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Sunday 2nd Annual Handmade Holiday Bath & Body Gifts Sale with AquarianBath

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:06:43 +0000

Sunday from 11am - 4 pm I am hosting a shopping event for my local customers in my garden. You are welcome to shop online in advance and pick up your order on Sunday. There is even a free pick up option at check out here: http://aquarianbath.com.

~ Garden Tour

~ Hot Apple Cider

~ Free Gift with purchase

Address: 46 HIGHRIDGE RD HOLLY HILL FL 32117

Look for the pumpkin patch in the front yard. You can't miss it. I think we counted 17 pumpkins yesterday.

Look for my Soap Christmas Ornaments at Ormond Riverfest

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:10:55 +0000

This weekend is the third annual River Fest in Ormond Beach.

My Christmas Soap Ornaments will be available for purchase from Jimmy Harper in the James Harper Art Gallery Tent.

Nov 19, 2011 - Nov 20, 2011

10 a.m. - 10 pm., Saturday; 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday Rockefeller Gardens 25 Riverside Dr., Ormond Beach. Featuring area restaurants presenting your local favorites. More than 25 musical groups performing. Children's activity area with bounce house and face painting. Two headliners: Claire Lynch and Chuck Pyle. Daily admission is $7.00. Children under 12 FREE.

Have a great weekend.

Cory Trusty

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3rd Annual Hallogreen in Daytona Beach Saturday October 29th

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:29:04 +0000

Daytona Beach will be having it's 3rd Annual Hallogreen event again at City Island right next to the Farmers Market from 8 am until 2 pm. This is one of my favorite events of the year. I will be there with my girls. Moira is planning to sell her granola bars, and she is very excited. I will have a lot of new items including my Deodorant balm, Mint Tooth Powder, Berry Hibiscus tooth powder, my Lavender Patchouli Perfume and more. I'll also be bringing my Christmas soap ornament samples and will be taking orders for those. If you would like me to bring a specific batch of products for you please visit the Aquarian Bath online store, check out and select the free pick up option and I will have it wrapped and ready for you at the event. Check out the full schedule.

SHOP, CRAFT & PLAY--the eco way!

Treat-or-treasuring, kids zone, live music, games, arts & crafts, workshops, and more!

8am The CITE

9am Eek-O Doggy Costume Contest

10am Eek-O Doggy Fashion Show

11am Daytona Beach BellyDance

12noon Eco Fashion Show (Teens Go Green)

1pm Eco Kids Costume Contest

2pm Give-away

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Practical Math Project for Elementary Children: Kid Biz Ventures

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:48:46 +0000

This blog post is a part of a Homeschool Diversity Blog Hop Hosted by The Home Spun Life and Sweet Phenomena. We were invited to share our homeschooling style, favorite field trip places, or ideas for the new year.

I have just started a new project with my second grader Moira. She asked if she could make baked goods to sell at the farmer’s market, and I saw it as a good learning opportunity and math project for her. In previous years Moira has enjoyed juicing oranges to sell at the community garden or making memory wire bracelets to sell here an there. Her new venture is turning out to be good for not just math, but also learning new spelling words, concentration, and for following directions.

Aside from wanting to support Moira with achieving her consistent desire to start a business, I was also influenced to help her since I recently read a recent New York Times op-ed entitled How to Fix Our Math Education. In the recent op-ed authors, Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford focused on higher education math, however I am attempting to extrapolate their insights at the primary level with this new project. The authors favor a sequence of higher education math learning with “replacing the sequence of algebra, geometry and calculus with a sequence of finance, data and basic engineering.” Personally I would go further to include statistics. Notwithstanding, I agree with their conclusion as I recall ‘relearning’ certain algebra skills when I was working in a research lab at the University of Washington, and even later as I formulated my own bath and body recipes.:

A math curriculum that focused on real-life problems would still expose students to the abstract tools of mathematics, especially the manipulation of unknown quantities. But there is a world of difference between teaching “pure” math, with no context, and teaching relevant problems that will lead students to appreciate how a mathematical formula models and clarifies real-world situations.

I am not waiting to apply this type of hands on approach with Moira’s math education. She and I have both been frustrated with certain aspects of learning and teaching math respectively. In working with her in this new project she has initially come up with a cereal bar recipe that she is happy with, and that others have tested and liked. The math that she has learned or used up until this point involves understanding fractions, adding fractions, multiplying, and learning units of measurement. I usually give her the ‘wrong’ measuring cup, and she has to figure out for example how many 1/4th measuring cups she needs for 1 1/4th cups of an ingredient. Soon she will need to learn to double a batch or do more adding with fractions. She is also learning how to use a scale to weigh ingredients. As a part of calculating costs of ingredients, she is doing subtraction with or with out borrowing to determine how much of a particular ingredient that she has used from a set purchased amount of an ingredient. I will be introducing her to division as we continue with this aspect of the project. Just in the last few days of this type of work, I am seeing that her understanding of fractions and the practical work of adding fractions is coming along much easier for her. I’m excited to see how she will do with other aspects of this project such as calculating her costs, budgeting for supplies, learning to make change. I'm hoping that she can debut her new product at the upcoming Hallowgreen event at the farmer's market in Daytona Beach on October 29th. I will be definitely be there again this year with all my usual products, as well as some fun new items like this pumpkin pie soap and my aromatherapy roll ons.

Thanks for reading,

Cory Trusty

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Autumn Classes at Maggie's Herb Farm in St. Augustine with Aquarian Bath

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:51:51 +0000

My Autumn Teaching Schedule at Maggie's Herb Farm in Saint Augustine has been finalized. I hope you find a class that you like.

Soap Making For Sensitive and Problem Skin Types October 22 Saturday time 10:00 AM- 2:00 PM Learn to make soap from scratch using the cold process method and the specialized hot process method for sea salt spa soaps. We focus on hypoallergenic formulations for those with sensitive skin and those well loved by persons with multiple problems including acne. Specialty herbal additives problem skin types in formulations will be discussed. Bring lunch, safety glasses and gloves, and a small cardboard box. Fee $38

Herbal Medicine Making: Tinctures, and Syrups November 12 Saturday time 10:00 AM -2:00 PM Learn the basic methods for herbal home medicine making for your family. This is a hands on class in which you gather herbs from the farm for making tinctures and a cough syrup. We will focus on methods for making preparations and herbal properties. bring a sack lunch. Instructor Cory Trusty Fee $35

Herbal Remedies for Cold and Flu Season November 19 Saturday time 10:00 AM:-2:00 PM Come enjoy a day at the farm learning herbs and remedies for home health care just in time for flu and cold season. We will be making a Cough Syrup, Teas, Soup, a herbal Vick's-type" Chest Salve with farm-fresh herbs and pure essential oils. You will also learn to make Fire Cider for congested sinuses! I will introduce you to colds and flu according to Chinese diagnostic and treatment methods. Bring a sack lunch $35 fee

Also save the dates for my herbal stocking stuffer class on either December 3rd or December 10th. More details to come!

Preregistration is required 2 weeks in advance. Please call the farm to register. 904-829-0722

Cory Trusty

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Chicken Tribute

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:08:19 +0000

It's time again for the Unique Women in Business monthly blog hop. This month's theme is animals. So in case you didn't know, my favorites are chickens. They are wonderful garden helpers, providing natural fertilizer and pest control. Best of all they provide healthy nutritious eggs. Don't believe the hype, those grocery 'vegetarian chicken' eggs aren't all they are cracked up to be. (pun intended).

Chickens thrive on grubs, worms, and other tasty bugs hiding under potted plants and rocks. It's great funto move the rocks or pots for the chickens and watch them scratch and peck.

The other thing I love about chickens is that they are the closest living relative to dinosaurs. In case you haven't seen it this TED talk is pretty cool. Jack Horner wants to reverse engineer dinosaurs from chickens.

I have had a lot of fun with my egg soap molds. If you know any other chicken fans, these soaps would make great gifts. I have Blue sea salt spa soap eggs (Arucauna hens lay blue or green eggs) and Tan Chocolate Soap eggs, White Leghorn eggs coming soon. :) Hope you like them.

You can share your animal themed blog post with the linky tool below for the next few days.

Cory Trusty

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Summer Cooling Off Fun at Blue Springs

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:42:31 +0000

Last week we took a trip to Blue Springs near DeLand, Florida. It was so nice to cool off in the cool water. The temperature is around 73 degrees and is clear and blue. My husband and I took turns walking up to the top of the Spring and going down the little river with the girls.

Watch out for logs and rocks! Moira and I were floating on a palm tree in the water. She thought it made a nice boat.

A little assistance from the water wings were helpful. It's a long trip down the Spring for a 7 year old.

Tessa Bessa finally gets her turn to go down the river.

Hope you all are finding similar ways to cool down during this hot summer.

Another nice way to cool off in the summer is flax neck wraps stashed in the freezer. You can find more of these in my Flax Neck Pillows Shop Section.

Enjoy your summer and don't forget to pack your water!

Cory Trusty

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Christmas in July Sale 10% off at AquarianBath

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:44:31 +0000

Hi everyone. Hope you are enjoying your summer. It's hot and humid here in Daytona Beach. I'm moving real slowwwww this time of year. If you are moving slow too, then you are in luck, because you have through the end of the month to take advantage of my Christmas in July Sale. Take 10% off through the end of the month when you use the coupon code "CIJ10off"

If you haven't visited in a while, I have some great new items:

For wholesale customers, think ahead. If you would like to have these popular gingerbread man ornaments, now is your chance. Follow this listing for 1 gross of holiday Gingerbread man soap on a rope ornaments. These soaps are made to order and are scented with pure essential oils of ginger, clove and cinnamon.

I also have a new Aromatherapy Roll on available. This one is my Immune Assistance Perfume Strength Aromatherapy Roll on. I created this item to benefit the immune system choosing essential oils with antiviral and antibacterial action. Essential oils are also included which detoxify and increase the activity of white blood cells. This blend was created with natural perfumery principles in mind and is perfume strength. It has an herbaceous woody aroma smelling similar to Petigrain at first followed by a lemony scent. It also smells lightly resinous from Frankincense essential oil. Other essential oils include Lavender, Juniper Berry, Lemongrass, Ravensara (ecocertified), Rose Geranium, Eucalyptus stageriana, Fennel, Rosemary, and Ylang Ylang. This is a unisex blend.

Lastly I have a new soap set for those with sensitive skin types. Often times people contact me to make suggestions of soap for their skin types. A common question is "What do you suggest if I have acne and sensitive skin,", or "What do you suggest if I have rough patches and sensitive skin?" In these circumstances I always suggest to go with a plain castile soap and a plain sea salt soap. They can be used for example, castile one day and then sea salt bar the next day, or the Castile bar can be used 2 days followed by the sea salt bar the next day. In this way a person can have the benefit of the ultra gentle castile soap and also the skin polishing sea salt soap. So this listing is for one each of these soaps.

Hope you find something you like.

Cory Trusty

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Red, White and Blue Presidential Quotes

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:00:00 +0000

July 4 is just around the corner. In honor of this Holiday my Unique Women in Business Group is hosting a Red White and Blue blog hop. So I would like to take the opportunity to share with you all some favorite presidential quotes, show off a few red, white and blue products and offer a celebratory coupon code. Enjoy...

Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere. ~ George Washington

When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. ~ Thomas Jefferson

If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. ~Andrew Jackson

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marihuana. ~ Jimmy Carter

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. ~Thomas Jefferson

Every black roof in New York should be white; every roof in Chicago should be white; every roof in Little Rock should be white. Every flat tar-surface roof anywhere! In most of these places you could recover the cost of the paint and the labor in a week. It’s the quickest, cheapest thing you can do. In the current environment it’s been difficult for the mayors to get what is otherwise a piddling amount of money to do it everywhere. Yet lowering the utility bill in every apartment house 10 to 20 percent frees cash that can be spent to increase economic growth. ~Bill Clinton, Newsweek June 27, 2011

Thanks for reading all the way though these favorites! You win a coupon code for 10% off. You can use it now through July 4, 2011. Use the code "starsandstripes" at check out.

Like what you see above? The flag collage features my Microwavable Flax Neck Pillow, my Rose Geranium Roll on Perfume, and my brand new Mental Clarity Aromatherapy Roll On. I'm very proud of my new Mental Clarity Roll on. Weeks of R&D time went into it. Here is a little about if from the item description:

This is an all natural unisex Aromatherapy roll on that I created for enhancing Mental Clarity and improving Brain Function. This is a great item to use while studying, taking an exam, overcoming procrastination and mental blocks, starting new projects or completing projects, playing chess or golf, and much more. Rosemary and Peppermint essential oils are two of the main ingredients. These oils are known to speed up synaptic transmissions. The scent of this oil is very uplifting, fresh, clean and herbaceous.

Now it is time to check out the other Red White and Blue blog posts from the talented UWIB network.

RitaWetzel Hand Made Bits 4 U
Judy Woodley Wellspring Creations
Miriam Nelken Gold Crest Bags
Linda Stranger Cape Cod Jewel
Trudy Miller Momma Goddess Treasures
Wendy Kelly Vintage Day
Ann Rinkenberger Harvest Moon by Hand
Robin Koehler Nestlings by Robin
Audrey Fetterhoff Audrey Garden Lady
Janet Bocciardi Honey From the Bee

Karen TerryJMJ Creations

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Father's Day Bath & Body Favorites

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:24:10 +0000

Father's Day is just around the corner. Do you have something special picked out for dad yet? If not, save on Father's Day shopping with the coupon code "dad" through the weekend. You will receive 10% off your total purchase. Ttake a minute to check out these popular men's items in my shop. My Extra Stout Soap, pictured above, is made with Guinness in the water phase and in scented with essential oils of Cedarwood, Patchouli and Sweet Orange. This is a long time best seller and has a rich creamy lather.

These Evergreen Woodland Soaps are favorites among the nature lovers and those longing for the woods. These bars also have a rich creamy lather and are scented with a refreshing green blend of Black Spruce, Fir and Pine essential oils.

Earthy dads will love this Unisex Patchouli roll on made with Golden Jojoba and high quality aged Patchouli essential oil.

Have a great weekend!

Cory Trusty

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