a soap photo by certified su
i met certified su on flickr, while i was admiring her dramatic images of our local scenery.she came to yungaburra market last saturday and came in and introduced herself and bought some soap. i went to her flickr site this morning, to show her work to my husband, because he met her too.and there on [...]
eating locally
my husband has been obsessed with fish farms for years.they’ve always seemed a bit unnatural to me.here we are MILES from the sea…and yet, you can catch a fresh barramundi…..bizarre.i’ve always subtly vetoed the fish farm dinner….but every time we drive past one, he makes a comment or he just stares wistfully out the window, [...]
a panda in a copper pan
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } L1010179, originally uploaded by pattiflynn. my husband called me this morning to see our funny agapanthus….she had just climbed into this copper pan and was trying it out as a spot to clean and [...]
eos for grief
aromatherapy is a large part of my life….i like to almost constantly surround myself with the beautiful energies of various plant oils.sometimes i choose oils simply because they smell good to me on that particular day…and sometimes i am a bit more structured in my approach and select time-honoured blends for specific situations.there is almost [...]
a panda in a copper pan
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } L1010179, originally uploaded by pattiflynn. my husband called me this morning to see our funny agapanthus….she had just climbed into this copper pan and was trying it out as a spot to clean and [...]
eos for grief
aromatherapy is a large part of my life….i like to almost constantly surround myself with the beautiful energies of various plant oils.sometimes i choose oils simply because they smell good to me on that particular day…and sometimes i am a bit more structured in my approach and select time-honoured blends for specific situations.there is almost [...]
r.i.p. telemachus: best cat ever
we have had a truly dreadful few days here.our beautiful big cat telemachus was accidentally killed last sunday.we are all very sad and shocked. he came to us as a ten week old kitten on christmas eve 1996 and immediately began to win friends around our apartment complex, with his charm and open friendliness.he grew [...]
r.i.p. telemachus: best cat ever
we have had a truly dreadful few days here.our beautiful big cat telemachus was accidentally killed last sunday.we are all very sad and shocked. he came to us as a ten week old kitten on christmas eve 1996 and immediately began to win friends around our apartment complex, with his charm and open friendliness.he grew [...]
salade nicoise
on saturday i had a hellacious tummy bug, which left me weak and fragile and drained.the last one i had was in 1999, so i shouldn’t complain too much. on sunday, i was feeling hungry but delicate.along with the lemon surplus, everyone is having a fabulous season of mandarins, so i was given freshly squeezed [...]
salade nicoise
on saturday i had a hellacious tummy bug, which left me weak and fragile and drained.the last one i had was in 1999, so i shouldn’t complain too much. on sunday, i was feeling hungry but delicate.along with the lemon surplus, everyone is having a fabulous season of mandarins, so i was given freshly squeezed [...]
calico shopping bags
all the cool kids are doing it:
calico shopping bags
all the cool kids are doing it:
soap, again
hand rolled soap balls: display boxes: my soap at the yungaburra market last month:
soap, again
hand rolled soap balls: display boxes: my soap at the yungaburra market last month:
a surplus, no, an embarrassment of lemons
most of the year, i am scrounging for lemons.we use lemon juice constantly.i won’t touch the bottled stuff….if it isn’t freshly squeezed, then i am not interested.i can always detect a peculiar flavour….our own tree lived in a terracotta pot for years, then got transferred into the ground when we moved here.it has always struggled [...]
a surplus, no, an embarrassment of lemons
most of the year, i am scrounging for lemons.we use lemon juice constantly.i won’t touch the bottled stuff….if it isn’t freshly squeezed, then i am not interested.i can always detect a peculiar flavour….our own tree lived in a terracotta pot for years, then got transferred into the ground when we moved here.it has always struggled [...]
ilove itunes
ilove how ican randomly think of a song or an artist at any time of the day or night and look it/them up on itunes and THERE THEY ARE.along with most of their back catalogue. heintje? sure.the coshercot honeys? no problem.mac the knife? which version would you like, we have twenty. apart from the uncontrolled [...]
soaping marathon
we are skipping the market tomorrow.it’s 11pm and we’ve just soaped up a record 22 batches! blood orange + patchoulidewi sri X 2calendula + lavenderlimerance x 2inflorescence x 1bali kopi x 1floralia X 2lavender + mintgreen tea + silksweet babyvanilla beanfrazil X 2 plus some custom batches for the coffee works….we are doing a groovy [...]
ilove itunes
ilove how ican randomly think of a song or an artist at any time of the day or night and look it/them up on itunes and THERE THEY ARE.along with most of their back catalogue. heintje? sure.the coshercot honeys? no problem.mac the knife? which version would you like, we have twenty. apart from the uncontrolled [...]
soaping marathon
we are skipping the market tomorrow.it’s 11pm and we’ve just soaped up a record 22 batches! blood orange + patchoulidewi sri X 2calendula + lavenderlimerance x 2inflorescence x 1bali kopi x 1floralia X 2lavender + mintgreen tea + silksweet babyvanilla beanfrazil X 2 plus some custom batches for the coffee works….we are doing a groovy [...]
new website
our new website has finally gone live!after four years with a classic flash look, we’ve updated to something fresh and new. i wanted something stark and graphic and black and white. HUGE thanks to helen at azen graphics for her amazing flash work…..she’s just wonderful to work with. so go on….have a peek at the [...]
bannik
tomorrow morning, very early, i am seeing my husband off to the markets on his own….i am staying home to work on some soap by myself. we have some urgent orders that need to be underway before the weekend and i am also working on a new look for a new soap.the new bannik bar [...]
new website
our new website has finally gone live!after four years with a classic flash look, we’ve updated to something fresh and new. i wanted something stark and graphic and black and white. HUGE thanks to helen at azen graphics for her amazing flash work…..she’s just wonderful to work with. so go on….have a peek at the [...]
bannik
tomorrow morning, very early, i am seeing my husband off to the markets on his own….i am staying home to work on some soap by myself. we have some urgent orders that need to be underway before the weekend and i am also working on a new look for a new soap.the new bannik bar [...]
gmail, coloured labels
at long last!gmail are now enabling us to select colours to go with our mail labels.finally, i can have all those soap orders marked with BRIGHT RED ATTENTION GRABBING labels!and the etsy/amazon/ebay/itunes purchases can be labelled with a soothing green colour. my inbox is even easier to sort through and it looks like a big [...]
keep looking »