A Handmade Life

I enjoyed the first attempt at soap-making so much that the boys and I made a second batch the very next day. Lavender is one of my favouri...

I can't quite recall for how long I have been wanting to make soap.  I've made all kinds of other goodies from scratch but never soa...

Our days lately have been a delightful mix of busy-ness and quiet times.  In theory this time of year is our "quiet time" - the ti...

Sunrises...that I don't have to get up super early to witness. Pumpkin bars. Erm... photo here if you'd like to see them...appa...

Yesterday I turned one of these into this. Such a lovely way to enjoy the pumpkin harvest. ;-) (this was such a nice variety of pumpkin to...

One of the tricky bits of being a maniacal gardener is the tendency to over-do it.  I love gardening and so I tend not to notice when I am o...

Sometime earlier I mentioned that I planted our potatoes in bins (you can see earlier photos here and here ) so that they wouldn't use ...