finds week of June 10
- From The Splendid Table podcast:
- two places to get coffee that roast it fresh when you place your oder: Terroir Coffee and Barrington Coffee
- Oldways food advocates. Here you can view the Mediterranean food pyramid, as well as other food pyramids and more
- How to make coffee essence for use to make various coffee drinks as well as granita and mocha sauce:
1 pound ground coffee + 11 cups water + 11 hours on the counter. Strain, and keep in fridge for up to two weeks. - From Craftzine:
- An Alabama Stitch Flickr Group, The Alabama Chanin blog, book, and a birdie t-shirt tutorial I like (these last three I have looked at before, but forgotten about until the Flick'r post.)
- Marble sun-catchers
- How to make soft baby shoes
- From Cool Mom Picks:
- Mom-a-licious cook book, put it in my Amazon cart as it got good reviews, looks like recipes are quick, and she relies on organic and healthy ingredients.
- Konfidence swimming jacket
- Blurb photo books
- From Craft Sanity and the Lilly Bean Market felt food, a tutorial for felt fortune cookies.
- From Parent Hacks:
Homemade, natural insect repellent
From Heather, just in time for summer camp-outs:
I have a pseudo-hack. It’s a recipe for all-natural bug repellent and it works as well as “Deep-Woods Off." I found this recipe many years ago in a local newspaper. The article, which I still have, credits a book called Healing with Herbs by Penelope Ody. I do not have the book but do have the yellowing newspaper article tucked away in my recipe box. Oh, and I call it a pseudo hack because it is easier to buy the canned stuff than create this concoction. However, if you don’t want unknown chemicals on your precious darling's skin OR if you don’t want to smell like you’ve been dipped in a flea bath, this insect repellent really works.
Basic recipe: In a bottle, mix 4 drops of eucalyptus, 4 drops of lavender, 4 drops of rosemary, 4 drops of tea tree essential oils with 1 teaspoon of witch hazel and 4 teaspoons of water. Shake the mixture and apply directly to skin.
Bug spray variation: Add the same mixture of oils to 2 teaspoons of witch hazel and 8 oz of water. Put this in a spray bottle and shake. Spray this directly on the skin.
Oil rub down variation: Add the same mixture of oils to 5 teaspoons of olive oil. Rub the mixture into your skin.
