Lieu de Reves, Egyptian Musk, and Sienna Musk

I just discovered the home page on my website is down because thousands of sites hosted by my webhost were hit by a hacker attack; the home pages were taken down but they are backed up and will be online again shortly. For now, you can still reach the rest of my site, just not…

Mark Behnke at Cafleurebon just posted a review of the new Spiced Citrus Vetiver on Cafleurebon, and they are hosting a drawing for a 17 ml bottle in celebration of the release. You can head on over to enter the drawing. I’m glad Mark liked the final version. Since the earlier version he’d tried, I…

My youngest niece just had a birthday party yesterday and she got a new kitten (photo above). They ended up getting two, a brother/sister pair, to keep each other company. Very cute. My older niece competed in her first combined training event last weekend (a horseback riding competition). She did well and her horse did…

Had my appointment yesterday and everything is going fine. Won’t be completely healed for a couple weeks, but all looks good and I’m getting back to some blending and website work. We’ll be switching to jars for the shea cream since it is just thick enough to make it a little hard to squeeze from…

Happy holidays! Wishing those who celebrate a happy holiday with family and friends! I’m very grateful to be able to share with you here on the blog and to have this opportunity to meet so many wonderful people. 🙂

Thank you, Neil, for your beautiful review of Spiced Citrus Vetiver on The Black Narcissus! I agree that it’s a softer take on vetiver. Glad you enjoyed trying it! You have a lyric way of writing that makes visiting your blog a treat. 🙂 Neil’s review was actually helpful to me coming at this moment….