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My smellies have arrived!
Sep. 20th, 2012 12:14 pmMy supplies have arrived! so I'll be sniffing and sorting this evening and possibly figuring out what to make first.
Unfortunately I don't have extended free time to sit and play immediately - we're booked the next 3 weekends (revel, Collegium of the White Mountain, Battle of the Elms) so it may be a week or so before I get back to it in an evening, unless I give up other (time-sensitive) projects, which I'm reluctant to do.
From unpacking the delivery, though, I can tell that the benzoin gum makes up a much larger part in the smell of the 'white powder' dry shampoo (left by the splendid Ynes) than I realised. I'd never handled benzoin before so I hadn't known its smell at all. Fascinating stuff!
I'm now debating getting a dedicated mortar and pestle. Robert has a splendid one, used almost daily; I don't want to mix edibles and not-intended-as-edibles. Nothing I'm handling is toxic, but I don't know how well potentially sticky things will clean off. I can get another M&P from Brick Lane easily enough.
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isiswardrobe nominated me for an award! how cool is that? Maybe I can grow up to be a real blogger. :-)
In other news: Robert is teaching intro to pewter casting this weekend at the revel, and Mistress Oriane is bringing her gilding supplies to demonstrate her favourite scribal pastime. We should be awash in craftiness on Saturday.
On Sunday, I'm catching up with my cousin Sarah, who is passing through the city for a wedding. We're going to the last day of a display of the London city livery companies.
Then there's dinner out on Sunday - a whirlwind social life, that's me.
Unfortunately I don't have extended free time to sit and play immediately - we're booked the next 3 weekends (revel, Collegium of the White Mountain, Battle of the Elms) so it may be a week or so before I get back to it in an evening, unless I give up other (time-sensitive) projects, which I'm reluctant to do.
From unpacking the delivery, though, I can tell that the benzoin gum makes up a much larger part in the smell of the 'white powder' dry shampoo (left by the splendid Ynes) than I realised. I'd never handled benzoin before so I hadn't known its smell at all. Fascinating stuff!
I'm now debating getting a dedicated mortar and pestle. Robert has a splendid one, used almost daily; I don't want to mix edibles and not-intended-as-edibles. Nothing I'm handling is toxic, but I don't know how well potentially sticky things will clean off. I can get another M&P from Brick Lane easily enough.
isiswardrobe nominated me for an award! how cool is that? Maybe I can grow up to be a real blogger. :-)In other news: Robert is teaching intro to pewter casting this weekend at the revel, and Mistress Oriane is bringing her gilding supplies to demonstrate her favourite scribal pastime. We should be awash in craftiness on Saturday.
On Sunday, I'm catching up with my cousin Sarah, who is passing through the city for a wedding. We're going to the last day of a display of the London city livery companies.
Then there's dinner out on Sunday - a whirlwind social life, that's me.
