Spring is in the Air!

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Comment by Rebecca Hunter on April 18, 2010 at 9:13pm

Lisa,

Love the new candles! Of course anything "Rose" is a favorite for me. You have some interesting new blends I've not seen before.

Hope you got the chance to go see Johnny in Alice in Wonderland. (Know you are a fellow fan!) Crazy funny and funky green contacts with frizzy red clown wigs! (and of course the usual Tim Burton "white face makeup" Took me a while to get used to that idea (red hair and green eyes on Johnny), but after seeing the trailers a couple dozen times the idea grew on me. Still can't wait for Capt. Jack to be back though.

We took our sons to the theater last night to watch "How to Train Your Dragon". Cute movie, but definitely geared toward 4-10 year old boys. Charlie (my oldest, the one with autism) did better that he has at a indoor movie theater since he was a baby. Hopefully he's getting over his sensory issues with the surround sound. Still, the drive-in goes better with him (and of course the double features are great value for family budget.) I know we will go to the drive in to see Toy Story 3, that new one where Brenden Fraiser gets beat up by wildlife and I am begging hubby to take me to see the Prince of Persia (maybe a date night w/o kids, if Charlie's speech teacher will watch them for us, as she did recently when we went to a tele-class on teaching special needs kids hygiene (more of an issue than you'd think when they start getting over 60 or 70 lbs and it becomes difficult to help them bathe and such... some point they have to learn to do it themselves if they are high functioning enough to do so.) Husband of course can't wait until fall for the next installment of Harry Potter.

I will definitely agree with your praise of spring. It's FINALLY here in South Dakota too. Pasture is finally turning green, the neighbors are planting their fields and we are starting to see a few new baby fawns when we drive to town. Seems like it was a very long winter and we had huge snow drifts on the ground for about 4 months this year (taller than our barnyard fences which are 5 feet in most places, up to 8 feet in others... the cows were walking in and out of the other animals' pens at will and we finally had to buy a llama to keep coyotes away from the new baby goats, as the predators waltzed into the goat pen and took out at least 3 goat kids . We named her Mama-Llama, she's white with red spots like an appaloosa horse. Can't wait to shear her this summer so I can spin the wool and make myself some fabulous llama wool socks!) With no goat milk all winter, I spent most of the winter months working on my new line of mineral makeup and skin care creams.

The all natural lipstick line is going well with 7 colors (covered all the basics: plum, rose-pink, red (w/ blue undertone for whiter looking teeth), peach, copper, nude, and bronze... except coral... which is remarkably elusive w/o using FD&C dyes... in theory a nice bright pink and some orange should equal coral, but have not found that magic formula yet.) Foundation about 14 shades currently (possibility of adding more if need is there ... maybe some fun and weird stuff for Halloween/stage makeup for the coming fall season too... I think the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen from Alice will be hot... probably "blue face" makeup too (Avatar, Smurfs and the like... okay, so I just want to make my husband dress up as Papa Smurf for Halloween... too funny and his beard is perfect for it with the help of a little baby powder!) The blushes, a work in progress, but so far 7 of them plus a bronzer/blush color. Eye-shadows... that's all fun and games... time to play with color, shimmer, light vs. dark, drama vs. subtle, youth vs. wisdom and maturity. Anything goes for eyes really, long as you use the right pigments. A day cream and a night cream for maturing skin are a work in progress that I need to get back to soon. First batch of the day-time cream had a bit too much of the titanium dioxide that I'd added for sunscreen effect and left a white film on skin (however I've been using it for a couple weeks and like it otherwise as it seems to improve skin texture, elasticity and helping with wrinkles although I am not "claiming" more that it's use as a "moisturizing cream" due to labeling issues of course)... so I have to make another batch w/o color added to thin out pigment that a bit. Once I get that project completed, I will start work on a lotion for oily/teen skin. Now that spring has arrived I am also working on some new soaps, including a customer request for "lilac scented" and a mechanic's soap (hope to have that ready in time for Father's Day shopping).

Nothing like spring to make a person want to get back to work and back to creativity.