Crafts, Jewellery | 17. July 2008
During my time at high school I used to go to silver jewellery classes every week because I wanted to become a jeweller. I really enjoyed creating jewellery out of metal, wires, beads and everything else I could find. After finishing high school and choosing another career path I pretty much stoped doing anything like it.
A few months ago I realised how much I actually miss working with precious metal and I enrolled into two silver jewellery workshops with Barbara Ryman. The first one is a pendant and earring workshop, the second one will be a ring workshop.
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Food | 7. July 2008
Jamie Oliver has these really nice recipes in his cook books for making your own pasta. Even though I love cooking I never tried it so far. It looks like quite a bit of effort for not a lot of outcomes. But since the outcomes of my weekend tasks matters less then the fun I had a go at it and I made my own ravioli.
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Body Care | 2. July 2008
What is soap made of and how it is made? I’ve got no idea. When ever I need soap I walk into a supermarket and buy a bar.
With a bit of research on the internet I found quite a few people who wrote about their experience with making there own soap from scratch. I found some very detailed and simple instructions alongside some recipes. With all this knowledge on hand I decided to have a go at it myself.
To keep it simple I followed this recipe by Lisa Wood-Bradley.
450 grams olive oil
250 grams coconut oil
250 mls chilled water
90 grams caustic soda (sodium hydroxide/NaOH)
Optional:
20 mls of essential or skin safe fragrant oils
1/4 cup ground herbs or ground oatmeal
1 tablespoon of cosmetic clay
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