Punk Gardener

I found some good introductory videos here:
at expertvillage.com

San Francisco, yesterday became the first U.S. city to ban non-recyclable plastic bags from use in retail stores. Not only do conventional plastic bags take up space in landfills—1,400 tons in San Francisco alone—they also require petroleum for their manufacture. City supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said, “We can’t sleepwalk into the future. The end of the [...]

I’ll start the infusion of coffee and cocoa into my oils, I think, and pick up some carrot root to use as a preservative. If all goes well, I’ll have some wonderful smelling scrubbie soap bars that will not be “clothed” in soapsacks (since they will be plenty exfolialicious on their own )

The shape fits in your hand nicely & the flower adds a little extra tickle & scrub action– all organic cotton, hand knit scrubbie & scent free pomace soap.
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an 80% olive oil bar (with coconut oil) as this weeks’ batch. Then again, I may not have the patience (it’d take forever to get hard enough to use, but it’d be a lovely batch for its humectant properties).
So maybe I should just do a nice coffee or cocoa scrub soap.
What do you [...]

The choice is your’s as I now have a felt wool as well as a cotton soap sack up for sale at my etsy store.

involves a double knit, handmade, all organic, no dye cotton soap sack full of 5 ounces of soapy goodness and is available now at my store
=)

There’s women displaced from the ever shrinking job market finding that the value added of having a full time home maker and/or crafter certainly outweighs the insanity of struggling to find meaningful and well paid work, there’s a return by a vocal minority to what they perceive as more traditional gender roles, there’s funky [...]

came in today & it felt so nice that I made the skeins into balls & knit up a cotton soap filled scrubbie!
No word from the painting company after I left messages & so I am going to talk to my apt. manager tomorrow. I’ll need to be reimbursed so I can at [...]