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A year ago this week, I bought a pack of pre-cut 12” x 12” cotton squares and a bag of bee’s wax pellets. Having already stocked the pantry with every staple I could think of, and the bathrooms with as much toilet paper as I could order, my attention turned to crafty projects that I was sure I would have nothing but time to complete. (Side note: I am not crafty or even DIY-adjacent.) Among my goals: making my own wax paper with which I would wrap my regular bounty of homemade sourdough bread. A year later, I have baked about half a dozen loaves – most of them edible, a couple not, none Instagram-worthy – and the cotton squares and wax pellets remain... READ MORE