Month: January 2015

How does the cold affect you?

How does the cold affect you?

I was standing at the bus stop the other morning… temperature on my cell phone said 7 degrees, and with wind chill it was at least -10 degrees.  My layers of coats, hoodies, hat, 2 pair of gloves, etc seemed like they did not help 

Why handcrafted soap?

Why handcrafted soap?

Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store.  TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would 

Have you considered Shave Soap?

Have you considered Shave Soap?

Once a staple of the edwardian man’s toiletry collection, and a common sight in old school barber shops, the concept of Shaving Soap has come in and out of popularity over the last century.  Until the mid 1950s it was a staple of every well 

More Art and Economic Thought

More Art and Economic Thought

  It is a rare bird these days who has not felt the economic shift since the collapse of 2008/2009.  Resources have grown a bit more scarce, and budgets a bit more tight.  To those who have been working a s full time artists before