The Artist Notebook is a blog by Lake & River Studio, merged with Just Add cloth, featuring articles, news, latest works, and more.

Saving A Botched Soap Batch: Lavender Orange Lye Soap

Saving A Botched Soap Batch: Lavender Orange Lye Soap

A botched batch? Noooooooooooo! It happens to all of us eventually. You swear you measured every ingredient perfectly and followed procedure precisely, but…….that soap batch is not setting up right. While a castille soap can...
How to Create Consistency in Your Art Collection

How to Create Consistency in Your Art Collection

Collecting art can be intimidating. It can also be fun. Some collectors will be strategic and only ever acquire a particular type of art creating a very cohesive collection. Others might just collect anything that...
Crunchy Coconut Chocolate Cookies

Crunchy Coconut Chocolate Cookies

Crunchy Coconut cookies with Chocolate I had a yearning for Almond Joys, but we seem to be in an Almond Joy shortage in the Midwest lately. I blame Covid. I love coconut. Not love it...
A Quick Guide to Raising Ducks

A Quick Guide to Raising Ducks

Greetings fowl lovers of all kinds. You probably started off with a few chickens of a hardy, generic variety, then fell victim to chicken math and expanded your flock to include all kinds of fun...
Spicy Pineapple Chicken with Ginger Recipe

Spicy Pineapple Chicken with Ginger Recipe

  I love a good stir fry. LOVE IT. The problem is they can be rather time consuming if you don’t have the meat pre-cooked or veggies pre-chopped or what have you. And then spend...
How Playing A Competitive Sport Improves Life Skills

How Playing A Competitive Sport Improves Life Skills

For far too long we have had a stereotype in this country of a “dumb jock” and it needs to end. We are in desperate need of a paradigm shift when it comes to how...