Comfrey Salve, Plagiarism, and Mind Blowing Stuff

And it may or may not be in that particular order. It's 11:23. I'm entitled to scattered-ness occasionally. XD

So comfrey salve! Monday is the first Farmer's Market here in town, and Mom and I have been preparing for the past week. Mom is going to be doing her Bread for Life stuff (she sells baked goods and uses the proceeds to support orphans in Honduras), and I'll be selling salves and other various herbal thingies. So far I've got cough drops (4 bags of 20, not counting the wrapped ones) and today I made a batch of salve.

This is what it looks like right after cooling:

The green is from the plantain and comfrey oils. It's a clear greenish-gold liquid when poured, and solidifies within about 10 minutes. I love this stuff.

I got jars (4 oz) and tins (2 oz) yesterday, thus much planning of stuff has been taking place. Next time I'll probably get them a size or two smaller, because these tins are huge compared to the little 1 oz tins I normally use. Eesh.

I'll be selling the big tins for $4 and the little tins for $2 this Monday! If you're in town, feel free to stop by and see what we've got. *holds up stuff hopefully*

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You know those cups that have gotten really popular lately? The plastic double-walled ones with a heavy-duty screw-on top and reusable straw? I almost got one today, and then was struck with the brilliant idea of turning one of my mason jars into a nifty look-alike. I hadn't worked out the schematics yet, but I thought it was a great idea and may have done a little patting on the back of being so brilliant.

Then I got onto Pinterest. One of the first things I saw in my feed was this:

AUGH! Yet again, I've been beaten to a fantastic idea...cue wind being severely taken out of the sails. Sigh. It DID answer a few questions (namely how to drill a hole in the lid, and where to find rubber grommets), but still. That was MY idea. Mine. My own. *clutches blue mason jar protectively*

Mind-plagiarists. O.e

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So I saw War Horse tonight for the first time. First off, I've been soured on horse movies since forever--having owned/trained horses tends to do that, because I spent 90% of the time yelling 'no, horses don't act/think that way!'--but this had two redeeming points: Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch.

I can see the question marks forming...so let me proceed.

This is Tom Hiddleston:

(He's the dude who played Loki. But he was a good guy in War Horse.)

And here's Benedict Cumberbatch:

(It's Sherlock! With red hair! Holy crap! O.o)

These two fought side by side in the movie (on horseback, of course) and were in it for only about 10 minutes, which made me sad. But I digress.

So anyway. I was watching the movie when out of nowhere Tom Hiddleston pops up and starts talking like a posh British gentleman. I almost spit my tea onto the computer screen from laughing so hard. And less than 5 minutes later, Benedict Cumberbatch (WITH A MUSTACHE) pops up, cuing the same reaction. Then both characters die heroically and I was sad. Anyway.

So War Horse was all right--a bit rambly story-wise, but beautifully filmed. After finishing that I looked up the play online, and was thoroughly impressed with the way puppeteers made the horse puppets look very life-like. One video in particular stood out:

It's the main character 'interacting' with a real horse...I'm very, very impressed with the way the puppet moves (I keep wanting to say 'he' and 'the horse'--that's how good it is) and kinda wish that I could have seen the play onstage just to see the horses. But yes, much mind-blowing was going on. It were pretty cool.

(I also may or may not be getting slightly obsessed with Tom Hiddleston a.k.a. Loki and Benedict Cumberbatch a.k.a. Sherlock/Smaug. I shall try to contain the fan-sploding to a minimum. And with that final note, good night.)