Good afternoon.
My essential oils finally came this week so I finished up my canna cream this morning. Here is the final recipe plus some photos:
- 22 grams of beeswax
- 11 grams of shea butter
- 10 grams of decarbed Hash Plant
- 274 grams of sweet almond oil with 174 grams infused with cannabis
- 15 drops tea tree essential oil
- 15 drops peppermint essential oil
I picked up the little bowls with lids from the dollar store. Each bowl is 8 ounces.
And, as I posted previously, it's smooth and creamy and not greasy at all. I haven't tried it yet as I still have a little left from the last batch that I made in March. I didn't get as much cream this time though so I don't think this stuff will last as long.
Beautiful, HashGirl! Looks like you've done splendidly -- again.
Congrats and hats off to you, my friend. You deserve it.
Please let us know how well it works for you. Soon enough I'll have enough product to finally make some of my own. I'm now two weeks off my chopping time, if the weather holds. I don't want to have to chop these ones down early like I had to do with the four others.
Just an aside, for anyone who is wondering, the book preparations for the release of Finding Max are coming along splendidly. We (my editor and i) are diligently working still on editing the book. I am also working hard at planning the marketing aspect of it. To raise money for the marketing, I may do a bid on Kickstarter.com. Crowdfunding, here we come, if I can pull it off.
The goal is to raise enough to drive all around the upper east coast of the US and Canada, then repeat on the west coast, going as far south as Los Angeles (primarily LA so that I can stop and spend some time at my publishing company getting to know them all better. They maybe don't know it yet, but I plan on this relationship lasting a long time!
I also want to raise some money for signage and the vehicle needed to do all that driving in but that also has camper room in it so that I can spend the nights in campgrounds. Sure would be cheaper than renting a vehicle and staying in hotels, right? Plus a helluva lot more relaxing and good for the soul. I can't see any better way to do this book tour than to travel by camper. And at the end of it all? I still own the camper!
I've put out a bid to all my friends recently, and I'do like to offer you all the same chance to direct the sales of Finding Max.
My publisher has asked me to gather a list of friends and acquaintances who would be willing to purchase the book when it first comes out, read it, then post an HONEST review of it on the Amazon platform. The review would need to be posted within the first two weeks after the book Co es out.
How does this help? Consider this. When a potential buyer of the book is looking at a first book by an author, they often peruse the reader reviews to see not only what people are saying, BUT HOW MANY REVIEWS ARE ACTUALLY POSTED. So, if there are either none or just a few reviews, the buyer usually passes that particular book by.
This info all comes from Amazon's marketing department itself.
So your review, even if you hated the book and say so in the review can still be good for the book because it increases the sheer number of reviews. We always make allowances for one or two poor reviews.
So if any of you are interested in helping out with the sales of Finding Max, and I would be so very grateful if you were willing to help out with the reviews, then please take a brief moment to pm me.
And for those few of you who know nothing about what I'm talking about here, Finding Max is a novel I wrote last summer and found a publisher for in November. Finding Max tells a harrowing tale.
Gary, eight, and his younger brother, Max, are playing in a playground on a hot summer day. Gary tune his back for a moment and Max disappears. Seventeen years later the two brothers meet serendipitously through Gary's work. As the two struggle, with the help of Gary's new girlfriend, Jean, to both trust and love one another, they must also evade the evil clutches of the nefarious Quinn who seeks to re-abduct Max for his own dastardly ends. Finding Max will keep you reading far into the night as you find yourself unable to put the book down. Don't you just love a great thriller?
So that's the plot behind my novel Finding Max. Please, if any of you are planning on reading the book anyway, then please help me out if you can with this simple request to write that short -- and honest -- review if you can.
I would be more grateful than you realize if you could help out in this way.
Anyway, so that's my long winded posting for the day. I do hope everyone is okay. Cannafan? Haven't heard anything from you for a while. You still slumming it in this study hall. Sure do hope so.
And the same goes out to all of you. I hope you are well and, if you're Canadian, then enjoying this Thanksgiving weekend which is now thrust upon us already.
Keep well, my friends.
Best,
Magnus.
My last batch of cream was too runny. It was still effective as a healing cream, but I was hoping for something less sloppy. I'll pull it out of the fridge and work in a little more beeswax this weekend.
) so now I think I will just leave it out or maybe put a small amount of the cream in a separate container and add lavender and maybe peppermint just to that one.
How's the smell with that blend?