An art supply company has hit the headlines by challenging paint manufacturers to rename their ‘flesh tone’ paints, but is ‘skin colour’ paint racist?

The time has come to make some cotton face masks, months later than everyone else who has a sewing machine and a fabric stash.

This is the third time I’ve lived in a house and been through a full bathroom gutting and renovation, and I never want to do it again. At least we’ve had a bit of fun with learning to solder copper pipe this week.

It’s been a long time coming but I finally got another sunny day to try testing Jacquard Solarfast dyes.* I started these tests way back in June but wanted to see if they could be improved.

Last week’s rubber press moulds yielded a strange, sticky-looking but poseable figure, but I wasn’t able to finish it enough to show. Instead, I thought I’d share how I spent the last few weeks designing a steampunk bathroom.