Soapy Hollow

When you first get introduced to the addiction that is making soap, it’s easy to buy your materials at the grocery store. But as your addiction grows, or you find that people are throwing money at you to buy your creations, or you suddenly feel a burning desire to do an arts and crafts show, […]

Many people have asked if I would put together a kit to make bath bombs. So I did. Here ya go. Note that the kit does not include molds, because I don’t have a supplier. And if I had to charge for driving around to find them at craft stores, then paying retail…well, nobody wants […]

Sorry about the lack of content this week. Not only did my blog blow up, but one of my potties did too, so there’s been much running around trying to fix it, then rip up the carpets, level and float the floor, find tile, and soon…lay tile. It’s been keeping me busy doing things which […]

So, the only way I can seem to get the site working is to use the default permalink structure…which sucks, as it makes the site significantly less search engine friendly. My poor server guys, who don’t support WP, have been so helpful, but WP really seems to dislike IIS, which is what we’re using because […]

Well, trying multiple themes and reinstalling has not fixed the problem. I think it’s possible my database is corrupted, and I may have to delete it and start all over. Hopefully, the WP export works and I’ll be able to restore all the content easily. I dunno. Comments now seem to be broken, the more […]

Working with small batches is often trickier than doing the huge batches I often do. But doing small batches lets you get all kinds of creative. Best of all, if you make a mistake, you’re not tossing out hundreds of dollars in materials. It’s fairly easy to “rebatch” a mistake batch when it’s a small […]

As I’ve noted before, Instructables has changed their business model, reducing access to content to non-paid visitors. Since all of my work was published under a Creative Commons non-commercial license, I’ve removed it from Instructables and am republishing it here, so the content stays free. Keeping in mind folks with data stream limits, I’ve used […]