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MAKING INCENSE, By Rebecca L. Brown

Posted in Making Things, tagged , , , on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Whilst shop-bought incense is a lovely way to scent your house, there is something much more personal and enjoyable about making your own. Making a basic incense is much easier than you would think. First, you need to decide what you want to use. You can make a range of fragrant herbs, flowers, dried peels, [...]

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START YOUR OWN RELIGION & GUERILLA PUBLISHING CLASSES: Two New Old workshops in Brooklyn

Posted in Making Things, New Old Traditions, News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

NEW OLD TRADITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM:3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY Start a New Religion, Mondays June 28, July 5, 12, 19, 7:00pm – 10:00pm In this class students will each write, design, and craft a new spiritual path (as far out or traditional as desired), to be summed up and presented at the end of the [...]

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YOGURT!: How to make it and yogurt cheese

Posted in Making Things, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , on June 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Making yogurt in our home kitchens is an easy feat, part of reclaiming the mysticism of food production. Indeed, it’s so easy, we must ask ourselves: why did we ever stop? Yogurt is of the oldest known ferments, and certainly one of the yummiest. Yogurt contains active live cultures of bacteria, collectively known as “lactobacilli,” [...]

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HOW TO MAKE THE “FOUR STITCH BAG”: Easy

Posted in Making Things, tagged , , on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Here is a step-by-step guide to making a simple bag perfect for containing, concealing, or carrying your various accouterments of witchery, revelry, or basic daily domesticity. Named the “Four-Stitch” bag for the simplicity of the four seams that comprise the construction, it’s a great way to re-use old clothes or fabric scraps you have laying [...]

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MAKE YOUR OWN LAUNDRY DETERGENT

Posted in Making Things, tagged , , on May 2, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Making your own laundry detergent is easier than making soup! It is also way cheaper than buying detergent from a store. If you do not have a car, you will not miss hauling laundry detergent home on the bus or by bike. You will not miss lugging large plastic jugs out to the curb for [...]

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DANDELIONS: Miracles in your front yard (plus dandelion tincture recipe)

Posted in Making Things, Wellness, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The dandelion is a much maligned meadow plant, a native of Europe. Americans fiercely and defiantly dig out and poison this miracle plant, for no obvious reason other than they think they should. I started thinking for myself, and I have found out quite a bit about this miracle plant.

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A CELEBRATION EVERY DAY: Sap Moon

Posted in Making Things, New Old Traditions, The Kitchen, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 24, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Food-wise, we are still in winter. In fact, we’re kind of in the worst part of it. The winter vegetables are tired and old, and we’re sick of them. But, other areas of our natural world are kind of a buzz. It’s spring, and we know it, and even if earth has yet to start [...]

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MAKING THE OLD NEW: The Fixers’ Collective

Posted in Making Things, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Stuff, stuff, stuff. At least once a month I pick an area of my little apartment and start trying to pick out stuff to pitch. Inevitably, the project ends quickly. Though it’s true that there’s always a bit more stuff around than we need, it’s also true that I’m relatively pared down to “things that [...]

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HOMEMADE GOLD: The quickest way to make butter

Posted in Making Things, tagged , , on March 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

1. FIND A COW

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GIFTS & GIVING: “When the Present is the Presentation,” by Zara Bode

Posted in Making Things, Series, tagged , , , , on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Continuing our series on “Gifts & Giving” honky-tonk singer-songwriter sensation, Zara Bode, offers a suggestion on how to make even a store-bought gift personal. Get out your blinders, put in your earplugs, and (if you haven’t already) throw your TV out the window. These are the precautions we must take in order to best avoid [...]

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WEB FINDS: “Buy Handmade”

Posted in Making Things, tagged , , on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

In the spirit of the recent comment discussions regarding bought -vs- handmade gift giving I thought I’d put a spotlight on the website “Buy Handmade,” which you can find here as a blog and here as a website with an “I pledge” thingy From the website: Buyhandmade.org is a collaboration between Etsy, Craftster, indiepublic, Craft [...]

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A NEW OLD HALLOWEEN 2009 RECAP: Decorating

Posted in Holidays, Making Things, New Old Traditions, tagged , , on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The New Old Traditions are an earthy bunch of holidays largely based around the progressions of the sun and the moon. As such, decorations that represent what’s happening outside are much appreciated, and allow for the gnarled outside to inform our squishy-gnarled inside. Twigs, leaves, lighting, and punch.

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