn how to limb a tree and buck wood safely.
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Know Your Firewood Moisture Content
Knowing firewood moisture content can make the difference between creating steam or heat. Most folks agree that water doesn’t burn, not unless you break H2O down into H and O, both of which are highly flammable, and that doesn’t happen in your stove or furnace.
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