I’m at Jazz Fest in New Orleans listening to awesome music and eating even more awesome food. A little hot, a little muddy, but everyone’s having a great time. So come on down!   Follow my Via Pim moblog for some realtime shots at http://chezpim.com/via (I’m using iPhone for the photos do pardon the quality.)

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At Jazz Fest in New Orleans

Like making candles, but do not like the mess? Or have you purchased tarts before and you found them expensive? Wax “tarts” are used to scent the home, and are burned in potpourri burners

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How to make Tart Shaped Wax Tarts

You not solely save onyour precious resources with this home made solution, but in addition have the choice to alter the elements to make a fragrance that is uniquely you. Recipes To Make Your Own Body Spray

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Homemade Body Spray – Make Your Own Body Spray | YOU NEED CONTENT

Homemade lip gloss is bound to make an exquisite reward and shall be a fantastic hit with younger girls. In case you are nonetheless questioning find out how to make lip gloss, then this is how one can go about it.

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Clean and Safe is a guide created by the The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA), an organization who sort of frowns on homemade cleaners. SDA notes, “When consumers purchase commercial cleaning products, they bring home not only a …

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Poison Prevention Week – Homemade Green Cleaner Safety

Do peanut butter and jelly sandwiches bring back fond memories of elementary school? This is a famous recipe from Debbie from SoapyLove Fame . She has taught this technique @ The Nova Studio ( http://www.thenovastudio.com/ ) in Point Richmond, CA.

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Melt & Pour: Peanut Butter & Jelly Soap Sandwich

March is Go Green Month over at Sew Much Ado , and today I’m participating by showing you how to take an old pair of jeans and t-shirt and refashioning them into a cute maternity pencil skirt.

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Refashioned Jeans to Maternity Skirt Tutorial

Do you make your own liquid soap and are looking for an unique dispenser to put it for yourself, to sell or to give as a gift? Then why not create your own? Here is a tutorial from Heather Bullard’s site on how to create your own soap ispenser.

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Make Your Mason Jar Soap Dispenser

Disclaimer: This information is in no way intended to be a substitute for modern medical care. Do not self-treat any medical complaint without the guidance of a licensed health care provider . August 7, 2000 The word perfume derives from Latin meaning “through smoke”, and indeed, the first perfumes were incenses used to sweeten one’s prayers for the gods

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Home-made Perfumes

Here is a new instructional video from Soap Queen TV for Massage Candles which appears on Vimeo. Massage candles are a wonderfully luxurious treat to make for yourself or that special someone. A massage candle is a blend of skin safe waxes, oils and essential oils that melt at a low temperature, perfect for a warm and soothing massage

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Massage Candles From Soap Queen TV

Chef Reggie Aspiras’ Summer Cooking Class Schedule March 10 (Wednesday) – My Version of the Famous “Panizza” – All New! – 6 Flavors of Paper Thin Pizza – Seafood, Mixed Cured Meats, Prawn and Sun dried Tomatoes, Paper Thin Angus Beef, Spring Vegetables, Roasted Garlic with Cheese and Herbs – Rolled &Served with Fresh Arugula, Parmesan Dip and Garlic Oil March 12 (Friday) – Lenten Specials 1 – 2010 – All New! Alasakan King Crab Paella, Chipirones – “Baby Squid Adobo, Spanish Fried Baby Squid Calamares 2 Ways with Dipping Sauces, Japanese Carbonara of Soba with Kani & Crab Roe, Shrimp Cakes – Thai & Vietname Style. Bonus: Bacalao – Special Class 2,000 Excluding Ingredients March 13 (Saturday) – Lumpia – All New! – Lumpiang Shanghai – 3 Way Shanghai (Smoked Pork, Pork and Shrimp, Hamonado), Fried Lumpiang Ubod, Mushroom Lumpia, Sweet Potato with Shrimp and Pork Asado, Roast Chicken Lumpia, Lumpiang Salmon

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Chef Reggie Aspiras March 2010 Summer Cooking Class Schedule

From Wholesomebabyfood.com – How absolutely sad and depressing! Another reason to start fresh wholesome foods early on! 3 to 5-year-olds [in this study] generally thought of fast food, for example, as “fun, exciting, and tasty”, and thought of cola brands as fun for reasons such as “the bubbles are fun,” and “lots

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3 – 5 year old kids have brand recognition “fast food is “fun”

Anne Marie (aka The Soap Queen ) was experimenting with some shea butter and came up with this really easy Whipped Shea Butter recipe: Ingredients 14 oz Shea Butter 5 oz Coconut Oil 6 ml Cranberry Fig Fragrance Oil (or your choice) Electric Mixer 4 ounce jars Instructions Combine all ingredients and whip for 6-7 minutes in an electric mixer on medium/high. Spoon into jars. That’s it

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Easy Whipped Shea Butter

From Wholesomebabyfood.com – Last week I was contacted by “jane” whose daycare center told her she would not be able to bring in her homemade baby food any longer.  The National Association for the Education of Young Children is a body that daycare centers in the U.S. seek accreditation from.  The NAEYC has proposed

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Comment on NAEYC’s Emerging Standard for Daycare Centers and Homemade Baby Food

Just like my friend The Amateur Gourmet Adam, who posted about his recipe-tweaking habit recently, I’m not one to leave a perfect good recipe alone.  Even when it comes to something so simple, and so seemingly perfect, I rarely could stop myself from tweaking it a little.  At times the results my tinkering are disastrous – Dorie Greenspan’s perfectly innocent French Yogurt Cake recipe I played with yesterday was one, but that story’s for another time.  At other times, however, I ended up with something like this Banana Bread, which I think – rather ungrammatically I might add – is a more perfect version of an already perfect recipe.

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The Morning-after Banana Bread – or how I can’t leave a perfectly good recipe alone

For your next Easter Egg Hunt instead of boiling eggs and hiding them, why make these cute glitter egg soaps for the kids to find? Or decorate your holiday with them. If you do not celebrate Easter, then maybe you can make them for some other reason

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Glitter Egg Soap Making Project

by Allison B. Kontur ( http://www.bathbodysupply.com/ ) You will need : 3 oz Epsom Salts 2 oz Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) 1 oz Citric Acid 2 oz Lathanol LAL 0.50 oz Dendritic Salt 2.5 ml (1/2 tsp) Rain Fragrance Oil 1.25 ml (1/4 tsp) Peppermint Fragrance Oil 20 drops D&C Green #5, Liquid Colorant 8 drops FD&C Yellow #5, Liquid Colorant Face Mask Rubber Gloves Zipper Style Plastic Baggies (Gallon Size) Phase 1: Combine Epsom Salts, Baking Soda, Citric Acid & Lathanol in a zipper style plastic baggie

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Irish Rain Fizzing Salts

Are you a melt and pour soapmaker and you are having problems in getting an even distribution of suspended ingridents like oatmeal, etc.; here are some tips from Squidoo : Ingredients like oatmeal, herbs, spices and dried flowers add texture and decoration to soap. One common problem is that they naturally float up to the top and do not stay distributed throughout the whole bar. There are two options to keep ingredients suspended evenly.

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Tip: Even Distribution of Suspended Ingredients

From Wholesales Supplies Plus Blog . Make sure to also check out Wholesales Supplies Plus website for other useful info, supplies, etc. Dee in customer service made this ADORABLE set of bath salts

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Spring Time Colored Bath Salts

By eHow Hobbies, Games & Toys Editor This raffia braid makes a great housewarming gift . Instructions Difficulty: Easy Things You’ll Need : Colored Raffia Dried Wheat Sheaves Raffia Braids Fall Picks Floral Tape Glue Guns Hot Glue Sticks Potpourri Preserved Italian Oak Leaves White Glues Scissors Acorns Wire Cutters Directions : Step 1 Use a preformed raffia braid – it’s easier than trying to make your own.

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How to Make a Decorative Scented Braid