My mum had a cookbook called Half A Can Of Tomato Paste And Other Culinary Dilemmas that sat on our kitchen bookshelf when I was a little kid. (I remember her explaining to me what a dilemma was one ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) – What if you could keep your bar of soap in the shower without molding for weeks? Now you can! Malena Chipps with Fancy That Antiques showed us how to make DIY wool ...

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Today, people buy loofahs and fancy sponges made from mesh (also called poufs) to clean and exfoliate their skin. Felting is an old textile form, dating back to 6300 B.C. Ed and Denise Burkart, owners ...

Until around 1916, making soap at home was commonplace. Using wood or plant ashes and leftover animal fats, families produced their own soap for cleaning their clothes and themselves. During World War ...

File this week’s Craft Corner project under “quick holiday gifts,” and don’t be surprised if it turns up again (in abbreviated form) in our annual “five gifts-ornaments in an evening” story later in ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Mary Murphy, from Wandering Cow Farm in Mechanicsville has made a name for herself in the Richmond area with her whimsical felted soaps. Mary stopped by our LIVE show and walked Host ...

FOND DU LAC - What’s a cross between a washcloth and a bar of soap? Felted soap. Crafters will learn how to felt special wool onto a bar of soap to create an all-in-one bathing delight at the 10 a.m.

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