Lather and Lathe

10/25/2025

Can we get a whoop whoop!

Congrats sweetie 😘

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQNWobzkv4a/?igsh=MTBmcGhueGV3dHQwcg==

10/24/2025

Wowza, look what Robin made this month ❤️🔥❤️🔥

08/30/2025

A big congrats to Robin for her 2nd place finish in the August Soap Challenge - Winners category!

They look good enough to eat!

06/22/2025

Wow, look what Robin did this month!

05/01/2025

Come see us next weekend up in Prescott for Mother's Day.

Pssst: Spoil your mom and yourself!

🎨🍷 Save the Date! 🍷🎨

Join us for the Mother’s Day Fine Art and Wine Festival, hosted by the Mountain Artists Guild!
📍 Courthouse Plaza, Downtown Prescott
📅 Saturday, May 10th, 2025 | 9 AM – 5 PM
📅 Sunday, May 11th, 2025 | 9 AM – 4 PM

This beloved outdoor event brings together a juried exhibition of outstanding fine artists, a variety of vendors, and of course, great wine! Set in the heart of historic Downtown Prescott, the festival is a must-visit for locals, Phoenix travelers, Grand Canyon tourists, and art lovers from across the Southwest.

Hosted by The Mountain Artists Guild, a nonprofit organization proudly promoting the visual arts in Prescott since 1953. We recently celebrated 75 years of supporting the arts community!

https://mountainartistsguild.org/

Come celebrate art, wine, and Mother's Day with us! 🎉

04/22/2025

Check out Robin's Robin R Grieco April entry for her soap challenge club.
*I swear she has magic wands in her soap room!

April Soap Challenge Time!
"Under The Sea" is my entry into the Winner's Category.
This month we were to create a beach themed soap using any technique as long as we used cold process for a majority of the design.
My inspiration was an under water scene with a view of an island with a white sandy beach.
The bottom layer is cold process with soap dough coral reef. The translucent layer is clear melt and pour, and the top ocean, beach and island is cold process and is lightly scented with Beachside Mimosa from and my micas are from

I honestly NEVER work with melt and pour ... so I really was working outside my comfort zone. I learned so many lessons on what not to do if I ever try this again..... lol Note to self.... Get ULTRA Clear melt and pour!

Thank you for another month of learning Amy Warden and thank you for being our sponsor this month
Thanks for all of the love and encouragement J.D. Grieco - Artist

03/30/2025

A huge shoutout to Robin for winning the Grand Prize Advanced Category for March 2025!
WOOP WOOP 🎉🎉🎉

Just look at all that detail

"Azure Serenade"
This is a first for me!!!!
My entry for the March Soap Challenge Club - Brush Embroidery Technique was selected as the GRAND PRIZE WINNER in the Advanced Category! I am still surprised as there were soooo many beautiful entries.

We were challenged to create CP soap and decorate it using a cake/cookie decorating brush embroidery technique. I was inspired by the two-color brush embroidery technique in our tutorial, watched all of the videos about one hundred times, and practiced quite a bit!

For placement I traced an outline for the birds taking liberties with the formation of the feathers. The flowers were done free-hand.

I used small reusable "henna" cones to form tiny dots of wet soap and then created the texture using the flat side and the side of a very small nail brush to pull the wet colored soap through the middle to form feathers and petals.

Thank you everyone! I could not have done this a few years ago. I have learned so much in the Soap Challenge Club.

Thank you Amy Warden for teaching us this technique. Thanks to the Bubble Support Team for fielding all of our questions....You're the best!
Thanks to for supporting the Soap Challenge Club and for being this month's sponsor.
Special thanks to my husband Jim .d.grieco_artist xo! He is always so supportive, and always encourages me to persevere. See... I did come out of the soap room... eventually....lol

03/20/2025

Jim here, I have some sad news: Robin and I are splitting up

our FB pages 🤣

Robin will continue on Lather and Lathe and we will also post any dates for festivals and shows as Lather and Lathe.
However, I have created a page dedicated to my wood art.
Please show me some love and support by following me
https://www.facebook.com/J.D.GriecoWoodartist/

I am also on Instagram and a follow there will also be appreciated
https://www.instagram.com/j.d.grieco_woodart/

Thanks again for your support!!!! ❤

Turning various woods into 3-D art
commission work accepted

03/14/2025

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHMetblSdQZ/?igsh=MWp6bW5zbmE1ZW5vaw==

02/01/2025

Just done in time for this weekend and the Kierland Fine Art and Wine Show at with !

Ash segmented vessel with pyro and coloring.
Stop by and check it out, we think you'll like it.
*This is an art show so we will only be bringing our wood art.

150 artists - 16 wineries - live music

The weather forecast is just beautiful!
Sat & Sun 10-5

Hope to see you