52 New Things catch-up

[zebra363]

12.  Make my own hand cream/lip balm from beeswax. I need to perfect my recipe, but want to keep doing this. My sister and brother-in-law keep bees, so I have a steady supply of beeswax

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[stephbg]

I really thought #17 was going in a different direction.

[juffles]

So I'm not the only one who had visions of Zebra sitting on her porch sipping tea while two strapping young lads wave rapiers at each other? *phew*

[zebra363]

You should have seen the fencing demo at Swancon. They were hitting each other with gloves - apparently that's the way to learn the footwork!

[stephbg]

You are not alone :-)

[psycho_tabby]

17. fencing workshop.

I read that as fencing as in the white suit, rapier, en guard! kind of fencing and I was trying to work out why they were tying their rapiers (wire?) into knots. Any why on earth you would rather have somebody fight for you instead of joining in?

I was all very confused before I worked it out *grin*

[psycho_tabby]

Oh *reads comments above*
and I apparently wasn't the only one *grin*

[juffles]

No no, you are in....populous, if not illustrious company.

[victorian_tweed]

Any recs from the movies at Glamfest, Z?

Breaking wire with bare hands? WOW! I helped a friend do some fencing repairs years and years ago. I vaguely remember using wire strainers, and how hard it was to dig fence post holes - I suspect if I had a property I'd be paying someone to do it for me too!

Oooh, I'd be interested in your beeswax hand cream/lip balm recipe when you have finalised it, Z. My local bee-keeper (and I love that I have one) sells beeswax at the market.

Do you put any essential oils in it?

[zebra363]

I saw "Save Me", about a Christian gay conversion program, "I Can't Think Straight," a lesbian romance, and "Ciao", about a man who found after his best friend's death that his friend had been involved in an online relationship and had been about to meet the other man in person. He invited this other man to come visit anyway and they did a lot of reminiscing. I don't strongly recommend any of them, but enjoyed them all, though the last was VERY slow.

Everything about fencing seems quite hard, and it's really not a one-person job. The tools to do things the relatively easy way are expensive, too.

All I put in my initial test run with the beeswax was castor oil to soften it up, but there are all sorts of recipes online: here and here for example. I had a commercially made one I really liked that had shea butter in it.

[victorian_tweed]

Thank you so much for the reviews, and the links are great! I think I will have a go at some of these things.

[cricketk]

:)

This makes me smiley.