A visit to Green Dandelion

I meant to write this past last week but I was laid low over the weekend with an acute case of vertigo and that meant I was unable to do anything apart from lie in bed and try not to move because if I did the result was immediate nausea and vomiting. Thankfully I have recovered apart from feeling really tired from the Labyrinthitis caused by a virus. As my son and I leave for Melbourne in a few days I was thinking that I might have to cancel the trip if I didn't improve. Last week a friend and I visited Green Dandelion which is now in the old Sauce Kitchen building in Station Street, Toowoomba within walking distance from the Grand Central Shopping Centre. So if you were wondering what had happened to Suanne as she hasn't been at the Cobb and Co farmers' markets for some time, then you can find her there in her new shop.

Using pine resin on beeswax wraps

Recently our Simple Living Toowoomba group had a workshop showing us how to make beeswax wraps. Of course beeswax is used to coat the fabric but to make it stick much better pine resin is added as well. One of my friends sent me a link to an article called Why we don't sell gum rosin/tree resin for your beeswax wraps. I forwarded the link onto Suanne from Green Dandelion who presented our workshop and sells the equipment needed to make your own wraps as I knew she had her finger on the pulse and would have looked into this issue beforehand. She emailed me back and is happy for me to share the information she sent.

 

Simple Living Toowoomba ~ Beeswax Wraps and Soapmaking Workshops

This morning our Simple Living Toowoomba group held two workshops in one time-slot...soapmaking and beeswax wraps. When planning the morning we thought we would be pushed for time but, due to the competence of our two presenters, Racheal and Suanne, we were finished much earlier allowing time for lots of questions to be answered and ideas to be discussed.

Soap coloured with madder root

How to make beeswax wraps

At the risk of repeating myself (which I never do of course) I thought I would do a blog post specifically about how to make beeswax wraps to make it easier to find in the future even though I wrote about the process in my last post. Racheal now has the instructions written out in the post War on Waste and the Beeswax Wraps on our Simple Living Toowoomba website so it will be better to keep everything in the one post.