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We’ve used 19 pounds of soap in the last week in two classes, and you know it was good clean fun! 42 tweens and teens now know how to make melt & pour soap, and I suspect there are some moms who will be given some of these treasures for Mother’s Day in May (and,...
This is the second of two sushi making classes we enjoyed with our youth group to celebrate World Culture Month (as if we need an excuse to make sushi), and I admit I’m a bit of an addict. Raymond taught the actual sushi making – kappa maki and a California cone – and I taught...
I admit I’m addicted to stencilling because it gives me a chance to make funky personalized t-shirts and other fabric items with an X-acto knife, some freezer paper, and fabric paints. My How’s That Made group has spent the last two weeks stencilling. Week one, we learned how to make stencils. Week two, we decorated...
Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us, and the best way I know of to tell someone you love them is with loads of chocolate. So why not make your own? It’s easy to make chocolate bark – get something you want to add to the chocolate, like cinnamon hearts, almonds, macadamia nuts and coconut,...
More awesome creations from our craft group where we had a little fun with fleece! Jay’s Bob-Bomb in fleece is a work of art (it’s a character in Mario Brothers’ games) that took him the full two hours, and they had great fun making scarves and pillows with appliques in the group. Fleece is a...