As I’ve mentioned in a couple earlier posts, our kitchen regularly gets turned into a laboratory for various bath and beauty products, and recently Dave and…

Okay, this is the last soup recipe for a while. I promise other non-soup projects soon! But as long as I’m making up these recipes, I…

Is it spring yet? It is here in Oakland, and one of my favorite spring weekend things to do is to walk the neighborhood, or go…

Karen at craftermath, maker of lovely bags and beautiful, vibrant patchwork pillows, has tagged me to admit to 5 addictions. Yikes! So, after giving it a…

Those of you who know me know that I’m fairly obsessed with chickens. I don’t know what it is, but I just love them. In fact,…

Dave is desperately afraid of wasting away to nothing on his soup diet, and so I made today’s soup: cauliflower cheese. This is not one of…

Last night I went to see the SF screening of Faythe Levine’s Handmade Nation, in which she documents the rise of the d.i.y. craft movement in…

Today’s soup is a really hearty and delicious leek and potato soup. I changed it up a bit and added yams to this one… tasty! Leek…