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A simple-yet-elegant design for a wooden soap dish. Unlike many soap dishes, this looks as if it will not leave the soap melting in a puddle of water. DIY for those with woodworking skills.

This is the easiest and fastest photo transfer paper the artis has used! The shiny side of mailing labels, with Liquitex Gel Medium. When the gel medium is allowed to dry completely, this paper will provide a VERY clean transfer. In addition, the artist had no printer jam problems, as can sometimes happen with thin photo transfer paper.

Dissolve coffee in water, paint on. Different concentrations of coffee will give lighter or darker shades. I have tried a variant of this, soaking wood in instant coffee, and it worked.

Suggestions for using natural foodstuff to make dyes to stain wood. Not just coffee or tea, but spices (turmeric, paprika), berries (raspberries, blackberries), leaves (spinach, violet). This also notes that such dyes are not colourfast, and then suggests a beeswax + oil finish.