Every December someone asks me to make “the chocolate soap,” and every December I have the same conversation about what chocolate soap actually is.
Lye water is the one part of soap making that nobody romanticizes, and I think that’s a mistake. It’s the step where a bucket of oil stops
Papier mache grows. Every layer you paste on adds thickness to the outside of the armature, and it adds it on both sides of the piece, so a 20 cm balloon
Glass that cools too fast keeps the stress inside it, and stress inside glass is a crack that has not happened yet. This calculator takes the thickest
A crocheted ball is three sections stacked on top of each other: increases outward from the magic ring, a straight-sided middle, and decreases that mirror
A boxed advent calendar is 24 little containers glued to one piece of board, and the piece of board is the thing people get wrong. This calculator takes
Fluid acrylic pouring lives or dies on the paint to medium ratio, and most wasted paint comes from mixing cups by eye and running short halfway through a 40×
Acrylic paint feels dry long before it is dry, and that gap is where most ruined paintings happen. This calculator takes the thickness of the layer you
Over the years in my cozy home studio, I’ve found deep satisfaction in turning simple natural ingredients into bars of soap that care for both skin
As a lifelong artisan who finds joy in transforming humble materials into treasures for the home and body, I stumbled into soap making years ago when my