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Welcome to December – the best month of the year! This month has so many of my favourite celebrations – my mum’s birthday (today), Sasja’s gotcha day (16th), my dating anniversary with Raymond (19th, 32 years), my birthday (21st), Christmas (25th), and New Year’s Eve (31st), which is also the day I was adopted, something … Read more
A very hearty hello to everyone who is playing along with this series! Unfortunately, part 42 will not be seen this week as I’ve reached a point where I’ve had to make loads of graphics, and it took up all the time I had allotted for the post. Then I realized I had something I … Read more
I’m working through all my ideas for this and the coming months, and I realized I hadn’t done anything from this series in almost ten years! Eeek! Click here to see the posts in that series. In that series we covered… Stearic acid Gels! Cucumber extract Sunflower oil (10 products) Incroquat BTMS-50 (10 products) …creating at … Read more
My current bout of spasming arms and fatigue have knocked us off track for this series, and I think we’ll be behind a month in the end. Sorry for this delay, but I’ve learned that if I don’t listen to my body and slow down when it tells me to, I’ll be suffering for it … Read more
Sorry for the delay, but I’m so happy to share this new e-book for October 2025 with you – Substituting cocoa butter: Anhydrous and emulsified formulas (issue 8)! Woo hoo! Don’t stop making awesome things because you can’t find cocoa butter at our suppliers’ shops – learn how to make substitutions with my new e-book! … Read more