Anyone doing home improvement? I finished putting together a garden shed which includes an outdoor tile border for planters, soil, whatever — sort of a potting bench. I discovered that tiling isn’t as hard as I’d thought but BOY is it a lot of steps. I felt like a pro putting down Hardiebacker and mortaring seams and…

Right? I even noticed it in a NY Times editorial last week. Without fail, his most vociferous defenders were men who had some real vested interest in Playboy for whatever reason and thought Hefner was great and we should forgive his treatment of women because it was for some nobler cause (boners, I guess). Idk why…

I keep reading gross things about Hugh Hefner this week (none of which really surprise me but weren’t necessarily anything I sought out before) —and without fail, there will be a ton of dudes in the comments section talking about how he was great and did SO MUCH for women and how women need to “get over” all the…

I will check those out — I love skin masks and have bought every mask Pacifica makes but have been a bit disappointed — wanting something more clay-based. Do any of yours work for tightening pores, or do you have any recommendations?

I can’t reply to anyone apparently so going to have to chance it in the greys. We had a super productive weekend at my house!

Not yet — I’m trying to build up a supply and then may look at an etsy store. Right now most of my soaps are earmarked for xmas gifts, but if I keep making soap at this rate I think I will need to start selling to justify my hobby :) I’ll post an update in a future Saturday night social when that happens!

I made another batch of soap (too late for the eclipse but oh well, my hope is it can still work for fall/Halloween). It has activated charcoal and is tobacco & bay leaf scented. Really loving this one so far!

Reminder that she has power and oversight over federal TRIO programs — programs that have been around since LBJ and directly target generational poverty through education. God help us all.

I just came here to post about her bangs! I don’t think I would consider anyone to be very “smart” if they ran for public office with THOSE bangs.

On a related note, I’m in N Idaho and would be willing to volunteer to drive low-income women to Canada once a month for access to Mifegymiso (RU486); however, I’m not familiar with how available it is in BC. Any Canadians here to weigh in? Hell, I’d be willing to chip in on a drone to fly pills to women in Kentucky…

Have heart — I see signs that the pendulum may be swinging back the other way. After Harvey, there has been a LOT of public backlash against evangelical churches (aka Trump supporters whose views on sin and suitability for public office have ~*~magically~*~ changed over the past two years, whoda thunk it).

Ok so I often rely on Amy’s for work lunches (and my local discount grocery store almost always carries mattar paneer, which is my absolute favorite) — that being said, I had an absolutely horrible experience with their “Light n Lean” spaghetti and meatless-meatballs. The quinoa meatballs were actually pretty good but…

Moths are also terrible because some have larvae that are known as cutworms, which look like little grubs that live underground and kill all of your precious fragile seedlings in the spring.

I direct a federal grant program and my officer in DC won’t even let me move money out of a trustee benefits category at the end of the grant for a new office chair to replace a broken one (~$200) and these assholes get to appropriate a whole fucking plane?

If you figure it out, send me a message!

Your carrot and coconut soap sounds lovely; I imagine it must have felt great on your skin afterwards. Baby food is such a great idea!

Yep, cold process — I started by buying kits from Bramble Berry. The first couple were spendy ($150 for the first, $120 for the second) but after those my subsequent purchases have been much more reasonable. The infrared thermometer was the best purchase ever — now I’m slowly replacing all of the Tupperware in the…

I will definitely look into it! I’m loving the soap calculators and learning about saponification and superfatting and various discounts. I’ve been following Soap Queen tutorials lately; currently trying to figure out how to get my soap to completely gel (if you look at the photo you can see that some of the pieces…

Oh the times I’d love to leave a note! I now live in a place where parking isn’t a huge deal, but when I lived in Denver (Capitol Hill, where street parking was sometimes a blood sport) I fantasized about leaving notes soooo often.

Thanks for the tip; I may give it another go this winter — I’ve always wanted to knit myself a super long, soft scarf which seems like an ok project since it’s basically just a big long rectangle :)