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Canning Jars: Not just for canning

What will you fill your jars with at your house? Be creative, even after they are beyond their canning career.

Canning Jars: Not just for canning

What will you fill your jars with at your house? Be creative, even after they are beyond their canning career.

After the flood...

It's now been five months since our store flooded. The clean up is long since completed, the store is open, and it's a good time for reflection. Here are some...

After the flood...

It's now been five months since our store flooded. The clean up is long since completed, the store is open, and it's a good time for reflection. Here are some...

Apple Adventures

Today, I put off canning tomatoes to make applesauce, which is currently bubbling in a crock pot behind me, turning into apple butter overnight.

Apple Adventures

Today, I put off canning tomatoes to make applesauce, which is currently bubbling in a crock pot behind me, turning into apple butter overnight.

Carbide Lamps: A real piece of history

There are few guarantees in life, but if you have a lamp or lantern, calcium carbide and water you can rest assured you can always have light.

Carbide Lamps: A real piece of history

There are few guarantees in life, but if you have a lamp or lantern, calcium carbide and water you can rest assured you can always have light.

Sun Printing

Sun Printing

Using photosensitive paper and fabrics, you can pare down the photo process to create simple, yet beautiful, "sun prints"...

Sun Printing

Using photosensitive paper and fabrics, you can pare down the photo process to create simple, yet beautiful, "sun prints"...

History in Trees and Pianos

In tiny, sometimes imperceptible ways, they left their mark. But if we take the time to investigate and listen carefully, they will speak to us.

History in Trees and Pianos

In tiny, sometimes imperceptible ways, they left their mark. But if we take the time to investigate and listen carefully, they will speak to us.