Natural Potpourri Squares Tutorial

Making your own potpourri is a very easy project to do.  Placing sachets in your clothing drawers make your clothes smell fresh and clean.  Plus making your own potpourri means that you can customize your own blend with your favorite fragrance or essential oil.  This beginning tutorial from The Soap Queen is called Natural Potpourri Squares takes about 30 minutes and yields about 6-10.  This is the perfect activity for a bridal or baby shower or any other event that you may be having.

How to start a blog – advice from a full-time blogger!

Well, congratulations!  You finally decided to take the plunge and decide to finally do a blog.  Are you abit scared?  Well, you do not have to be.  You do not have to have a lot of technical skills to create one.  So if you want to learn more, I found this posting from the Mod Podge Rocks! blog called How to Start a Blog - Advice from a Full-Time Blogger. There are a lot of web hosts but the most common ones are Blogger (which I use) and Wordpress.  So read this post and see what information you can use. Good Luck and welcome to the world of blogging!

Natural Laundry Soap + Natural Dryer Sheet Recipe

Did you know that you can use any of your lye heavy cold process soap that you may have on hand use for homemade laundry soap?  Yes, you can.  Lye-heavy is too hard for your skin but it works great on dirty clothes that need extra cleaning.  Would you like to find out how to make homemade laundry soap?  I found this posting from The Soap Queen called Natural Laundry Soap + Natural Dryer Sheet Recipe that tells you how to do it.

Rose Clay and Madder Root Powder Cold Process Soap

When The Nova Studio was having their studio sale, I wound up purchasing some clays and powders to color my cold process soaps.  I have been using ultramaries, etc. to color my soaps and I wanted to try clays and powders in my soap. I was really not sure how much to use so I was looking for any recipes that included clays or powders that use these ingredients.  I have not try using them yet, but I did find a cold process soap recipe from Lovin' Soap that uses rose clay and madder root.  The posting is called Rose Clay and Madder Root Powder Cold Process that looks really interesting.

How to Make a Handmade Business Cards

Are you just starting off your new business?  Do not have alot of extra money to get business cards?  How about creating your own?  I found this project that was posted on Totally Tutorials called How to Make a Handmade Business Card which originally comes from the blog Creative Khadija.  I think these business cards are really cute and really easy to make.  You should give it a try.