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Susan Barclay-Nichols It’s a snow day! The schools, my husband’s university, and my work are all closed today thanks to the almost 30 cm or 12 inches of snow we’ve had fall in the last 11 hours. The roads are treacherous and it’s too dangerous to go out today. So SNOW DAY! (And tomorrow’s going to be...
The weather outside here is frightful, and I need something more than my toner to protect my skin right now. An oil filled moisturizer isn’t an option at the moment as I’m having some fun new break outs on my face, so I thought I’d try making my min-maxed toner into a gel using Amaze...
I’ve been having a lot of problems with my shoulder, as has my mom, my best friend, my best friend’s husband, and my aunt, so I thought I’d try using the pain relief blend of essential oils and oils I made up a while ago in a deodorant container. (What’s going on here? It’s not...
I know this can be a demanding hobby/craft/art/calling/obsession and I know it can be an expensive one sometimes, but making mistakes and “wasting” supplies is part of the process. I know this is a hard thing to accept – I can’t count how many times I’ve kept a product around thinking I’ll try to fix...
Welcome to Workshop Stadium. This week the Chairman, Raymond (my lovely husband), has chosen the third Iron Chemist ingredient – LSB (surfactant from Stepan). I’m grateful he chose this one; I accidentally bought two bottles of it, forgetting I had already purchased the first, so I have tons with which I can play! Here are...