Continuing to groove on the straight razor thing, and having made shaving soap and a strop, it seemed natural to make a brush. I'm do...

Violet's birthday is in October, Millie's is in November. They share many of the same friends. So the last couple years we have b...

I've been wanting to get into soap making for a little while now. I tried two tiny batches last friday night. We don't u...

Violet has been wearing her red and white regency girl's dress I made her in 2010 around with a bonnet, which is a great aid to pla...

The red and white regency dresses I made the girls for Joelle's wedding (see the recent Glories of the Past entry) were unfortunatel...

Today I will introduce a new feature here to tell you every week or so about a project done before this blog was started. Some of these a...

I've been slowly trying to accustom myself to the deep waters of straight razor shaving. Its slow going, but I figure after 100 sha...

As someone who grew up in California, there would be something terribly wrong if I didn't like sprouts at least a little bit. But th...

A decent drill press is a great thing to have in your shop. It might even be the one stationary machine I would choose to get first. Over...

Becky has been teaching Violet simple embroidery stitches these last six months or so. Her first project was three circles of different c...