It was a great weekend for family and community – getting back to ‘normal’ after Covid, or during Covid (the idea that we are past the...

I did my first craft fair of the year this weekend, and it was a wild ride of pulling everything together after the crazy run of fairs...

I’ve made it. The top of the career ladder: a corner office with great views, desk just how I like it. Coffee on tap. I can choose my...

It’s that time of year again – a few brilliant days of sunshine and you think you can leave the house without a jacket . . . only to run...

Winter shows its face after Christmas. This year especially, January and February have brought gales, storms and ice to harden the earth...

Next week, on the first of March, I’ll be starting a round of #MarchMeetTheMaker, a social media challenge run on Instagram every year...

Different ingredients result in a different final product, so how you incorporate them into a soap recipe is important.

The benefits of using essential oils are well documented, and you can take advantage of these benefits by choosing natural products like the

I’m going to take a wee break from my series about soap making to write about something else: book club. I don’t belong to a book club,...

“How do you make your soap?” is a question I’m often asked, and like anyone who loves what they do I can talk about it for hours. And I...

We’re just over two weeks into the new year – how’s 2022 starting out for you? One of my #gardeninggoals this year was to take some good...

Happy New Year everyone from my family to yours! It’s great to be back. This morning I was up again for my morning meditation and yoga...

So here it is! The last blog post of the year. It’s been a good one, overall. Even with all the challenges and heart ache, as I sit here,...

The last working weekend of the year. I came home from a morning running errands to a dining room table full of parcels. Okay, maybe not...

Both girls will be back at school tomorrow, and we will be able to start making plans for the next couple of weeks. We’ve been in...

Lismore is undoubtably a beautiful place to visit, with breath-taking scenery that will uplift your soul in any weather. It is rich in...

I’ve said before that I am not a good candidate for a pandemic: if this were a dystopian movie, I would be the hysterical woman at the...

After all the making, wrapping and packing up, on Thursday I drove to Aberdeen for Crathes Castle Christmas fair. It was time to get my...

It’s all go here at Shepherds Cottage. Getting ready for my first Christmas fair is vastly different to getting ready for any other fair...

I’ve made my Christmas cake, have you? I never wait for Stir Up Sunday – the traditional day for Christmas pudding or cake making,...