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Sale time! Incense again. Shipping $3.00 to the US; if you're anywhere else, tell me what you want and where you are, and I'll find out how much it would cost to ship. My ebay feedback is here.

( Cut to spare your f-pages; Shoyeido Kyonishiki and Nokiba, and Kyukyodo Shirohato... )

Also, I've still got tarot reading slots open!

MY INCENSE POO

IT BURNS

THANK GOD

AND! It actually smells kind of amazing this time! I mean I'm sure there are many faults an expert could find with it, but this is only my third try at stick incense, guys! AND YET IT SMELLS OF NOM. \:D/

VICTOLY

(It smells, for the curious, less of the snickerdoodles now, and more of the spicy frankincense-and-cedar I was originally going for, but it's kind of like spicy frank-and-cedar covered in vanilla ice cream. Apparently? Just a little benzoin goes a long, LOOOONG way. Note to self: go easy on the benzoin, srsly.)

((Also, find a way of extruding incense that does not involve exerting 9832479287 tons of pressure on a little plastic syringe. Had to enlist Dave's help and even he had a little trouble with the damn thing.))

I held this up to Dave and said "smell it!"* His expression was worth more than 1000 words. I should put a little red hat on it and call it Mr. Hankey, the Incense Poo.

I hope everything's ground small enough - the sifter let through some awfully large chunks of spikenard, and by then I was so sick of trying to get this shitty coffee grinder to give me actual powder I just shrugged and went with it.

It smells amazing - like snickerdoodles, which is not what I was going for, but whatever, "essence of snickerdoodle" would make a good X-mas gift - but whether it'll smell like anything more than vaguely spicy smoke once they're done remains to be seen. (Well, whether they'll actually burn remains to be seen. I was guessing pretty wildly with how much laha to add.)

*Spoiler! Not actually poo!

So, that poll last night was pretty much to confirm my suspicions - that LJ people aren't going to want to go off LJ for an incense comm, while I was already pretty sure that the already existing incense community (most of whom aren't on LJ) are going to vastly prefer a message board and aren't likely to participate on an LJ comm.

I could make both, but I'm not sure how well that would work out. (Plus, that'd be twice the work, and I'd be needing to find two other people willing to mod rather than one.) DILEMMA.

Oh! Yes. While I'm thinking about it, does anyone have suggestions for a (reasonably) good free message board service?

SO! There's all these communities out there for trading and selling BPAL and other perfumes, Lush products, etc. I've been thinking there needs to be a community like that for incense! You know, where people could sell unwanted stuff, split boxes with other people, run sample circles, and that sort of thing. (It would be a way for incense n00bs to try new things at discounted prices! ...and for the rest of us to try new things at discounted prices! Ahem.) And on that note...

Please to be answering my 2 question poll on LJ, yes? :D?