We recently starting making our own natural lip balm and love it! This calendula lip balm is made using pure beeswax, calendula infused oil, shea butter and sweet orange oil. Calendula has great anti-inflammatory properties and is also known for…
A New Life for Old Quilts: An Interview With Farm Down the Lane
Meet Tami Voth of Farm Down the Lane, an Ohio-based maker that repurposes vintage quilts into beautiful heirloom treasures. Tami lives in Ohio on an 11 acre farm with her husband where she sews, gardens and tends to their alpacas…
How to Make Beeswax Candles in Recycled Jars
I love glass jars and a good repurpose— so let’s turn some of those jars into beeswax candles! Saving containers for reuse is my favorite thing ever, and reusing what you can is such an important sustainable practice— certain materials…
Homemade Fruit and Vegetable Wash Recipe
I love making our own cleaning products and we have been making our own veggie wash for several years now. It’s always a good idea to wash your produce, whether you grow your own vegetables in your garden or purchase…
DIY Hand-Rolled Beeswax Candle Valentines
We made quite an impressive batch of hand-rolled beeswax candles this year to give out as gifts, so naturally we also had to make them into valentines! You can make six of these smaller candles out of each single 8”…
DIY Heart-Shaped Beeswax Cookie Cutter Candles
Here’s a fun heart-shaped candle that you can make for Valentine’s Day using beeswax sheets and any heart-shaped cookie cutter that you already have. I use a 2″ cookie cutter for the larger candles and a this cookie cutter for…