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Hey,
So I've been posting a lot about my Sweetie lately (okay, since August. But still).
I am now going to post a little about me (and, admittedly, vast ammounts of materialism. Just deal with that, if you will. ;-)
So. The original plan for yesterday (had there been no bus-strike) was to have Seanchaidh over for an evening of fun and chatter.
Sadly, bus-strike made that impossible (or at least impossible without the addition of vast and unneccessary (and potentially unavailable) ammounts of cab-fare).
So here's me thinking: Dammit! That's two social evenings ruined -- in a ROW, no less -- due to this damn city! :-P
So, imagine my delight when I get a call, around 1pm, from Miz Arndis, asking me to drop by her place (just a quick trudge-through-the-deep-snow away ;-) for an afternoon of chatter and tea.
I brought my Spiffy New Shoes to show off (and, er, practice walking in - although I was mostly sitting on a kitchen chair), and she gave me my birthday+xmas present!
Which is, in fact, the subject of this post. :-D
She and Tchang got me a box of massage-bar ingredients! :-D
So I have a big bag of Shea butter, and big bag of (delicious-smelling!) Cocoa butter, and a big bottle of "Wild Heart" essential-oil blend (anise, cinamon, cloves, and some other stuff -- it's definitely essential oil: I put some on as a perfume and it did, indeed, leave a little (painless) chemical burn on the very surface of my skin. Definitely something to be diluted with other oils.
Anyway. What this means is that I can make Bath Stuff for my family's DIY xmas presents this year -- I was already planning on doing Body Scrub Mix (sort of like those layered jars of cookie-ingedients that come with a note saying "add the following Wet Stuff, mix and bake"?), but I wasn't sure what to do for the guys.
So I think the two of them (and possibly my sister) will be getting Wild Heart scented massage bars/butters made from the above plus some coconut oil and a little bit of something liquid (like maybe a teaspoon of soybean oil or something).
To that end, today will be spent (after dishes) doing kitchen experiments involving scrubs and butters (and making macadamia-nut chocolates, too, I think).
EDIT: Dishes are done. First experimental massage bar (possibly to be tested on CSI_Tokyo this evening) is cooling in my fridge. Which I hope is the right way to do it. ;-) (E.G.: I'm hoping the stuff doesn't separate on me -- though, if it does, it will be easier to re-melt into its component parts. ;-)
I need to give my cookie-sheet a good scrub, and then I'll make (more) pumpkin-seed candy and a batch of macadamia-nut as well. :-)
Body-scrub mix first, though, I think. :-)
/EDIT
Must badger temp agencies again. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
So I've been posting a lot about my Sweetie lately (okay, since August. But still).
I am now going to post a little about me (and, admittedly, vast ammounts of materialism. Just deal with that, if you will. ;-)
So. The original plan for yesterday (had there been no bus-strike) was to have Seanchaidh over for an evening of fun and chatter.
Sadly, bus-strike made that impossible (or at least impossible without the addition of vast and unneccessary (and potentially unavailable) ammounts of cab-fare).
So here's me thinking: Dammit! That's two social evenings ruined -- in a ROW, no less -- due to this damn city! :-P
So, imagine my delight when I get a call, around 1pm, from Miz Arndis, asking me to drop by her place (just a quick trudge-through-the-deep-snow away ;-) for an afternoon of chatter and tea.
I brought my Spiffy New Shoes to show off (and, er, practice walking in - although I was mostly sitting on a kitchen chair), and she gave me my birthday+xmas present!
Which is, in fact, the subject of this post. :-D
She and Tchang got me a box of massage-bar ingredients! :-D
So I have a big bag of Shea butter, and big bag of (delicious-smelling!) Cocoa butter, and a big bottle of "Wild Heart" essential-oil blend (anise, cinamon, cloves, and some other stuff -- it's definitely essential oil: I put some on as a perfume and it did, indeed, leave a little (painless) chemical burn on the very surface of my skin. Definitely something to be diluted with other oils.
Anyway. What this means is that I can make Bath Stuff for my family's DIY xmas presents this year -- I was already planning on doing Body Scrub Mix (sort of like those layered jars of cookie-ingedients that come with a note saying "add the following Wet Stuff, mix and bake"?), but I wasn't sure what to do for the guys.
So I think the two of them (and possibly my sister) will be getting Wild Heart scented massage bars/butters made from the above plus some coconut oil and a little bit of something liquid (like maybe a teaspoon of soybean oil or something).
To that end, today will be spent (after dishes) doing kitchen experiments involving scrubs and butters (and making macadamia-nut chocolates, too, I think).
EDIT: Dishes are done. First experimental massage bar (possibly to be tested on CSI_Tokyo this evening) is cooling in my fridge. Which I hope is the right way to do it. ;-) (E.G.: I'm hoping the stuff doesn't separate on me -- though, if it does, it will be easier to re-melt into its component parts. ;-)
I need to give my cookie-sheet a good scrub, and then I'll make (more) pumpkin-seed candy and a batch of macadamia-nut as well. :-)
Body-scrub mix first, though, I think. :-)
/EDIT
Must badger temp agencies again. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
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