I just got back from a two week trip to Europe and this is me this morning as I contemplate what projects I want to work on in the coming weeks. My mind is still a blank and a bit fuzzy as I try to adjust to the 8 hour time difference between Utah and the Netherlands s...

I am not a big fan of fresh cut flowers. Don't get me wrong...I think they are beautiful and they smell wonderful and they add a nice touch to a home or office or room of any sort. My problem with fresh cut flowers is that they die in just a few short days. I hate spen...

Dog Paw Wax

6 oz Beeswax 

6 TBSP Coconut Oil

6 TBSP Avocado Oil

6 TBSP Calendula Infused Olive Oil

1. Combine ingredients in a saucepan.

2. Place over medium heat, stirring until melted.

3. Pour hot oils into a container (allow oils to cool slightly if necessary).

4. Set in a...

We had beautiful, warm fall weather in Northern Utah this year which extended the vegetable growing season all the way into late November! I usually tear out my garden sometime in October because an early frost has most likely already damaged my vegetables but that was...

Recently, I was asked to teach a soap making class for a group of about 30 ladies but due to time constraints and the concern about the dangers of working with lye, I couldn't actually make soap with them. My solution was to create a video tutorial in which I explained...

My daughter took a ceramics class in 7th grade and one of her assignments was to create a whistle that looks like another item. She chose to make her whistle look like an old Polaroid camera. These cameras were quite popular when I was young so I recognized it right aw...

My husband is an artist and as such, he has a creative mind which works very differently than my logical, orderly mind. So when he told me that he wanted to take a picture of some of his art supplies, I could not imagine how that would be interesting. He sure proved...

My husband and I made a huge batch of soap to give to our neighbors for Christmas this year. We didn't intend for the batch to be quite so large but here's what happened. We were reworking our basic cold process soap recipe because we were out of castor oil and we w...

A couple of days ago we harvested the last of the carrots from our garden. They were such a fun variety of shapes, sizes and colors that I mentioned to my husband that they would make a fun SHOTBOX post. The picture below is what I had in mind. Dump the lot of carrots...

My son likes to build with Legos. He enjoys the kits that provide all of the pieces and the instructions to create a specific item but he really likes being creative and coming up with his own designs. He was pretty proud of himself for making these Pokeballs (a critic...