Art, beauty and well-ordered chaos

Here are some more of my paintings. The first two are integlio prints that are part of a poisonous plant Art Book project I did while I w...

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I've been wanting an 1830's day dress for quite some time. I finally made one for myself! Still have to make the corded petticoat ...

I've got 3 days before my biggest and (thankfully last) event of the year. I've been in high-gear production mode for the past 2 w...

In all historic clothing (pre-1870) the buttonholes are hand-stitched, and many after that have hand-worked buttonholes. Sometimes they wer...

There are several good directions on how to starch a ruff using the "soaking in starch" method. Here's a version using spray s...

I spent today canning & drying apples and making venison jerky. Mom made pickled & frozen peppers. Putting up the ...