Beeswax Candles
Sometimes the project doesn’t need to be complicated, it doesn’t need to take months, you can just melt some wax, and pour it over string and dried mint, and smell…
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Backyard Landscaping and Sitting Space
We pulled the grass in the back up by hand… because there was not very much of it. I added a line of pavers, and our in-laws gave us a…
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Lawn to Garden, Early Stages
Some process photos of the first few stages of front lawn-to garden-transition. There were already two beds in front of the house, and the two freestanding boxes when we moved…
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Indoor Sanctuary
So the plants just keep getting bigger and bigger, and the light they need keeps expanding. Our new house is close to the homes beside it, so the side windows…
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Sprouts and Sunrooms
Our sunroom is south facing, and none of the windows open. I scraped the sunroom, primed and repainted the frames, ceiling and walls to cover up some old water damage.…
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Scraping the Sunroom
I recently got new glasses. Not just frames, my prescription got a lot worse. Suddenly, the sunroom’s peeling paint became a lot more noticeable…. The sunroom was water damaged at…
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Mosaic Tile Island
A puzzle you make as you go along. And who doesn’t want to hit tiles with a hammer? The island originally had wood laminate with sheets of glass tiles epoxied…
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Basement Railing Weaving
I used up my stash of hand spun and/or natural dye yarn to cover this railing. While it’s fine, it doesn’t go with the style of the rest of the…
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Kitchen Fun
What to do with a quite beat up kitchen in a pandemic. Some fun paint and “shale” waterproof contact paper to update it for the time being, and something fun…
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Mordant Block Printing
I used to do really craft based work. Somewhere along the line I stopped working with fibre quite as much, and started using alternative materials. Mordant printing uses a thickener…
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Where Are My Lady Bugs?
Where are all my ladybugs? every summer I let my dill go to flower and allure all of the pretty red ladies to my flowers to lay their eggs. Their…
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Plants and Pollinators: Winnipeg, Manitoba
The magic of soil, water and sunshine creating a new ecosystem. Bees and monarch eating nectar, aphids and spider mites eating the leaves, lady bugs and wasps eating the aphids…
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Among the Marigolds
I bought African Marigolds this year by accident, but the happiest accident. I’m just trying to blend in and not make too many waves
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Growing Forms, Free Standing
Growing Forms Fuzzy and Prickly, Smooth and rough, soft and hard, air and earth. Cacti and plants living in pots with decorative yarn outsides, soft and prickly, smooth and fuzzy.…
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Growing Forms: Hanging
Growing Forms Fuzzy and Prickly, Smooth and rough, soft and hard, air and earth. Cacti living in textile and soil pods, watered through the permeable layer of crochet wool containing…
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Cochineal Clouds: Natural Dye Dreaming
Two centuries ago no one could have imagined that something as valuable as cochineal, ranked alongside gold and silver as one of the great treasures of the Spanish empire, would…
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An Emerging Green Thumb
When I was a kid, I loathed gardening. I grew up in a rural area of Prince Edward Island and my parents are really into maintaining their four big gardens…
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Katrina Craig 