I have dabbled in all sorts of crafts and hobbies over my lifetime. I have always been somewhat of a homesteader, crocheter, and gardener. I’ve picked up knitting, painting, you name it i have probably tried it. Crafting and creating has been something I have enjoyed since childhood. BUT this story all starts with a luffa..

In the Spring of 2025, my saint of a mother-in-law gifted my husband and I a multitude of different plants to start our first garden together. If you didn’t already know natural luffas, come from a plant. That plant just happens to look a lot like a cucumber start.. Long story short, we had a luffa plant take over our cucumber patch by the end of the growing season here in Indiana.

Me, being the crafty DIY girl I am, decided I’m going to make soap to put some of the accidental luffa crop we had an overabundance of in. By this time its winter and making soap for our friends and family quickly snowballed into creating entire Christmas themed baskets that included our soaps, crocheted wash clothes, sugar scrubs, and room sprays. (When i say snowballed, I mean SNOWBALLED)

After Christmas, our orders slowed down drastically. I found I had a lot more time on my hands now. That’s when i found my husband’s late grandmothers sewing machine. A beautiful Janome Magnolia that i quickly fell in love with.