Not to Eat...

In about 8 hours I'm going to be very happy: it's been like final exams all week with so much work, but it's wrapping up with a wedding tonight.  Then I'll be having a drink at one of my favorite tapas places and coming back to this Dewberry Sugar Scrub.  I just hope no one eats it before I get home!

This recipe from Martha Stewart calls for 2 cups sugar,

1 cup oil (I used grapeseed),

8 drops essential oil for scent and 1 drop of food coloring.

I used a little more sugar (around 1/3 cup more) and a lot more scent (a few times the amount called for), but it all came together.

So, I'm glad this will be waiting for me when the day is done. 
Happy Saturday!

Destress Me

I already know it's gonna be kind of a stressful week, so I figured I could use a little aromatherapy in my life.  I got some dried lavender at the flower market:

and got out my buckets of melt-and-pour-soap from Majestic Mountain Sage. 

For my Valentine's Day Heart Soap I used clear, but this time I mixed it with some white.  I took a suggestion from Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts and bought a mini loaf pan, and I already had some lavender oil from The Body Shop.

Then a little food coloring

and some time to rest, ahhh...

and then there were 6 little, purple bars.

There was a lot of lavender left so while I waited for the soap to set I sewed a sachet with the silk chiffon I got from Mood Fabrics and some purple cotton from Purl Soho.

I hand-sewed it since it was such a small piece and the fabrics were different weights and I didn't want to snag it in the machine.

Wishing you a peaceful week!

Renegade Brooklyn!

Here's where I'll be this weekend: so excited!  Pretty much the mother-of-all-craft-fairs, keeping my fingers crossed that the weather holds up.  Take a look at this lineup and check out my sidebar for other crafty happenings this weekend.  Will report back soon!

Always FREE-TO-ATTEND – our craft, art, design and DIY spectacular will feature over 300 of today’s finest indie-craft talents from all over the nation, free workshops, entertainment + other features

Crafting-guru and how-to author extraordinaire Lotta Jansdotter will be at the Fair leading interactive workshops furnished by Rowenta! Join Lotta in her innumerable craft pursuits – and learn a few new techniques while you’re at it!


Be sure to join the fantastic folks from ETSY.com at their hands-on booth! Stamping, sewing, printing – you name it! Etsy will guide you through many quick + simple, make + take projects!

Visit the BurdaStyle Make and Take Lounge, featuring the original OurGoods experiment, the Work Dress. Learn how to sew with BurdaStyle’s FREE Make and Take project: a Drawstring Bag with Bags for the People!

Join Brooklyn-based artist Aya Rosen in the Pébéo Creative Lab! Experiment with fabric, glass and porcelain paint provided by Pébéo at this free-to-participate workshop space!