Natural Dye using Onion Skins

Onion skins are an ideal natural dye. This is one of those kitchen scrap dyes, like dyeing with avocado seeds.…

Avocado Dye (with video!)

My freezer is littered with avocado pits. My husband, who organizes our small, family of five freezer, (no easy feat)…

Saturday morning I stood at our table preparing skeins for a mordant bath, lost in thought, when my 12 year…

A considerate bird planted a privet bush against my fence a few years ago. This simple act created a food…

Raising boys into men isn’t easy. Expectations from them, their expectations of me, setting boundaries, upholding them against young stubbornness…

Marigolds are one of the easiest flowers to experiment with due to accessibility and a simple dye process, yet here…

Last weekend I was overcome with creative restlessness. That emotion plus rain usually leads to a new project.…

Beans. I’m not a fan. However, black bean dye has the potential to make my favorite color – teal blue.…

Hello again. Things have a changed a bit around here- in real life and cyber life. First — I let…

These Gymnopilus sp. mushrooms sat on my new picnic table (built by my husband) for a few days before I…