hello to the wonderful seoul soapmakers!
hi everybody! i didn’t forget about you! the link i promised you for the place to buy oxides and ultramarines is here. the mineral colours i used during the workshops: chromium oxide titanium dioxide hydrated chromium oxide yellow oxide A31 (sorry, i misnamed this) red oxide (blue shade) (and misnamed this one as well) blue [...]
seoul-mates
i reckon i could live here. it’s immaculately clean everywhere….no litter at all. people drive considerately. there is no honking and swerving and changing lanes. the streets downtown are wide spacious boulevards. there is minimal pollution in the air……the sky was bright blue, even if it was sub-zero temps most of the day. everyone is [...]
korea soapmaking preview
i have been busy making samples of all the soaps i will be demonstrating at the workshops in seoul and daegu next week. there are pictures here, with descriptions. for example:
chocolates and roses
shipped today: a valentine’s day limited edition soap, with vanilla, tablelands honey, patchouli eo and a little kiss of rose absolute. … available exclusively at the perfect potion.
korea: soapmaking workshops
i have been invited to korea to teach a couple of advanced soapmaking workshops at a big aromatherapy college up there. these are all aromatherapy students who have already completed a basic soapmaking workshop. i’m not sure how many will be attending…but i’m guessing LOTS. i’ve been working on my workshop plan and i’ll be [...]
rainforest stage 2
this time last year, 350 little trees went into the top half of our retired dairy pasture land. today…another 350 were planted in the shade of the stage 2 trees! big thanks to mum, maurice, peter, trixie and elizabeth who did all the actual planting, while i wrote up my workshop plan for korea (but [...]
fish pond
my little fish pond is settling in quite well. it’s just a concrete bowl with the spiky looking plant in it, plus some miniature waterlilies that i thought had all died some months ago. we moved the pond so it got a bit more shade, and they all came slowly back. i’ve got just the [...]
getting rid of stuff
decluttering is the big thing lately. there are a million blogs and books about it…and in general, i’m all for it. less stuff seems like a good mantra to me. i satisfactorily cleared out several somewhat clogged departments in 09 (kitchen, office, wardrobe, bathroom, selected parts of the workshop) and i am always peering around [...]
arancini
arancini is italian for “little oranges”. i made them to take to our italian friends’ place to see in the new year. they are delicious little crumbed fried balls of rice/cheese/peas/saffron/herbs….well that is what i put in mine, anyway. i’ve made millions of these tasty little brutes in my previous life as a cocktail party [...]
