A little while ago I bought a whole load of old coffee bean sacks… And got the Best Free Cup of Coffee Ever. I had lots and lots of plans for what to do with my multitude of sacks… One of them was to make a Coffee Bean Sack Rug and I finally got around […]
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Craftastic! Make a Hanging Plant Pot Holder in 20 Minutes
Twenty minutes? Surely not? Oh yeh – totally possible. I love macrame. It feels like a bit of a leap to call this macrame – but it is. Macrame is making stuff out of knotted string. This Macrame Plant Pot Holder only needs 10.2 metres of string, a pair of scissors, a plant you want […]
Craftastic! Make Your Own Olive Oil Soap
I love to make my own soap – I know exactly what goes in to it, I know exactly how it is made, I save money and I love to make things! What is not to like? Apart from having to be super careful when handling sodium hydroxide it is like following any other recipe. […]
The Art of Fermentation
The Art of Fermentation* by Sandor Ellix Katz. It is encyclopedic in content and covers all the essential concepts of fermentation and processes of fermentation from around the world. Lots of them gluten free and vegan!
Best Free Cup of Coffee Ever
I bought a load of old coffee sacks the other day (craft projects ahoy! Look out for future posts for what happens to them…) and there were a few green coffee beans remaining in some of the sacks. So I gathered them up – there was maybe half a cup full – and I