Popping in to say hello, and a special thanks to someone who called herself the "other Leslie." She left a very nice comment abou...

The older I get, the less I can multitask. There was a time when the blog was my main artistic outlet, but life has shifted, and now ...

John Adair had little liking for the simple life; he said it was not simple, but the most damnably complicated method of wasting time that h...

Lookee what I got for Christmas!  A colonial style mold for taper candles.  For awhile now, I've been collecting beeswax from our hives...

Where did November go? Eep! Every autumn brings on squirrely behavior. So we've been busy. The nip in the air sparks an urge to pu...

The honey, of course; but besides that, I've been saving the wax cappings from the comb we extracted.  My son Alex designed the...

"'Here's my pretty lady!' he said, bowing to the hobbits. 'Here's my Goldberry all clad in silver-green with flowe...