When No One Shows Up

ahh, the Free Lecture Demo.

The flu season, exam season. What ever the reason; people just don't show-up. That's o.k.

It means the house has been cleaned once again from head-to-toe. It means that we have time to get something else done.

Last night none of the people scheduled for my 4 pm workshop arrived. So it was off to the kitchen to make moisturizer. I checked in the cupboards to determine exactly what I had available:

Vitamin E oil

Shea Butter (zero packaging)

Cocoa Butter (zero packaging)

Bees Wax

My Choice Essential Oils

I poured the Vitamin E oil and my favorite seasonally chosen essential oils into the mason jar. I heated the butters and wax on low in a heavy bottomed pot. Every once and a while a twirled the pot a little to keep things moving. But I wanted to really get the oils hot and the wax melted. It makes for a smoother lotion in the end.

Once it was good and hot and the wax was well melted in I removed it from the heat. I allowed the oils to cool slightly before adding them to the Vitamin E and especially the volatile essential oils.

Once I added everything I returned to the jar every once in a while to stir. My hands always receiving the warm last drops of oil off the stir-stick.

Reducing packaging

I walk into my bathroom and see the small jar of face wash, and the big jar of moisturizer, and the little jar of deodorizer lotion. I made them. I reuse the packaging every time.

Of course, I still buy things in packaging so that I can make these products. And of course, there are more benefits to using body products that I made, versus body products made in a factory setting.

I'm also happy to say that the shea butter in my moisturizer is very low packaging at the point of purchase. I get it from Essence of Life in Kensington Market.

http://www.torontolife.com/guide/food/health-food/essence-of-life-organics/

It comes in a coconut shell, all wrapped in wax paper. Just the way I always dreamed it would happen.

We Have The Space!

Things are gone now - traded or sold or given away to the Goodwill downtown. They were sure happy to get a few of our better quality items. We're grateful that they are creating jobs for people. teaching people skills, and selling items at reasonable prices. I have to think that I rented a lot if my kitchen items from them while I was living in Toronto. Serving dishes and the like.

Thanks for checking things out here.

these are the items I still want to sell.....

all items are gone

Let these items go, as they are no longer needed in my life

all items are gone

painted glass

Painted Glass

I've been painting glass for the past 15 years. Its been an exceptional, reasonably portable hobby and my canvas is always a reclaimed item. I hope that you like this jar. I've made a few pieces since moving to Toronto.

I'm more than happy to take offers on the glass-art. I think that they'd make amazing gifts for the coming holiday season. Every piece takes days and days to make - so just make an offer what you'd like to pay.

This was a peanut butter jar that I've reclaimed

Tiny jam jar - painted - lid included

Household goods - moving sale

all sold

tools for sale

all sold

Gardening For Sale - Tools that is

all items for sale, in the annex - prices start at 1/2 original price

Bless Gaia's Open Spaces

"Let these things go, they have served their purpose well. The space is needed now."

Ahh, things, it is true. We do need 'things' sometimes. Anyhow, I'm not striving to be a perfectionist anything. Right balance is equally important. So sometimes, I need, 'things'.

Originally from BC, we moved to Toronto from Tokyo, via a short stay in Vancouver. We started with what we'd driven here; the two of us and the dog in a small car. We didn't have that much.

We're moving back to BC now. The vast chunk of our intensive 2-year education here in Toronto nearing completion.

For the past 18 months we've been studying Ayurveda and Yoga intensively. We had a collection of spices to add to our cooking, to make cold remedies or hot milk drinks. And, we had a lot of library books cluttering the floor. Shelving was pretty necessary. The majority I managed to get on-line actually, I was pleased.

It is my goal to teach people about this great postural therapy technique. I've known about it for the past 9 years and came to Toronto in order to take a teacher training program. The center of it is here.

Needless to say, I really need to open up the space in my living room.

I've subleased a great place here in the Annex. It is perfect for the lecture demonstrations that I need to give as a requirement for my program.

Back to the shelving, those items are for sale.....

This is a picture taken in December, in Sydney, Nova Scotia - 2007

tools for sale - garden tools in the Annex - Toronto

all items are sold

household goods - moving sale

all items are gone