What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet     Well, yes.  There is that.  But once you hear (or see) something named it’s difficult to separate the thing from… Continue Reading

Fruit Leathers

Posse!… it’s January in the Midwest.  Leather Weather, right?  Welll..Not So Fast.  Here’s the thing: in the deep depths of Winter the ‘typical’ leathers, those heavy hitters like the Cuir de Russies (alladem) Mme. Laurent’s Treizieme Heures (yikes!!!) and the brutal,… Continue Reading