Naturally Dyed Eggs: A Lesson in Slow Crafting
Check out your pantry for ingredients to use in a homemade natural dye bath to use on your Easter eggs this year.
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Lavender Linen Spray
Scent is a really important element of home decor but it isn’t always easy making sure your home smells fresh and clean while avoiding harsh, chemical linen sprays. That is why I got really excited when I saw Design Sponge post this DIY lavender linen spray. A natural essential for every home and would make a really lovely hostess gift.
Tree Stump Table
17 Apart did it again with an awesome tree stump hair pin leg table. They really have a way of creating chic home decor, as shown in a previous CRAFT post on their DIY mercury glass vase.
Natural Dyeing
Book Review: Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess Review by Meara O’Reilly I recently experimented with using the oxalis plant (more commonly known as the weed sourgrass) to dye some towels a bright yellow. It was such an easy and rewarding process, I wanted to look around and see what other colors might be within reach! This book […]
101: Natural Dyeing
101: Natural Dyeing Everyday plants offer big color. By Judith Lange Imagine a world with no colored fabric. Look in your closet, at your furniture, at your towels and your curtains. Imagine everyone dressed only in white. Such a drab existence does not suit human beings. Long before Rit came in packets, color was everywhere. […]
Homemade Flea Repellent
Homemade Flea Repellent By Jessica Wilson Every summer I succumb to the wailing meows of our calico cat and let her roll around outside in the garden, and every summer the calico witch-baby becomes lousy with fleas. Making your own flea repellent will not kill those pesky fleas, but it does a dandy job of […]
Space weather sound receiver
This very low frequency radio reciever kit is sold by Nasa’s Inspire project – a group based around the study radio atmospheric phenomena, aka whistlers. These pulses occur in a frequency range audible to us humans (1 to 30 kHz) – and they sound quite mysterious an interesting. Listen to some samples – Spaceweathersounds.com VLF-3 […]
