Administration notes – Point of Interest

Point of Interest

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Let’s make some oily gels in a Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 23, 2025!

January 25, 2025 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

Two jars on a black table. One has a yellow coloured gel in it. The other has a green-brown gel in it. These illustrate two oily gels that can be made with oily gellants

I’ve really missed our Zoom workshops, so let’s get them started again! Let’s make some oily gels in a Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 11 am PST (Vancouver time). We’ll be making oily gels and gel-to-cream products using Sucragel, Sapogel, and sodium surfactin. It will run about two hours. We’ll meet the...

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Administrative stuff: Why do we charge in US dollars, even though we’re Canadian?

January 24, 2025 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

A maple leaf Christmas decoration standing in a town square in Chilliwack, BC.

This answer is simple – because it’s the only choice we had when we started on Patreon, and it’s been the easiest thing to maintain. Everything is designed for American currency – software, plug ins, programs, payment processors – so to not charge in it is a lot of work. We charge in Canadian for...

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