Planning on making and decorating Christmas cookies today, and was reminded once more how I haven't seen those little silver ball sprinkles in stores in a long, long time. I don't even know why or when it first occurred to me to look for them, but over the last couple of years a cursory peek through the cake-decorating sections of local craft ( Read more... )

For the love of all things sane ( Read more... )

Well, that didn't last long.

My nursing necklaces will not be turning into a tidy little home-based business after all, thanks to the new CPSIA law that went into effect today.

I don't expect anybody who doesn't dabble in handmade materials for children to know about this, so let me give an extremely brief explanation: CPSIA was pushed through ( Read more... )

I just read this article on the yahoo news page about some experiment going on where researchers are girdling aspen trees (killing them by peeling off an outer layer of bark) in a specific area to make room for a more diverse deciduous population, in hopes that the new trees will be better at soaking up CO2 in an effort to combat climate change. ( Read more... )