Make your own skincare workshop

Make your own full sized skin care products from high-quality, natural ingredients. Not only will you know exactly what’s in them, but you’ll blend ingredients to work beautifully with your own skin type.

You'll learn to make your very own:

• lip balm
• gentle cleansing mask
• cooling hydrating toner/facial scrub
  
• facial cleanser

All ingredients, containers and instructions are included in the workshop price and you will receive full sized products to take home for personal use, a recipe list and instruction for the products you've made.

March 8th 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: Ross House Association
First floor meeting room 3, 247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne

Cost: $50/$30 concession
Book here

Like this workshop?

You might like our following workshops:

• Make your own bath products
• DIY Natural Cleaning
• Make your own jams and preserves

Planning a Girls Night In or Hen's Night?

We are able to offer this workshop in the comfort for your own home for you and your guests. Contact us for more information and rates.

Playing catch up on blogging....

I'm a rather behind blogger. I've been busy making things in time for Melbourne's Sustainable Living Festival where Green Renters is having a stall as part of the big weekend and running our life-sized board games (assuming they are finished in time) Rentopology and Sneaks and Ladders. We also have a stencil artist 'in residence' in our stall so people can bring along their calico bags, t shirts or other items and get them stenciled with a new design!


Chris dug up some fresh veggies this afternoon all set for making potato and beetroot mash. I love beetroot! Roast, boiled or eaten raw. Mashed with potato and Nuttlex and served with hot mustard, homemade capsicum and soy sausages, it's a definite treat.

We have loads of herbs in the garden at the moment: rosemary, parsley, basil, vietnamese mint, culinary mint, oregano and thyme. I put bags full out the front with a 'help yourself' sign at regular intervals.


We're also enjoying a bumper crop of strawberries on our breakfast cereal this season. Nothing like homemade produce! We've three Green Renters workshops coming up on making jams and preserves, one of which is booked out already. I'm looking forward to them to demonstrate that preserving is possible even in small spaces without a Fowler kit.


I've also a couple more skincare and bath products workshops coming up. They'll be held at Ross House, in Flinder Lane, Melbourne city and cost $50 full/$30 concession. I've done several practice rounds of each workshop now and tweaked a couple of recipes, bought extra equipment and I feel I've got them nicely polished. All materials and recipes included in each workshop and the ingredients are all vegan.

Here's a cute pic of Chris with Mr Pablo, our 15 year old cat. We adopted him last year and he's surprisingly spritely for an older gentleman!

New year festivities in Woodend

Chris and I had a lovely weekend away in Woodend just after Christmas. We stayed at the lovely Campaspe House, a gorgeous 1920's english style manor house....




The pool was lovely in the heat!


I won at petanque!





Glorious gardens everywhere, all styled by Edna Walling!








Picnic time on the grounds in the shade


A rather bizarre caterpillar found by Chris




Lovely breakfast at the Village Larder

It was nice to get away for a few days, especially when it's so hot here!

Things I like today

Gorgeous light shade
I do love retro robots

This made me laugh

I'm running a FREE natural cleaning workshop on Saturday afternoon in Kensington, you should come along!

Love this handpainted floor!

Things I like today

What do you think about this? I often get asked for freebies for giveaways and such and as I operate on a very low income sometimes find myself having to explain that I just can't afford it with cost of materials and postage....


Love this website comparing French and American icons...


From a funny gallery of political protest signs!

This crockery by Marianne Van Ooij blows my tiny mind. Just love it. Found here

Tomorrow is Melbourne Cup Day. It's a public holiday for the holding of a horse race. I don't support horseracing. This article gives you a good idea why.

Come and enter the Melbourne Vegan Bake Off!

pic from here

Vegan Bake Off!

Saturday March 27th

2pm

Kindness House, 288 Brunswick St
Fitzroy VIC

Categories:

• Cupcakes
• Whole cake
• Biscuits
• Slice
• Savoury
• Raw dessert
• Gluten Free

Prizes to be awarded for best entry in each category as well as an overall Best in Show!

Judges:

• Marieke Hardy (The Book Club, The Age)
• Leigh Munro (long time vegan, vet nurse and animal carer
• Mystery food blogger!

Doors open at 2pm, entries accepted until 2.45pm, judging from 2.50 to 3.20pm and winners are announced at 3.30pm, with entries consumed until 4pm, finishing up at 4.30pm!

Non-Competitors welcome with a gold coin donation.

For more information or to RSVP please email mailto:cate@adukipress.net.au