10.31.2007
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I possibly haven’t mentioned it, but I’m a member of the Etsy Trashion Team. This is a collective of artists who reuse and repurpose materials ordinarily discarded as art, or even as further functional objects. For those of you cringing and worrying about how this works in perfumery – shhh. It’s OK. I don’t do anything scary or unsanitary. Right now I’m interpreting it as finding ways to use materials I’d ordinarily get rid of, like items sold as “natural” that were actually synthetics. [...]
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10.17.2007
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I shop at the Farmer’s Market when I can manage it (OK, once, in a downpour, and since parking is horrible, not since) and at my coop (regularly, since it’s literally a walk across the street). I do buy local whenever I can; if given a choice between blueberries from Indiana or Michigan, I choose [...]
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10.12.2007
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Craft Magazine has this link up to a survey for a designer who wants to help us make our crafting space something other than chaos space. Stop by and help her out – you’ll be helping yourself! Share on Facebook
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10.11.2007
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The Independent argues the ineffectiveness of herbal treatment. I’ve learned that I have to take British journalism like I do US-based journalism, on a case-by-case basis. Still, despite the severely slanted nature of nearly all Western press, I really think that British ”objective” journalism is much more prone to smug pandering and deliberately bad information, whereas US journalism bad reporting is the result of either sloppiness or lack of time for fact checking. (Brits do it out of mean spiritedness, while the US does it out of ignorance. Equally bad, [...]
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10.05.2007
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I’m seeing less of it these days, but I’m still seeing it: “We give you these perfume oils pure! Undiluted!” Countless Ebay sellers have used this exact phrasing, enticing consumers over to their particular brand of commercial fragrance imitations. These claims of undiluted oils are either false, or for reasons to be discussed, meaningless, so move on to another
seller when listings are earmarked by such hawking.
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