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Review of the Aroma Zone soap making workshop

I recently went to a soap making workshop  organized by the French company Aroma-Zone ( AZ ) and this blog post is a review of the workshop.  Here you have the full description (in French) of this 1 hour and a half class:  Cet atelier a pour objectif de vous enseigner la technique de la saponification à froid en réalisant une recette de savon surgras. Vous pourrez ainsi repartir avec votre réalisation et tout le savoir-faire Aroma-Zone !  Vous apprendrez à maîtriser les points importants de la réalisation d'un savon saponifié à froid, les diverses astuces de fabrication, la maîtrise des ingrédients, leur mise en oeuvre, leurs bienfaits sur la peau. BRIEFLY , the class should teach you the basics of cold process soaping (soaping tips, management of the critical steps of soap making, control of ingredients and their features), you should make a soap  and bring it home . Everything in 1 hour and a half 😮 !!! I'll review  the workshop by assigning a number between

Handmade 3-in-1 agenda: a notebook, a photo album and a planner

I recently bought the fantastic Lawn Fawn Plan-On-It-Calendar stamp set and some Memento Dew Drop ink pads  with the intention of making my first scrapbooking agenda/planner ever! Considering the amount of money I spent to buy these goods, I didn't have the heart to buy also a new planner to decorate.... I therefore decided to create the agenda from scratch with what I had at home !!! Front cover :  Canson brown 150 g/m² paper + scrapbooking paper. Back cover : recycled cardboard + brown Kraft paper. I've recycled the loops of a wire-bound mini notebook ...and used them to bind the planner! I've decorated the front cover with a water-colored Swiss Pixie Tiny Heart stamp from CC Design Stamps and some die cuts from the Sizzix Scribbles and Splat die set and from the Florilège Design nesting tag die set . While for the back cover, I've used the die cuts obtained with the  Xcut  Circle nesting dies ,  the Sizzix  Scribbl