Month: November 2013

Weekend Wonderings: Preserving difficult to preserve products. Adding beeswax to any lotion recipe.

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Is it really November 30th? It really is starting to smell and look at a lot like Christmas, eh? Michael’s smells like a Christmas cake bomb just went off in the middle of the store, and it gives me such a headache! (Which is saying a lot because I’m not scent sensitive and I love...

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(Early) Weekend Wonderings: Substitutions for mango butter,

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Happy Black Friday! And thanks for your lovely Thanksgiving wishes, but I’m Canadian, and our holiday is the second Monday of October. But I’ll always happily accept good wishes and blessings any time of the year! I’m not going near the shops today because I don’t really do crowds, so let’s spend some time looking...

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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat! Here are some present ideas…something that ends with “-at”

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As I gather information on what you want to know, I thought I’d post a few Christmas present ideas. Creating Christmas presents – bath bombsCreating Christmas presents – bath saltsCreating Christmas presents – whipped buttersLast minute project ideasProjects for those new to bath & body creationsSubstituting when crafting Christmas presents Christmas in Swift’s workshopTeen girl...

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What do you want to know?

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I’m getting ready to write a week of Newbie Tuesday posts to go with my whole “it’s Christmas, so here’s how you make things” and I wanted to incorporate some of the things you want to know into the series. One of the really fun things about teaching is learning from participants what they want...

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Weekend Wonderings: How should we heat our ingredients?

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Hi everyone! I’m off to teach my lotion making class at Voyageur this morning, so I only have a few minutes to look at your comments. There’ll be more tomorrow morning as I have the whole day off! I can’t believe it!  In this initial post on duplicating products, Sherry asks: Do you recommend any...

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