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It’s Christmas morning here at the Barclay Nichols’s household, and I’ve been absolutely spoiled by Raymond and my friends! Sasja is wearing her new Christmas dress, and we’re eating apple turnovers while watching the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Christmas marathon. Liked couldn’t be better. We hope you’re having a wonderful day full of happiness, joy, … Read more
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