Passion

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I had an Alexander Technique lesson yesterday, and as I was driving up I was stricken with envy of my two friends I'm doing it with.  The teacher, of course, has her passion in teaching Alexander Technique.  My other friend has found her passion with a healing thing called Quantum Biofeedback.  And me?   Um....passionless, except for knitting.  And where does that get me in the world?  And why should I care if I'm not creating world peace with my knitting?   

  I've always liked the quote from Mahatma Gandhi - "Be the change you want to see in the world".   Maybe the challenge for myself is to really embrace that at my own microscopic little level of home and hearth.  Knit, with love, beautiful clothes for people to wear.  Make, with love, beautiful soap for people to use.  Garden, with love, so that my family has good food to eat in the summer and through the winter.   Don't sweat over not having a large passion.  Enjoy and embrace all the small passions that I pursue every day.

 

as long as that doesn't include having to wash the floor every day!!!

happy days everyone :)

Lisa

 

I think I'd better go wash the bathroom floor.....ick!

Christmas time

is ticking.

note to self, from self. 

Dear self:

STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!

Get away from the computer and in to the other room and wrap soap for tomorrow's Christmas Market at the Quesnel rec centre!  Don't forget to make more body butter!  And salves, especially now that the new stock of tins has come in.  Did I mention soap?  Yes, wrap more!

Okay, okay.  I know!  There's only so much time today, and so much to do if I want to get to bed before midnight. 

I did manage to get a new shipment of soap in to Cariboo Keepsakes.  And a new shelf display in to Green Tree soaps. 

Yes, I know.  It's very nice, but it's not helping you get ready for tomorrow's market.

Okay!  Away I go.

See you tomorrow at the market!

Lisa

'Tis the Season

A wee hint of summer - Blackberry Sage soap.  It looks delicious!

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Towers of Shampoo Bars - Tea Tree Mint, and Chamomile

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A 3 kg batch of body butter, waiting to be divided in to scents - French Lavender, Lemon Coconut, Orange.  Maybe a trial batch of Vanilla Spice body butter.  It would be brown from the Vanilla essential oil, but maybe that's okay?  Brenda at Rocky Peak is lobbying for it!

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The Christmas market preparation continues...I'll sleep next week!

Why I like making soap

Because you never know when something cool is going to happen.

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Even though I mixed the colours

with the intention that something cool would happen,

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this is still a beautiful surprise.

 

This is a lovely batch of Energy soap, getting ready for Christmas Farmer's Market #1 this coming Saturday, November 26!

I'll be busy at a piping workshop that weekend, which I organized before I knew it was also the farmer's market weekend.  If only I had known!!!  Luckily a good friend has offered to work my market table for me.  Look for Christine Kraayvanger at my soap table this weekend!  Thank you Christine!!!

A Time Warp

I am continually amazed at how fast a month can zing by.  You'd think I'd have figured that out by now, 12 years into child rearing.  12 years?  Really?  I can still vividly remember the joyful glow of being seriously nauseous for nine months, ha ha!  And now look at the size of those sweet little darlings...yes, look at how Number 12 yrs old has outgrown his mens size 9.5 shoes again!

I have finally changed around my blog page and website.  I have had a site on Big Cartel for a year and a half which I finally cancelled today.  I had hoped to create an opportunity for some online sales, but it didn't work out.  Instead, I'm switching the whole works over here to my Posterous blog site.  There is now a Products & Ordering page.  There are product descriptions.  Once my internet is hooked up again, I will be able to load some product photos too!   It's not too exciting, but it's another big leap for me out into cyberspace.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

As for time warps...has it really been two months since I did my lavender distilling?  I STILL haven't got those darn photos off my cell phone.  Maybe tomorrow...today is already done!  My husband was all keen to distill some lodgepole pine, after listening to a CBC radio presentation on the wonders of  pine essential oil.  It sounds like one of those Contributes to World Peace things - does everything for you, plus makes you happy!   (Hmmmm....did a quick google search but only came up stuff on Turpentine.  Definitely NOT what we're trying to make!  I'll try to find the CBC link to the radio program).  We've now got three wine bottles of pine hydrosol sitting on the counter, adding to the general clutter and mayhem, as I try to figure out what to do with the stuff.  Maybe I will bottle it and bring it to the Christmas Farmer's Markets at the Quesnel rec centre.

And time warps...yup, being tossed back in time to the days when my kids were wee and little and could completely turn my day upside down by being home sick.  Claire is home sick today, which means all my best laid plans to do pottery today have gang awry.  But thankfully she's a little older, and doesn't need quite so many cuddles when sick.  That means I could doodle on the laptop and tackle changing around web pages, a little job that I've procrastinated about for a few months but only got to thanks to an enforced day at home.  Thanks Claire!  A day well spent :)

And now...with the best intentions to post again very soon, preferably with lots of photos of lavender distillation... I'm off to work on halloween costumes.

 

talk to you soon,

Lisa

 

a wee mousie

ack!  there's a mouse in my soap room!

I'm supposed to be making soap tonight but instead I'll be putting on the face mask and cleaning up "mouse evidence" and setting up traps to remove the intruder.

From Robert Burns, To a Mouse:

Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie,

O what panic's in thy breastie!

Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

Wi' bickering brattle!

I was be laith to rin an' chase thee,

Wi' murd'ring pattle!

 

Of course, that doesn't make me feel any better about seeing a mouse in the basement!  I hope everyone has a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend.  I know I've a great deal to be thankful for!

See you at the farmer's market this Saturday.  It's the last market of the summer, so come on out and stock up on veggies and soap!

Lisa