My mum had a cookbook called Half A Can Of Tomato Paste And Other Culinary Dilemmas that sat on our kitchen bookshelf when I was a little kid. (I remember her explaining to me what a dilemma was one ...

File this week’s Craft Corner project under “quick holiday gifts,” and don’t be surprised if it turns up again (in abbreviated form) in our annual “five gifts-ornaments in an evening” story later in ...

Making felted-soap is good clean fun A Cape Breton woman’s felt-covered-soap is a beautiful solution for slippery bars.

Today, people buy loofahs and fancy sponges made from mesh (also called poufs) to clean and exfoliate their skin. Felting is an old textile form, dating back to 6300 B.C. Ed and Denise Burkart, owners ...