I’ve made a lot of clay in my kitchen at this point, and cornstarch clay is the one I keep coming back to when I want something that just works, no fuss, no waiting around for the right humidity, no watching a batch crack apart while I sleep. If you’ve tried my Coffee Clay recipe…
I lose lighters constantly. My BIC lighter usually starts out on the counter, then somehow ends up in a drawer, the bottom of my bag, or somewhere I definitely don’t remember putting it. I wanted something that would make it easier to spot while also turning a very plain little lighter into something more fun….
When I started working with air dry clay, I made the mistake almost every beginner makes: I bought one bag of clay and figured that was all I needed. No rolling pin, no sealant, not even sandpaper. My first little dish turned out lumpy, cracked along one edge, and stayed slightly tacky for days because…
Lavender soap is a melt-and-pour bar scented with real lavender essential oil, often finished with a few dried lavender buds pressed into the surface or suspended through the bar, made without any of the raw lye handling that scares a lot of people away from soap making in the first place. It’s genuinely one of…
A clay soap dish is a small, shallow tray with raised ridges or drainage grooves built into the surface, made to keep a bar of soap up out of standing water so it doesn’t turn into a soft, dissolving puddle by the end of the week. That last part is really the whole point of…
I gave up on carving pumpkins a few years back, mostly because I got tired of the mess and the way a carved pumpkin starts looking sad and caved-in within about four days. Painting solved both problems at once, no scooping, no mushy pumpkin guts, and a finished pumpkin that actually lasts the whole season…
There’s a specific kind of outfit I reach for on days I want to look like I put thought into getting dressed without actually spending much time doing it, and almost every single time, it ends up being some version of boho. Flowy, textured, a little undone in the best way, it’s the aesthetic that…
Boho has always been the thread running through pretty much everything I do here, my home, the way I decorate, the way I dress, so it was only a matter of time before it made its way into this new fashion corner of the blog. I’ve been wearing some version of this exact outfit, a…
A friend of mine turned 42 this year and mentioned, almost as an aside, that she’d stopped buying trend pieces entirely, not because she felt like she had to, but because she genuinely didn’t want the maintenance of a wardrobe that expires every season. That comment stuck with me, because it’s really the whole idea…
I spent a weekend going down a genuine rabbit hole of runway recaps and trend forecasts trying to figure out what’s actually coming for 2026, not the vague “everything old is new again” kind of prediction, but the specific colors, shapes, and pieces fashion insiders keep pointing to. A few patterns showed up again and…