These just got unmolded tonight. They’re my first round of breast cancer soaps! Colored with french pink clay and red morrocan clay, these soaps are great for your skin (excellent facial soaps for oily skin!) and smell delicious. These are my breast cancer soaps. All proceeds from breast cancer soaps now and in the [...]
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Reminder: Hug-A-Bull Fundraiser on Sunday
May 11th, 2010
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Don’t forget to come visit me (and much more!) on Sunday, May 16th at the HugABull Flea Market Fundraiser at Dizine Canine Training Centre in East Vancouver! I will have space invader soaps. And brain soaps. And pirate soaps. And proper non-silly soaps, too! And if I manage to get a free hour between now [...]
Buy some soap and support a Pit Bull!
April 28th, 2010
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I love pit bulls. I think they’re adorable. Actually, that’s not entirely true, I actually think they’re so ugly that they’ve transcended uggo and moved right back into “holy crap, you’re cute!” And really, no dog can smile half as well as a happy pittie. It’s one of the few breeds I would never own. [...]
Duplicate It Yourself
April 15th, 2010
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I read this post a few weeks ago, and it hit a nerve, probably because I used to be guilty of it myself: I’d walk around a craft fair, and think “Pah, I’m not paying for that, I could do that myself.” And now that I do my own vending, and spend a lot more [...]
On Embroidery
February 24th, 2010
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So Nick & I are learning a new craft: Embroidery. I’m up for just about any new craft (especially one that doesn’t have a huge cash investment required) and Nick wants to learn to add nifty borders to his fighting tunics. As of yet, I kind of suck, but Nick’s attempts have been pretty decent. [...]
Reader Challenge: Answered
February 22nd, 2010
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So, one of the soap blogs I read (The Sage) recently had a reader challenge to create a milk soap and write a blog post about it. I don’t have the picture yet (I’ll probably wait til Wednesday to unwrap & slice it) but I can write up the rest of my entry now. Precursor: [...]
Put to a better use
February 14th, 2010
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Nick’s been away most of the week, and I put all my free time to good use: My new Kindle-hider, specifically for SCA events so that I’m not the dick with the eBook ruining the illusion. Mmm, crafty!
Self deprecating humor
February 4th, 2010
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I tend to be fairly self deprecating. I don’t actually mean any of it, and my self esteem is fine, but it’s definitely a holdover from when I had the self esteem of a particularly ugly rock. I gained a defense mechanism which was to put myself down first, and do a much better job [...]
Lists are good
February 2nd, 2010
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I have seven million craft projects on the go. I’m starting to lose track of them, and suddenly go “Oh shit! I want to do X too!” so I thought I’d make a list so that I could refer to it when I need to shop. Felting Soaps – My ginger & white tea soaps [...]
The little known Lesser Red Velvet Marmot
January 28th, 2010
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There are a lot of different types of marmots. The yellow bellied marmot, the hoary marmot, the long tailed marmot, the severely endangered Vancouver Island Marmot, and everybody’s favorite Johnny Marmot. But little is known about this elusive rodent, the lesser red velvet marmot. What is known is that it was originally in Hastings-Sunrise, but [...]