Iceweb Homestead

Iceweb Homestead We are Gage, Lakota, and our 2 ruthless kiddos, homesteading on .19 acre in an urban area!

Lakota is a selft-taught gardener and is currently taking a course in permaculture. We took a plunge to become as sustainable as possible in an urban area.

03/19/2026

You can find the items at Artique Mercantile in Battle Creek MI!

✨ BOOTH RESTOCK ✨If you’ve been needing a little handmade joy in your life… this is your sign 🥹My booth at Artique Merca...
03/19/2026

✨ BOOTH RESTOCK ✨

If you’ve been needing a little handmade joy in your life… this is your sign 🥹

My booth at Artique Mercantile (Battle Creek MI) is FULL right now and everything is ready for its forever home 🤍

🐥 Brand new plush mushies just dropped (12 of them!!)
🐙 A cuddly purple octopus (+ mini ones here soon!!)
🐣 Adorable chunky chicks (these are ALWAYS a favorite for kids around Easter!)
🍳 Fried egg plushies & Chicken Coasters
🍅 Plush cherry tomatoes
🐢 Sea creatures (stingrays + more!)
🐍 Pink snake friend
🐱🐭 Loaf cat & loaf rat
🐛 Caterpillar
🧸 Gummy bears
🦭 Sweet little seal pup
🎃 Pumpkins
🥚 Easter eggs + bunny washcloths
🔑 Keychain stress balls

…and more tucked throughout the shelves 👀

⚠️ Fair warning: things tend to go QUICK (especially the chickens 😅), and I’m already seeing some items run low

If you stop by, tell me your favorite piece or what you’d love to see next — I truly make things with YOU in mind 🤍

Give something handmade a home 🫶

🐔 THE CHICKENS HAVE ARRIVED! 🐔I just finished a batch of these adorable handmade plush chickens and they will be heading...
03/05/2026

🐔 THE CHICKENS HAVE ARRIVED! 🐔

I just finished a batch of these adorable handmade plush chickens and they will be heading to my booth tomorrow morning!

✨ Infant safe (no safety eyes or buttons)
✨ Super soft plush yarn
✨ Perfect for Easter baskets, baby gifts, or little farm lovers

I only have 10 available and once they’re gone, they’re gone!

They’ll be waiting at my booth inside Artique Merchantile tomorrow.

🐣 Question for you:
What color chicken would you want if you could pick one? Brown, white, speckled, black… or something fun?

If you’re planning to stop by tomorrow, comment “CHICKEN!” so I know how many people are on the hunt for one 👀

These little hens are ready to find their new homes! ❤️

03/04/2026

What are you planting this spring?

I’ve had a few people ask what’s currently available at my booth inside Artique Merchantile, so I wanted to share a full...
02/27/2026

I’ve had a few people ask what’s currently available at my booth inside Artique Merchantile, so I wanted to share a full update! ✨

Below you’ll find everything that is currently in stock (photos included).

🌷 Easter items will be added next week, including jumbo plush eggs which are perfect for Easter baskets and safe for babies (no safety or button eyes).

🧶 Crochet Items Currently Available
• 2 Jumbo Sea Turtles (Pink & Green)
• 11 Chicken Coasters (White, Black, Brown & Tan)
• 3 Table Pumpkins (Pink, Dapple Black & Tan)
• 2 Bunny Folded Washcloths (Peach & White, Baby Blue & White)
• 5 Small Fried Eggs (Perfect for keychains)
• 4 Small Plush Tomatoes (Adorable desk buddies!)
• 3 Small Plush Stingrays (2 Purple, 1 Dapple Black)
• 8 Standard Small Stingrays (7 Peach & White, 1 Dark Blue & White)
• 1 Loaf Rat (Grey & White)
• 1 Loaf Cat (Tan, Grey & White)
• 2 XL Jellyfish (Blue & Green / Tan, Green, Blue & Orange)
• 1 XL Corn on the Cob (with removable leaves)
• 1 Caterpillar (White, Purple & Pink)
• 1 Octopus (Purples & Pinks)
• 14 Keychain Stress Balls (Yellow, Blues & Green, Green, Tan/Grey/White)
• 1 Seal Cub (White & Grey)
• 6 Gummy Bears (Baby-safe — no safety eyes)
• 5 Plush Fried Eggs (Great desk buddies or fidgets)

🕯 Candles & Wax Melts
• Orchid Scent Wax Melts
• Rose Scent Wax Melts

I have been busy with some Crochet Demands this last couple of weeks! Here are just some that I took photos of! Spider p...
02/26/2026

I have been busy with some Crochet Demands this last couple of weeks!

Here are just some that I took photos of!
Spider plushie, Cotton Washcloth, yellow stress ball keychain, small seal pup some gummy bears and a little coin purse!

01/17/2026

Many who follow us don’t know, but we have been keeping a secret on our public Page! We are expecting another son in April!

09/10/2025

Christian, Wife, Mother, Amarican, Animal lover, Health Enthusiast, Environmental Activist. I only take Pre-orders that I have available in my shop. I will not alter my preorders. I accept cashapp payment at any time between Saturday and Wednesday, I accept cash from 9am-1pm Saturday through Wednesd...

08/26/2025

1 Gallon of Kombucha
32 servings of a 4oz serving size.

* First Fermentation

1. Supplies
- Room temp of 69-75
- Cheese cloth or T shirt fabric with large rubber band
- 1 Scoby
- 2 cups of finished kombucha that isn’t flavored (starter tea)
- 2 1 Gallon Glass jars
- 2 Stick on Aquarium thermometer
- 4 Cups Fresh Spring or well water (DO NOT USE CITY WATER!) you can use Distilled but then it doesn’t have the minerals in it as well.
- 8 Cups of fresh Spring or well water (DO NOT USE CITY WATER!) you can use Distilled but then it doesn’t have the minerals in it as well.
- 3 Tbsp organic Black or Green Tea or about 10 bags of tea bags.
- 1 Cup Organic Cane Sugar

2. Instructions
- Put Aquarium strip on the 1 Gallon Glass Jar that will be brewing your Kombucha
- Put the other one on your Kombucha Hotel 1 Gallon Glass Jar.
- Make STRONG black or green tea (about 10 bags to 4 cups of water) make sure its organic/natural tea bags or loose leaf tea- steep for 10 minutes or until it cools to room temperature, you may add sugar in while tea is HOT)
- Add 1 Cup of sugar and mix it VERY WELL
- Add the Scoby and Starter tea to 1 of your 1 Gallon Glass Jars along with the 8 cups of water.
- Add your starter tea to that same 1 Gallon Glass Jar
- Add the room temperature sweet tea to your glass jar
- Stir
- Put the cloth on top of jar and rubber band it to it (this helps keep bugs and stuff out!)
- Place it in a room where the temperature stays at a regulated area of between 65-89 degrees (this is not too cold to where mold would form and not to hot to kill the good bacteria)
- Let sit for 5 days out of direct sunlight. (DO NOT MESS WITH OR MOVE YOUR TEA/SCOBY, YOU NEED TO LET A NEW SCOBY FORM)
NOTE: If you placed it in a cooler area or it’s winter time, you may not have a very big Scoby form or perhaps non at all!
- Day 5: Taste to see if you like it and if there is any carbonation. If you like it’s flavor then you can either drink it the way it is or you can flavor it and start a second fermentation. If you want it stronger you can let it keep fermenting and taste it daily until you like how it is.
NOTE: If you like the flavor way it is, and don’t want to add flavoring, add 1tsp of natural organic cane sugar per 16oz bottle and then stir it well, place the cap on VERY TIGHT or get one of those flip cap bottles. Fill the bottles 1 inch from the top. Place it in the fridge. (A Scoby may form in any bottle. If you don’t like it you can pull it out and place it in the Scoby hotel. YOU CANNOT place a flavored Scoby in a Hotel or make new Kombucha.

* Second Fermentation

1. Supplies
- 8 16oz glass bottles (I use the ones with the flip lid) Make sure they can take a good amount of internal pressure
- 1/3 Cup Natural fruit or juice etc of your choice per 16oz bottle (Higher sugar content in the fruit means the more it is carbonated and the faster it does it.)
- Large 1 Gallon Pitcher
- Funnel
- Absorbent Hand Town

2. Instruction
(DIFFERENT FLAVORING PER BOTTLE)
- Add Kombucha to Pitcher
- Prepare flavoring into either a pure or juice
- Measure up how much flavoring you need and add it to each 16oz bottle using the funnel.
- Using the funnel, pour Kombucha into the 16oz bottles until it reaches 1 inch from the top.
- Clean up around the caps with the cloth to ensure that it’s dry.
- Cap your bottles- if using a twist cap, (MAKE SURE IT’S TIGHT)
- Place them in a dark place with stable temperature for 3 days to increase carbonation. Then place it in the fridge.

(ALL THE SAME FLAVOR)
- Prepare Flavorings into either a pure or juice
- Measure up the flavoring to 19.95oz or 2 1/2 Cups
- Add Flavoring to pitcher
- Add Kombucha to Pitcher
- Using the funnel, pour the flavored Kombucha into the 16oz bottles until it reaches 1 inch from the top.
- Clean up around the caps with the cloth to ensure that it’s dry.
- Cap your bottles- if using a twist cap, (MAKE SURE IT’S TIGHT)
- Place them in a dark place with stable temperature for 3 days to increase carbonation. Then place it in the fridge.
NOTE: You may want to burp your bottles every 3 days if you are using bottles not meant for brewing fermented beverages and they are at ROOM-TEMP. Burping them is just opening the caps just a little and then closing them really fast. You will want to do this to COLD Kombucha over a sink or outside incase it gets messy. Room-Temp Kombucha will MAKE A MESS sometimes.

This Recipe is for sweeter, and NOT DRY- (acidic) �If you would like it more dry. Place them at room temp and burp them every two days until they reach the flavor you would like. Then place them in the fridge. ��They will last 8-12 months in the fridge, and you WILL WANT TO BURP EVERY 30 DAYS while keeping them long term in the fridge.
NOTE: The longer they sit, the more DRY they get.

How much Kombucha should you drink?
4oz every day. But you may consume up to 12oz a day safely. Otherwise you could risk getting ketoacidosis and need to go to the hospital.
Children older than a year old can safely drink 1-2 oz a day that has been watered down.

People who shouldn’t drink Kombucha are as followed:
Pregnant or nursing mothers.
Those who have Kidney disease or HIV.
Those who have compromised immune systems.
Those who have a dependency to alcohol
Those who have too much bacteria in the small intestine.
Children below 1 year of age.

Here are some things I have been crocheting recently!
07/17/2025

Here are some things I have been crocheting recently!

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