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
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
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 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
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
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
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...