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Raymond Nichols I thought I’d post a few pictures of the things we crafted or made for the wedding…The nice thing about crafting is that everything can really be about what you truly want. We made a ton of things – our jewellery, our mineral make-up, our body and bath products in wedding cake scent! – and...
We drove 7800 km, visited 11 states (Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota), 3 provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – B.C doesn’t count as I live here!), and had a wonderful time. We visited Mount Rushmore, Wall Drug, the Spam Museum, the Corn Palace, the largest mall in...
Love your feet! It’s sandal season and you know your feet are going to take a beating. So let’s modify our solid scrub bar to give our feets a treat (yeah, poor English, but it rhymes!) So how is this going to be different than Friday’s scrub bar? For your feet you’ll want something heavier,...
Solid scrub bars are a fantastic way to get the exfoliating and moisturizing action of a sugar scrub in the portability of a bar (as Homer notes, the only way to get the awesome power of food is in a bar format, only ours won’t contain Chinese newspapers). Solid scrub bars are really modifications of...
Greetings from Billings, Montana! It is day four of our great honeymoon road trip, and I’ve found a way to enjoy chemistry on the road. We visited the Merry Widow Health Mine yesterday in Basin, Montana. It was…interesting. When we first pulled into town, it felt a little creepy. We drove through the town and...