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Make Your Own Clay Using 3 Household Ingredients

June 9, 2020

Making your own clay is a very simple process. In this post, we are going to use 3 household ingredients: Water, Baking Soda, and Cornstarch, to make an easy clay recipe that you can use to form...

Trash Tutorial: Fire Starter

May 18, 2020

We’ve got another trash tutorial for you! Toilet paper seems to be a hot topic these days, but what do you do with the roll when you finish? If you find yourself throwing away these little...

Trash Tutorial: Coffee Hand Scrub

May 11, 2020

With the current pandemic, many of us are reducing the number of trips we take to the store, and trying to stretch our resources as best we can. But what about food waste? Did you know that many of...

Log Hewing

May 8, 2020

Curator Barry Stiles takes us through the process of hand-hewing a log. All log cabins in this region of the mountains were made of hewn logs. This was a process for squaring-off logs to make...

Simple Homemade Cloth Napkins

April 29, 2020

In this day and age, disposable items have become a way of life. So much so, that when there is a shortage of items, it becomes a major inconvenience for us. We often don’t stop to think about how...

Upcycled Yarn

April 24, 2020

Looking for a weekend project, but your craft stores are still closed? Try recycling those pesky plastic grocery bags into yarn! These plastic strips can be used like any other string in knitting,...

Woodstove Cooking Class: Southern Buddha Bowl?!

April 23, 2020

For cooking class this week, we’re taking a slight detour from the recipes in The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery. We are making a dish inspired by ingredients in the cookbook and flavors...

Homemade Cotton Mask Sewing Tutorial

April 15, 2020

With the shortage of masks, here is a simple tutorial on how to make a double layer cotton mask. Please note, these masks are still more porous than the recommended N95 masks, but can still help...

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