This is a post within a post so hang in there, okay? It’s going to look a bit like Shameless Self-Promotion but actually it’s not – not really. It’s more about ‘edutainment’. Awhile back Patty and I were discussing how cool it would be to provide ‘curated educational sample packs’ on her and Lisa’s new [...]
Many people feel a compulsion to slow down and look as they drive by a car accident or fire. I do something similar with fragrance. I am addicted to indoles. Wow… I feel better now. I have a strange relationship with musky and indolic scents. I actually like the smell of skunk (have half of [...]
Whew! 2011 is nearly over and I still don’t have my Escape limo and I have NO idea where Woody Harrelson is right now. Better hustle!!! But – we still have a few days so let’s take a look back at the best/worst/most intriguing of 2011. Most of this will be perfume, as it is [...]
First apologies, it’s been one of those days. Cooking this afternoon, then rushing to glass fusing class, and that left not a lot of time for writing. Glass fusing, I’m making tiles for my remodeled bathroom. Well, I just didn’t really love anything out there, so decided to make my own tiles. I got the [...]
The name translates loosely as “angry carnation”. I suppose one could look at it that way, in the way that one could indeed refer to a chihuahua as “barking fiercely”. I’s a matter of perspective. If you’re a small rodent it might be terrifying; to a doberman it must seem like comic over-reaching. Coming from [...]