Category: skill building
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Apple butter with home grown apples
Made a big batch of spiced apple butter from one of the trees apples last night! One of the trees was dropping a lot of apples prematurely due to insect damage. I don’t use any insecticides on the acreage, and since I haven’t been here even a year, am still working on establishing other systems…
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Woodland Restraints / Spreader Bars
This is my second attempt at making some homemade restraint / spreader bars for bdsm / kink purposes! I wanted to share a bit of my process as I experiment and learn how to make some of my own equipment. I’ve had a lot of fun trying this out! This piece is still very imperfect,…
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Foraged St John’s Wort, 2 ways!
I’m still very much in the early stages of recovery from my hip surgery, but I’ve been able to work on a few projects here and there! Here is St John’s Wort two ways, with the help of my partner! Alcohol tincture, and topical salve, using local raw beeswax from @soilandhive! The topical salve is…
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Solidarity looks like…
For me, solidarity looks like enduring brambles, thistles, mosquitos, full body rashes from grasses, asthma attacks, bugs on everything all the time, and MCAS attacks to everything around me, even right before surgery, even through med changes, so I can learn to make medicine for community and comrades. We have to get comfortable with being…
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homemade boot polish – beeswax, oil, and charcoal
Something I’m trying for the first time! I got into boot-blacking and leather care through the BDSM community, and thought it would be neat to try making my own boot polish! This one is made from beeswax, sunflower oil, and charcoal from the controlled burns I did over the weekend. I’m excited to try it…
Dani Shapira 