With the harvest season upon us, it's a good time to have baskets and bowls on hand for picking fruit and vegetables. I got this idea from a friend and although it doesn't employ the craftsmanship that goes into traditional basket weaving, it's a way to make decorative bowls to hold your things that also look pretty cool.

This is a good craft to do together after one of your dinners, or in preparation for a dinner party. The supplies mostly consist of foraged items from nature, so I made mine after the upstate coven weekend, but if you have any leaves, dried flowers, seeds, twigs, or bones collecting at home, you can use them for this as well. If you have a wood burning tool, it's a really good opportunity to use it to personalize each of the names, otherwise you can use ink, pencil or charcoal.

I’ve had this dream of making shelves out of pallet wood for a while now. Since there are so many unused pallets all over the city, it makes sense to reuse their wood rather than buying new wood at a lumber yard the way it makes sense to buy clothes from a thrift store instead of buying it new- because the item has already been made and used, you’re not directly contributing to deforestation or human rights abuses by buying new things for cheap. 

I got the idea to make beeswax candles, adding dried roses, cardamom pods and rosemary to make it smell nice and look pretty but be warned that these candles burn viciously so make and burn them at your own risk and supervised.

http://www.malloryskitchen.com/post/74678322057/beeswax-candles-in-mason-jars

This is a DIY tutorial on how to make Macrame Plant Hangers. It’s a fun craft that requires few supplies and is suitable to large groups. There’s lots of room for creative differences and twists once you get the basics down.

After we had a devastating fire in our apartment this summer, it took some time getting the house back together. One of the very last things it took a long time to replace was the shower curtain, oddly enough. There are so many awful designs out there for shower curtains, ranging from the incredibly tacky to the ultra feminine, without many cool, rustic options. Even after trolling through fabric stores, I couldn't find a print I was really happy about, so I decided to just make my own and paint my own design on it.