Another great gift idea - gilded votive cups

The Internet is a wonderful thing....I just ran across an idea that is so cool (and seems so easy) that I wish I had found it a few weeks ago.  I haven't tried it yet, but it looks fun!!

Basically you need a glass cup/jar/whatever, doily, glue stick, and Sharpie metallic paint pens.

Check out her blog - she has lots of great ideas with tutorials!

Skills that our Grandparents Had....

We have lost many of the skills that our grandparents and great-grandparents had - while some people still know how to preserve food, garden, etc., many of us have rudimentary skills at best.

I just found a really neat website called Save Our Skills which covers a wide variety of topics, from food preservation to home brewing to DIY projects to bushcraft - really interesting stuff.  Check it out!