The gift-making continues around here, and after our perfume adventures, Keira and I decided to make some lip balm, too. For our first batch, we used a recipe we found online but it set much too hard. So we scraped out the little pots and re-melted everything and made a second and then third batch.…

I've been keen to try mixing my own scents for a while now, so I enlisted the help of my daughter Keira and we got started! It turned into a lovely activity to do together and we're both really happy with the perfumes we made for ourselves. We made some roll-on oil-based perfumes, and a…

Kia ora, hello! I've been absent from here for over a month – maybe the longest stretch ever! My apologies if you sometimes check in and found there was nothing new. It's been a busy one, but no more than usual, if I'm honest. In any case, it's lovely to be back here again today…

Greetings from the end of October! I hope this finds you very well, blog friends. I thought I'd stop in to share some of my recent makes and photos with you. Thank you, as always, for reading! I had a birthday recently and took a trip to the South Island to see family. I always…

It's avocado season here and as always, my family are taking advantage by spreading some on toast every morning, seasoned liberally with salt, pepper and lemon juice, of course! But it also means we have a lot of avocado skins and stones and they make beautiful dye material. I shared a couple of dye experiments…

Do you know about Soul Craft Festival? It's in its second year of online life, (after 1 year in-person, pre-pandemic) and it's happening through October! Over the past week, I've loved logging in to the Soul Craft portal to listen to the latest conversations and presentations. Soul Craft's mission is to present a festival of…

Hello there! It's been a while since my last post. I realised my fingers have been busy making things but I haven't been good at sharing them here on the blog. I don't like to be flippant about lockdowns because they're so hard on so many people. But one silver lining to our recent one was…

Kia ora, hello! I hope you are keeping well and safe. Crazy, heavy times in the world, eh? The most I can offer with this blog post is some distraction in the form of handmade items and ideas… thank you for tuning in regardless. I appreciate you, dear reader! The first thing I have to…

Hello! I hope you are very well, wherever you may be. It's been a little while (yet again…) but I thought I'd pop in to share some things I've been working on lately. This time of year is always busy, with work and other commitments. But as of yesterday many of us got some time…

I've not written here in a while – I'm going to blame the darker and shorter days! It is nice to be back today, though. I wanted to show you a bright colourful winter rainbow. I've recently had the joy of getting to know an older woman through my work – she's a playwright and…