Welcome to March 2022!

Welcome to March, the month of spring and flowers and showers and maybe some cherry blossoms? February 28 is the official anniversary of this blog as Point of Interest, which started its life in 2008 as a way to share handouts and tutorials with the youth in our Rated T for Teen crafting program (on … Read more

Welcome to February 2022!

How is it already February 2022? It feels like it was Christmas yesterday! I’m looking forward to a bit of snow this week – not too much, please, I’d still like to get out and about to get groceries and such in my tiny car with all-season tires – and Groundhog Day on the 2nd … Read more

Sigh, not again: Ethereal Galore has plagiarized our Learn Cosmetic Formulation course!

It’s come to our attention that a company called Ethereal Galore has plagiarized our free Learn Cosmetic Formulation course, created by Jane Barber of Making Skincare, Perry Romanowski of Chemists’ Corner, and me, Swift. As you can see in these screenshots, she’s taken our lessons, our formulas, our photos, and even the names of each module … Read more

Welcome to January 2022

Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2022 is much much better than the couple of years that preceded it, eh? We’re not making any big plans for this year, but I do have tickets to see Bruce Dickinson’s spoken word tour in March, so fingers crossed for that, eh? Both Dr Brian Cox and Dara O’Briain … Read more