Welcome to October! The first true month of autumn here in Canada and the birthday month of my beloved Raymond as well as our little pup Sasja! This month will be filled with cake and far too much Hallowe’en themed chocolate for the humans in our household.
The never-ending 50,000 km tune-up on this old body of mine continues this month with a visit to get an epidural for two herniated discs today (October 1st) with even more stuff of this nature to come mid-month. This bit’s almost over, thank goodness, and I’m this much closer to getting a finalized pair of bifocal contacts so I can read and see over long distances at the same time! Wow! (Seriously, I went to the optometrist in July and it’s taking this long? Supply chain issues are a pain in the bum!) My arms are getting better – anaesthetics for the win – so I’m able to type more, which is always a joyous thing.
And here’s to hoping our hottest September on record is over and we’re in for some autumnal weather with a titch of rain here and there! Cooler weather = more BIKES! This month, we hope to make some into Vancouver to bike the circumference of Richmond and Pitt Meadows/Maple Ridge, if all goes well.
Find awesome biking trips at Let’s Go Biking, my favourite blog and book. Click the link to find all kinds of routes for British Columbia as well as her three awesome books. Not an ad or affiliate link – we’ve just found so many fun biking trips from this resource!
What’s happening here on the site for October?
Honestly, I don’t know yet. I have these series I’m writing that are getting closer to completion, but they aren’t ready yet as I need more diagrams.
I’m almost done my second pass on one of them, and the other one has entered editing mode, which is a great start, but still miles to go before they’re ready for prime time. There’s so much that goes into a massive series, and I’m constantly going back and forth to different sections when I realize I need to define X at the beginning to be able to explain Y and Z in sections 5 and 11. It’s great fun, but it is a lengthy process to make sure I cover everything that needs to be covered so you can learn as much as possible about a topic, like fatty acids and triglycerides or liquid crystal emulsions.
I’m excited about a short series I’ve written about a terrible recipe for pumpkin spice body butter I found in the wild that’ll lead into a short series on why shea butter and coconut oil don’t play well together that goes into more about fatty acids and triglycerides, bringing me one step closer to the massive series on that topic.
And I still have that series on light lotions and milks I had hoped to share in the summer that’ll now be an autumnal thing.
As well I have all of your questions from the monthly Q&A that I have to get to in this first or second week of the month as well as I’ve fallen behind. Sorry about that.
Things have been really chaotic around here lately – the organizational weeks didn’t turn out as planned – and a lot of things were started and not finished.
Oh, and I found a bunch of duplications I’ve started and didn’t finish, so that’s on my to-do list now.
Thank goodness my arms are feeling better and I think I can type more, eh?
As we do every month on the blog…
If you’re in need of supplies, $10 subscribers to the month have five discount coupons this month for Formulator Sample Shop, Lotioncrafter, Voyageur Soap & Candle, and Windy Point Soap Making Supplies. Thank you for this lovely gift out of the goodness of your hearts, lovely suppliers!
I’m out for a medical thing in the city on Saturday, October 1, so the coupons will be updated after that. If they aren’t updated when you check, please be patient as I’m having a really hard day. Please do not write to me asking for the coupons. They’ll be there when they’re there.
If you’re a $3 subscriber or higher, click here to see the duplication request post!
Please note that requests for duplication are only considered if they’re posted in the duplication section as this is part of the $3 and up subscribers benefits and not if they’re emailed, direct messaged, or suggested in comments on social media. I cannot possibly re-create every single formula suggested as this blog would be nothing but duplicated products — and how boring would that be? – so I can only choose a few a year to create. I go into detail about my process for choosing formulas in both the duplication request post and in this post. Thank you for continuing to share them in that post. I have been getting loads of ideas from it the last few months, and there will be more to come soon, I hope.
And don’t forget that you have access to the formula directory! The formula directory is constantly being updated to include even more formulas from around the blog, so if you’re looking for a formula, you’ll find it in the formula directory!
Also check out the latest addition to the monthly posts – Ingredient substitution ideas post ($3 and up)! Because it’s getting harder to find supplies thanks to shortages and shipping issues, if you have an ingredient you’re trying to find or need help substituting for in a formula, please share your thoughts over there!
If you’re a $5 subscriber or higher, click here to see the month’s Q&A post! I check this post every day, and it’s my priority to answer your questions or help with your formulas – it’s the best way to get in touch with me and guarantee an answer!
And don’t forget about the monthly Super happy fun member-to-member post for October 2022!, which is available to all levels of subscriptions. It’s more important than ever that we connect with other people during this ongoing pandemic, so please feel free to share your thoughts on this post or others on the blog!
You can always find the links to these monthly posts in the pinned post section, which is found to the right of just about every page on the blog on desktop and most mobile, or the bottom of every page for the odd mobile device. Or do a search for “Q&A” or “duplication” to find them. I’m afraid I don’t have time to do searches for you if you write to me as I’m swamped and my arms and hands are still in minor spasm, so doing one of those two things will find you those posts very quickly.
If you’re a $10 subscriber or higher, you’ll get the e-book for the month – which is generally issued on the 27th or later. I’m never sure what the topic will be until I start reviewing outlines, notes, formulas and everything else, but there are – as always – a few different ones on the go. Watch for the post towards the end of October 2022 for the e-book for the month.
In September 2022, we issued The only lotion formula you’ll ever need! e-book all about bath time fun that’s for sale for $18 Canadian in the shop – which you would have received as part of your $10 subscription!
Not bad, eh? You get all the benefits of the site PLUS an e-book that sells for $18 for only $10?!?
If you want to buy the e-book, check out it in the shop!
If you were a $10 subscriber for September 2022, there’s a discount code so you can download it for free. This coupon is only for people who were subscribed at the $10 level during the month of September 2022. If you weren’t a subscriber that month, it will tell you that the “coupon isn’t for you” or something like that. This means you aren’t eligible for the coupon, probably because you weren’t subscribed during that month.
I can’t stress enough that to be eligible for a coupon for a specific monthly e-book, you need to have been a $10 subscriber for that specific month. To be able to use the coupon for the September 2022 e-book, you must have been a $10 subscriber for the month of September 2022. To be able to use the coupon for April 2022, you must have been a $10 subscriber for the month of April 2022. And so on. We don’t offer all 80+ e-books I’ve written over the last 12 years for a monthly subscription – you get the e-book for the month in which you’ve subscribed.
Click this link to see the coupon codes for all the e-books we’ve issued to subscribers.
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Thanks so much for joining us here on the site for the month of October. What scents are you exciting about for the spooky season or the autumnal season? What products are you planning to make? What’s October all about for you?