Nature's Trace

Spring and all its finery is slowly dissolving into summer. Trees are all leafed out and Linden nearly ready to bloom. Babies are fledging and finding their feet. It's growing season, planting and starting, greeting fresh shoots from the annuals and plants that reseeded.

If you're in the garden like me these days, and working up a good sweat, Charcoal Sea Salt is a great summer companion! The peppermint and lavender scent is invigorating and soothing, and the tiny charcoal particles feel amazing on the skin. I call this my, "head to toe bar" because you can wash your hair, body and face with it!! Highly recommend you add it to your shower or sink 🫧

What are you planting this spring? 🌱 (Literally or metaphorically!)

A little something to celebrate spring 🌱

Meet The Rainbow Connection Collection! This set includes 6 bars of soap. This is the same soap recipe you know and love, just a different shape and size and without the gorgeous labels.

This collection is something I've been wanting to do for a while! To clear out some essential oils and fragrances I only used once or rarely used and there's just a wee bit left in the bottle. As such, these are very limited edition. If there's a scent you love there's a good chance I'll never make it again, since I put the last of it into these bars.

Rest assured, the soap is the same recipe you know and love, just a different form factor and without the gorgeous labels. If you've been reading along for awhile and haven't tried our soaps yet, now is your chance to get great soap at a great price! If you don't need 6 bars, give the extras to your Mom (hint, Mother's day is May 10 😉

Scents you can expect include Cedar, Spiced Mahogany, Amber, Ginger, Patchouli, Passion Fruit and Guava, Mango, Ylang Ylang, Pine, and Gardenia. Think clean/fresh, woodsy/earthy, citrus/fruity, and warm/floral.

I hope the name of this collection and the colors evokes all the delight of spring, and reminds you of the beloved song celebrating stargazing, rainbows, our gorgeous planet, and the beautiful and sacred mundane that holds us all together. 🌎

April 2026. No filter. ✨

The beautiful and sacred mundane of the every day has been filling my heart lately. Here's some of what I've been up to:

1. Studio view

2. Rainbow Connection Collection release coming this Saturday (check your inbox!!)

3. Transplanted a Service Berry bush to the community garden

4. Dogwood in bloom

5. Thrift finds

6. Charcoal Sea Salt restock

7. Airbnb soaps custom order

8. Alder cones? Not entirely sure. Anyone help me out?

9. The best cookbook

10. What happens when I clean my soap cutter

11. Honey bee visit on lunch break

12. Postcard ripped in transit, an accurate depiction perhaps on how fragile our civil rights really are

13. The best pencil sharpener ever (thank you for the rec)

14. Hilarious) questionable tin advertisement from 1960's America (work night shift, sleep, wake, drink?!)

15. Lake Michigan delights with family visiting

16. A house in Chicago

17. Learning about the incredible history of plants and healing practiced by black women in America who brought the tradition from their African ancestors

18. A bench that needs the same relief it has afforded so many

19. Work gloves for all the spring time outside things