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Hello, Sexy! Make Your Own Unique Handmade Solid Perfume
Hey, sexy. Yeah, you. The one that smells so good – the one that's unique and alluring.
Today, we're going to learn how to make our own solid perfume, and I promise you (PROMISE YOU) that if you choose to do this, no one in the world will smell just like you. Ever again. You'll have that precious je ne sais quoi that doesn't just make other people go "yum," but that keeps your spirits high constantly (because, hello aromatherapy).
Not only do you want to make your own perfume to celebrate your individuality (girl power!), but before you spritz on that mass marketed bottle of Poison (haha! irony!), consider this:
- Synthetic fragrances contain hormone (endocrine) disruptors that can lead to a whole host of medical problems, including hormone imbalance, thyroid issues and cancer
- Synthetic fragrances kick allergic reactions into high gear for many people, leading to headaches, respiratory issues and other disorders
- Millions of people suffer from sensitivities to synthetic fragrance, so that sexy scent you think you're blessing the world with is actually making life harder for people around you
But we want to smell yummy, right? And we still can. Just not with store-bought perfumes. Instead, we'll make our own – with all-natural essential oils.
And talk about the most incredible handmade gift to give someone – there's nothing more personal than scent (except maybe tax returns). Your mom love the smell of nutmeg? Best friend goes gaga over anything lavender? Here. Here is what you do.
Personal Perfumery – It's All In The EOs
This is so ridiculously easy – seriously hardcore simple. But there's one little trick to it: Blending essential oils.
Before you start to make your perfume, you'll need to decide what it's going to smell like.
Step 1: Deciding on Your Signature Scent
There's absolutely no reason why you can't just use a single essential oil when blending your own perfume. It won't be as complex as the perfumes you're used to, but it works. And after wearing it for a few days or weeks, it becomes you.
I know a woman – a beautifully warm and vivacious woman – who only wears patchouli as a fragrance. That's it. But instead of smelling like a hippie-just-showered, she smells like … her. I cannot smell patchouli from a bottle without retching a little (personal preference), but on HER, it's magical. Warm. Personal. It's not patchouli – it's Roxy.
However, you might want to blend a few essential oils to create a more complex and daring scent. And this is where the difficulty – and the magic comes in.
- Go to a natural foods store (like Whole Foods) and spend some time with the essential oils there. Find ONE that calls to you, that gives you that little "lift" as soon as you smell it.
- Buy it if you'd like, but then come home and learn about what the scent blends well with. I like to peruse the essential oil profiles on Mountain Rose Herbs for ideas.
- But then, after you've found what the oil blends well with, go to the list here at the middle of the page, and from it pick a top note, middle note, and bottom note that sounds good to you, and then pick up the rest of the necessary supplies.
I like the idea of using three oils together, because it hits all scent receptors and fades away magically over time, but there are no hard and fast rules to scent blending. Even two-scent blends are lovely: Rose-cypress, ylang-ylang-sweet orange, and lavender-clove are all amazing two-scent blends.
I'll repeat, deciding on your scents will be the hardest part of blending your own perfume. After that, it's all cake. (Aromaweb has a fantastic five-page tutorial on how to choose and blend scents, starting here.)
How to Create Your Solid Perfume
We're doing solid perfume only today, because it's easy, but also because it's effortlessly portable, the beeswax makes it last a long, long time, and there's just something so magically vintage about it.
Here's what you need:
- Beeswax
- Carrier oil (like jojoba, sweet almond, olive, or grapeseed)
- Essential oils of your choice
- A container suitable for solid perfume (like an old lip balm container – even if it's the "stick" variety!)
The rule of thumb is equal parts beeswax and carrier oil. I found that the typical lip balm container used about 2 tsp grated beeswax and 2 tsp carrier oil.
With that in mind, as you blend your scents, use about 40-45 drops of essential oil per 4 tsp solid perfume base.
Step 1: Blend Your Essential Oil
While you can blend as you make the solid perfume (which is how I did it and regretted it on occasion), it might be better to blend ahead of time.
In a very small container, measure out your essential oil blend and make sure you like the way it smells while it's concentrated (keeping in mind that it will mellow once you add it to the solid base).
So now that you have your blend, here's what's next.
Step 2: Melt the beeswax and oil
In a small double boiler (or makeshift double boiler), start the water heating on the bottom pot and drop your measured beeswax into the clean top pot.
When your beeswax is pretty much melted, add in the carrier oil and stir until everything is warm and liquid.
Step 3: Remove From Heat and Quickly Stir In Your Essential Oil(s)
You want to move fast here (which is why it's a great idea to blend your oils ahead of time), because this sets up and hardens like lightning.
If, for some reason, this hardens before your able to get it into your container, don't panic. Just put the bowl back on top of your double boiler and let it remelt. (Just don't leave it over the heat for too long, because you risk losing some essential oils to evaporation.)
Step 4: Pour Into Your Container and Watch It Harden
Carefully pour your homemade perfume mixture into your chosen container:
Within minutes, your perfume will set, and by about 10 minutes, it will be completely hardened, done, and ready for you to enjoy (or give as a gift).
Pretty easy, huh?
A Few Blend Ideas to Get You Started
As you can see, I made a kajillion solid perfumes, and each of them smell different (some of them I like more than others). Here are the ones I particularly liked, but I've run out of several essential oils I would have rather used. (Guess what my Christmas presents will be?)
Fresh and Kicky (Vetiver, Ginger, Grapefruit)
- 17 drops grapefruit essential oil
- 14 drops ginger essential oil
- 10 drops vetiver essential oil
Romantically Wistful (Rose, Lime, Vetiver)
- 25 drops rose essential oil
- 10 drops lime essential oil
- 10 drops vetiver essential oil
(I'm on a HUGE vetiver kick right now – it's so fresh and spicy and sort-of grassy and it makes my face smile really, really big)
Sensuously Deep (Ylang-Ylang, Sweet Orange, Cedarwood)
- 20 drops sweet orange essential oil
- 15 drops ylang-ylang essential oil
- 10 drops cedarwood (or sandalwood) essential oil
I also created a blend with bergamot, palmarosa, and vanilla. And one with jasmine, nutmeg, and something else. I seriously went crazy, and didn't document everything I blended (shame!), but my favorite might just be the one where I melted down amber resin and mixed it with ylang-ylang. SO MANY PERFUMES, so little time.
The important part: Experiment! Find your own special scent!
And, as always, if you need to know where to buy these things: Mountain Rose Herbs or iHerb (save $5 with code OZE706 there) are great places to start, if you don't want to buy at your natural foods store.
What Would Be Your Dream Perfume?
Do you already know what scents you'd want to use for a homemade solid perfume?
What are your favorite scents?
I'm curious to see how many of us like the same essential oils as scents we'd wear as perfume; plus, if I'm going to get new EOs for Christmas, I want to know which to choose (just in case I ever do a handmade perfume gift-giving thing here on the blog … I'm thinking about it!)
Oh! Wait. Speaking of which, Maggie set up a Gift Exchange in the Crunchy Community – check it out. Now you REALLY need to tell me your favorite scents here … just in case I draw you for the exchange!
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I just made my first solid perfume….so easy..I did the orange ylang ylang one…and I am pleased cant wait to start wearing it..also if you know of a recipe that would sort of smell like wild musk oil by cody….I would love to have it or if you could tell me which e. oils smell musky…thankx betty…love you site…i find my self visiting you page often! light & love, pam
yes.. I have used solid perfume. now i am finding more excellent perfume.
Do you have a recipe (ratio of essential oils/beeswax and almond oil) to make "large batches".? I'm wanting to make 10 one ounce containers at a time. Any help will be greatly appreciated
Hallo I had orchid oil,wen in Berlin Germany,a very small bottle,you needed one drop it smelled great,can't find it in USA,maby I make it soon,hm,very interesting
Do you need a perfume license or some type of license to sell the solid or liquid perfumes? I would love to start a small business to help support myself and my kids.
Please advise when you get a chance.
Thank you
Peggy, it would all depend on where you're selling it at, farmer's market, etc. I'm in MI and I know in WA if it contains alcohol in it you have to go through a liquor class & license to sell it. I have a friend that was making vanilla extract to sell among all the other items she was selling. I haven't started selling anything yet, just seeing what people like via friends & family and other parents' at my kids school. You'll just have to look into your states process to sell homemade goods like a business license. I hope this has helped.
do you need a business license to sell solid perfume? Tax EIN or something like this? I would like to create a small business with using solid perfumes.
Plz advise when you get a chance.
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this is a birthday present. and i wanted to know if you don't have beeswax what do you use?
Can't tell you how thankful I am to have found this. I made my first solid perfumes tonight with my Japanese cherry blossom, dark cherry, and gain scents. now I think i'll go crazy and make many more. awesome
I love this! Thanks for the instructions! I've been making my own fragrances for a while and didn't know it was was so easy to make solid ones. Awesome. :)
I'm making this into a spray perfume. Distilled water and essential oil!!! Easy peesy
Thanks. What means carrier oil?
I am planning to do a solid perfume just using Lavender oil
Thanks again,
My absolute favorite scent is this white tea perfume I got as a gift a year ago. And seeing as I am almost out, and it is ridiculously expensive, I have been on the search for a perfume like it that won't make my wallet cry. But I'm going to see if I can play around with this idea to make something like that amazing white tea perfume. Thanks for the idea!!
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Oh my, this is really great!
I'm so in love with the scent of GUCCI RUSH 2 perfume and I would like to make my own version of this using just pure natural oils but I don't know which oils to buy. Anyone's help would be much appreciated.
How do you bring it on on yourself?
Hi Betty!! I wanted to say thank you for the tutorial! I also wanted to share my blend with you!! It's slightly sweet, woodsy, and a little bit spicy!
5 drops Night Blooming Jasmine
5 drops Grapefruit
5 drops Lavender
5 drops Vetiver
5 drops Cedarwood
10 drops Rose
10 drops Rosewood
Thank you again! -Claire
Hi CB, and All!
Thank you so much for this post… I have blended essential oils for ages, as I make soap, but for some reason, (derrr!), I never thought to make scent for myself. I have drawers full of synthetic high-end scent that I never use. That comes from working in a pharmacy… and I don't use most of their products!
I softened my homemade non petroleum jelly, as per Jillee's recipe over at 'One Good Thing', added essential oils and Voila! a jar full of yummy goodness. I used patchouli, juniper berry, lemongrass, peppermint and lavender. It's just so me….. Thank You so Much!
I really like very few 'girly' scents, and often use my husband's colognes… there is a Bulgari one that is all herbs and clary sage that I love… I'll have to try getting close to that one!
Thanks again, CB!
Hi Jaya…do you find making the soaps dangerous? Do you get your supplies at a major craft store…Im looking into it but dealing with lye is a big scary..any recommendations?
It's about as scary as working with hot oil. Be as careful as when you're frying something, and you'll be fine.
I just had a few essential oils on hand, but ones I love. I used the following ( there aren't too many base notes, but some spicy middle to go with the subtle woody base):
Top notes: 5 grapefruit, 5 tangerine, 3 lavender, 2 peppermint
Middle: 4 nutmeg, 2 clove
Base: 4 cedar
Cedar is the only base note I have, but it sure does smell delicious! I just poured the wax/oil and the aroma made me want roll back and faint of heavenly loveliness.
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I would just like to say that I am concerned with essential oils being used for "perfume". Essential oils are to be studied and respected as to their special qualities.Many are not to be used by some folks at all.. ie peppermint by diabetics Most smell lovely but they do have medicinal properties and can have adverse affects.
Not too sure what to say here. Essential oils have been used to make perfumes for hundreds of years. Yes, some shouldn't be used on your skin because they can irritate, e.g. cinnamon. But you make it sound dangerous! And some of their "special qualities" include aromatherapy use to affect mood. Peppermint is often suggested for use by diabetics in foot creams to promote circulation (the tingling sensation from peppermint also increases blood flow).
Someone getting hold of a poisonous essential oil for perfume and eating it or something else crazy, well….there's something to be said for 'strengthening the gene pool'. Don't use EO's without research. Simple.
Your last statement is all I was saying . I just am not comfortable with the use of medicinal oils used carelessly.
Using essential oils for creating perfume isn't using them carelessly. Especially since the amount being used is so small. Now, what is careless, is INGESTING them without appropriate knowledge. But that is another topic.
I see both sides of this.
Chances are that Christian Dior Hypnotic Poison contains SOME real essential oils as well as synthetics. Then again, at $50 or more per bottle it may be the real thing that you pay and arm and a leg for because some EO is outrageously expensive for being from a superior species for fragrance and grown in low quantity.
There are also things sold as essential oils that turn out to be not quite natural. A look at packaging may give you a "blended fragrance with essential oil". What was it blended with? will the company tell you? How was it extracted? Were scary chemicals used that may still be in it? Is it technically edible when diluted, or adulterated by the processing into oil?
Then there is the herb itself. Roses naturally contain some cyanide. Now if you use them dried for tea, that means very little because there isn't enough concentration to be scary. On the other hand, a rose essential oil or absolute may have enough that it needs serious care when handled undiluted.
It's like any other end of home made beauty products. Spending some quality time learning more about ingredients can help a ton to keep things safe.
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Hello! I made the solid perfume and love the recipe. However, I found that the scent (the one in particular is Lavender) wears off very quickly, within a half hour. Is there any way to extend the life of the scent? Thanks!
your body absorbs the solid perfume quickly and i read a suggestion once that you can put it on the inside seam of your clothes (ie sleeve)and it will smell until you wash the garment. it could stain so you wouldn't want to put it on a part that will show.
If you don't want to put solid perfume on your clothes, you rub some into the ends of your hair on your head. Perfume is known to last much longer on hair than it is on skin. I massage solid perfume onto all of the ends of my strands of hair. The scent lasts noticeably longer than it does on my skin. Also, I don't just put solid perfume on my wrists and/or neck. I put it on my wrists, neck, tips of hair, in between my breast, behind my knees and the inner part of my elbows :)
I'd suggest you read the link provided in the post about using essential oils. Lavender is a 'top note' used in mixing perfumes and will always fade quickly after being applied. Sorry to disappoint.
Also, Grapeseed oil actually makes essential oils take longer to evaporate compared to other oils. You could try using Grapeseed. Or make an oil-based roller perfume using it.
Thanyou so much for your lovely perfume ideas. I would like to blend one like Princess Dianas BLUEBEll.BY Pengallion or something like that. Any ideas?
Hi – quick question, what type of containers do you use for these and do you have any suggestions for where to source them from?
I make all my beauty and hygiene products and I recycle empty mint or lip balm tins, glass spice bottles and the occasional plastic mustard bottle (good for my moisturizing body wash), but I will be making solid perfumes and lotion bars as gifts so I found Mountainroseherbs.com has all types of containers perfect for giving. I like the lip balm tubes for the solid perfume to keep in your pocket or purse. :D
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What? You "open a small perform shop"? What is a perform shop? Seems to have nothing to do with this article, so sorry if no one helped. It looks like you're opening a 'gym' type of business…this is about perfume, scents, E.O.'s, etc.
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I'm very sensitive to scents and have an extreme dislike for most on the market, so I've been blending my own for years. Today I was making wax tarts and decided to see if I could create a solid perfume, so I added grapeseed oil after pouring most of the wax mixture into a silicone ice cube tray. I wasn't sure about the oil-to-wax proportion (ha, I actually wasn't sure I was even MAKING a solid perfume) so I appreciate this tutorial. Also, I didn't have any handy containers so I poured mine into a rubber-sealed glass jar. The lip balm tube is genius! I don't know why I didn't think of it. Now I can just warm the mix up a little, pour it into the tube, and refill as needed. Brilliant! Thanks!
Oval lip balm tubes are best along with twist up lotion bar/deodorant tubes
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Hi MBE, you can tell that this is a self-hosted site because of the domain name "Crunchybetty.com" If it were hosted by wordpress there would be a "wordpress.com" extension at the end. If you're new, I suggest going with wordpress and learning the ropes of blogging before going with a self-hosted site. WordPress is very user friendly and offers lots of help for newbies to get started. Once you understand the process it should be pretty easy for you to transition to a self-hosted site if that will be better for your business. Hope this helps. :) Lorien
Hi MBE, after rereading your initial comment, I realized you were talking about the platform and not the host. It would appear that Crunchy Betty uses WordPress as her platform but is self-hosted. Have you started a blog yet? How is it going? :) Lorien
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This is great! :D
I'd made an oil-based perfume once, but found that it left stains, boo. :(
So I made a – rather messy – solid one. Admittedly no where near as neat as these ones but it smells good. :D
My new signature scent: Rose otto, jasmine EO, Patchouli EO, Ylang-ylang EO and maybe a wee drop rose geranium. :D
That sounds yummy! Last night I made Vetiver, Juniper, Neroli, and Lime, and there was the tiniest smidge of rose from a ridiculously expensive blend of rose and vetiver EO that I got from Floracopeia last year. Mine turned out messy too, because I was trying to scrape the residual beeswax out of the pan and into the tin, but oh well, I figure it will get easier and neater as time goes on. :) Lorien
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I am looking for a recipe on rose water solid perfumes. My wife loves CT&E rose water solid perfume. Unfortunately, it has discontinue. I would like to make one for her. But nnoticed that you use essential oil. So how do i get rose water into the beewax?
Hi Bernard, I would just get some pure rose essential oil and add some to the beeswax and carrier oil. Pure rose essential oil has a tendency to be quite expensive (like $100 for a dram), but your wife is worth it, right? :) Water and wax won't mix, so if you try to put the rose water into the blend you'll end up with wax floating on top of water, yuck. Go with the essential oil, and maybe you add some yummy scents, like neroli (orange blossom), sandalwood, vetiver, for example. But pure rose would also be beautiful. Hope this helps. Lorien
Thank you so much Lorien, don't mind me asking if carrier oil carries any scent? Which carrier can i use with rose essential oil
I made solid perfume tonight and it was very easy I am just a little worried because the base seems to hard. I followed the recipe you listed and I was just wondering if it is suppose to be hard or more oily??? Mine seem hard.
Hi Deanne, the beeswax cools and hardens, but as soon as you touch it, the warmth of your body will begin to melt it so that you can apply it to your pulse points as perfume. Hope this helps, Lorien
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THANK YOU! I made my first solid perfume last night as a going away present for a friend who is moving. Vetiver, Juniper, Neroli, and Lime. It was so fun to make, and I felt confident because your instructions and photographs were so clear. Thank you for taking the time to write this post. I plan on making lots more solid perfumes to bless all the scent-loving people in my life with, and I have you to thank for the inspiration! Thanks again! Lorien
I really love the lip balm tube idea. However I can't imagine how you would get the melted mixture in there without spilling it everywhere! Can any of you who have done this please give any tips for getting the mixture in the lip tube instead of all over the counter? Thanks!
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I love your pendants and I made a bunch this weekend. They came out absolutely awesome! I've had so much interest in them. But I do have a concern…do they melt when you wear them? Or is the beeswax enough to keep that from happening? Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for the recipe! I love perfumes and I'm excited to make my own solid. Just a question, where can I find beeswax?
would love to make my own perfume and solid perfume, two of my favorite perfumes have always been Poison and Opium, any ideas what essential oils I would use to create anything close to these? Love your ideas, can't wait to try some. Thank you.
Hi! i was wondering what size lib balm container you recommend using? 15ml or 30ml? larger?
I plan on using 15ml, but I'm not sure how they will turn out yet…
But that would take about 1tsp beeswax, 1tsp carrier oil, and about 20 drops essential oils. So we will see!
I'm thinking about making a salty chocolate scent. I'm wondering if I can find some really good, fresh sea salt and add it to the solid perfume as it is hardening to get a little kick in there of the salt. However – there is absolutely NOWHERE online that says anything about this.
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An interview with Aja and Ty:
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After being picked by The Amazing Race producers based on their Facebook profiles, Aja and Ty set off on a race around the world, but were eliminated Sunday, leaving just six teams competing for the $1 million prize. The spunky, long-distance daters Aja (from Los Angeles) and Ty (from Detroit) always seemed to be struggling to keep up especially on their final leg, when they ended up on a late flight from Auckland to Cambodia, leaving them with virtually no chance. Their airy relationship and pleasant demeanor may have tuned some drama-loving viewers out, but they made friends on the show. Dallas was a great guy, Aja says. Talking to PEOPLE after their elimination episode, the couple say that they still love each other despite bumpy moments, reveal what you didnt see on TV and fill us in on whats next for them. Why cant I be Brad Pitt? Ty asks. Nicholas White
What did you learn about each other during the Race?
Ty: Aja is not as competitive as I would have liked. But I think it gives me good balance. You find yourself stressed out a lot and you need that person to be able to calm you down. She was able to do that.
Aja: I enjoyed it. It was difficult for me at times. He was able to run fast and harder than I could. He was able to handle the bags on our backs a lot better than I could, which is why he ended up carrying mine sometimes. Ive never really been athletic.
Hows your relationship now? Ty, you moved to L.A.?
Ty: It had its bumpy moments. I dont know any relationship or anybody that wouldnt have their small hiccups following the Race. But were doing really well.
Aja: He moved to L.A. right after the Race. Leaving Detroit for a month, to be able to see something else, and travel around the world together, he didnt have too much of a desire to go back. I dont know that we will stay living together. One of his best friends [is] moving to L.A., so we might be separated in a couple of months. Not to end the relationship, but to just live separately. I already had a roommate before he moved. Its different. Even though she knows him, Im sure theres part of her that misses walking around in her underwear.
What would you like to do in L.A.?
Aja: He came back here and took some great pictures. This guy should be a model. I dont know what hes waiting on.
Ty: This is probably the only reality show Id want to do, outside of Survivor. If things are presented to me, whether it be acting, modeling, [or] hosting, Id be a fool to say I dont want to be a part of it.
Aja: Hes looking into signing a print agent. Hes not one of those people who is like, Im going to be the next big star. I feel like some people after they get done with reality TV, they think they are going to be the next Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt.
Ty: Why cant I be Brad Pitt?
Aja: Im not saying you cant be Brad Pitt, babe. You and he look exactly alike.
Which remaining teams were your favorite and least favorite?
Ty: Nobody rubbed me the wrong way, other than Starr. Nothing personal, it was in the context of the Race. My favorites have to be Terence and Sarah, and Dallas and Toni. I love Kenny.
Aja: I like Kenny too. I didnt especially care for Tina. She was a little manipulative and fake. At every Pit Stop, she came up to me and rubbed [my] back, and [said] How did you do? Youre like, What is this lady doing? Were not friends. Kelly and Christy were my girls. I really like Terence and Sarah, for the most part. I didnt like Nick and Starr. Their energy was hot. I like Dallas and Toni a lot. Dallas was a great guy.
What didnt we see on the show?
Ty: [When] we got a flat tire, we also got pulled over that day. It was a series of things that derailed our momentum.
Aja: They also didnt show that Dallas stopped to help us with a flat tire for a few minutes. That said a lot about his character. It should have been shown.
Ty: He also did that for Terrence and Sarah on a previous episode. They didnt show us in the beginning because we werent bickering. We were having fun and enjoying the ride. Once we started to bicker, thats when we started to get more airtime.
Why did you get pulled over?
Ty: We got off the plane at 3 a.m. Ill take full responsibility for this. Naturally, you want to be on the other side of the road. I was driving on the wrong side of the road.
Aja: I told you to turn last minute, too. I take partial responsibility.
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I'm going to Miss Aja & Ty
one of my fav racers i wish them well
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Looks like Ty has a film career!
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This light-comedy, light-horror, suspenseful film ponders the question, Would you kill for $1,000,000? Little do our Reality Stars know that this night might be considered a scam, a scam for their lives.
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Cataclysm is still several weeks away, and for most of us, raid content is yet more weeks beyond that. But it's never too soon to start drooling over new gear, and what's more deserving of our drool than our very first raid set of Cataclysm?
The hunter tier 11 Lightning-Charged set gets us off to a killer start in Cataclysm with very nice and useful set bonuses right out of the gate. Of course, the set looks like you're wearing a skinned murloc, but whether that's a bad thing or a moment of sublime joy depends on your personal taste and history with murlocs. Personally, I'm happy to be wearing their hollowed-out head. Glrgl-murfl this, ya bastards.
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May 15, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
Last week, the Times recognized a new trend in vigilantism: do-it-yourself iPhone recovery. When someone finds his phone stolen, he uses the phone's GPS to locate the thief; the resulting confrontations usually end peacefully, with the phone restored to its rightful owner and the thief shuffling off into the night, cowed and shamed. In one especially rousing case, a man rustled up the thief using OkCupid:
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When the thief arrived with a bottle of wine, expecting to meet "Jennifer," Mr. Nirenberg went up behind him, hammer at his side. He slapped a $20 bill on the thief, to mollify him and compensate him for his time and wine, and demanded the phone. The thief handed it over and slunk away.
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Versteeg put the Panthers ahead in the second period with his fifth goal in four meetings against New Jersey this season, sending Florida to a 3-1 win over the Devils at the Prudential Center.
Former Devils backup goaltender Scott Clemmensen got the better of his former teammate, Martin Brodeur, stopping 27 shots in Florida's second straight win. Sean Bergenheim also scored and Mikael Samuelsson added an empty-net goal in the victory.
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The buskers' life: The street's their stage, our attention their reward
It's a free show, every day. All we have to do is take the headphones out of our ears for a minute, stop, watch and listen.
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KATE IS 9 years old, and she's wondering how she ever got herself into this mess.
Be a busker, her violin teacher told her; it's good experience. So here she is, about to make her debut. At Seattle Center, during Folklife, the city's crazy, colorful celebration of sound and eccentricity.
She opens her small, black violin case and sets it in front of her, in anticipation of quarters she hopes will be tossed inside. Tentatively, she raises her bow, takes a deep breath, nods to her mom and begins to play.
On the other side of the Center, away from the bustle of the festival, a 48-year-old man arrives for work. Eido — that's his full name, he'll show you his Washington ID to prove it — is an artist and musician. He plays his electric guitar most days at the same spot in the shadow of the Space Needle.
Eido lives in a tent with his cat, maintaining a "homeless lifestyle," he says, so he can concentrate on his art. Nearly 1,100 of his paintings and drawings and 10 albums worth of songs are cataloged on his website.
"I have people say to me, 'Why don't you get a real job?' " he says. "I think I have a real job."
People hustle past as he plays, most keeping their distance on the wide walkway. A few sit on benches close enough to hear him but far enough away they can pretend not to. On a good day, Eido will make 50 bucks. The longest he'll play is five hours.
"That's the max," he says. "After that, everything goes — the fingers, the brain. Then I just go home. And hope it isn't wet."
Young, old and in between, buskers like Kate and Eido are everywhere in Seattle.
Lucky for us.
They bravely brighten our days by singing, playing their guitars, trombones and accordions, performing magic tricks and puppet shows, making balloons for our kids. Some are professional musicians, others have 9-to-5 jobs and just want a chance to play weekends at neighborhood farmers markets.
It's a free show, every day. All we have to do is take the headphones out of our ears for a minute, stop, watch and listen.
YOU CAN'T SWING an old hippie by the ponytail without hitting a busker at Pike Place Market, Seattle's daily carnival of street performers.
Talented musicians — and a few not-so-talented — play every day at the Market, sharing space with local shoppers, cruise-ship tourists, and food and craft vendors.
But it's not quite the chaotic free-for-all you might think.
Whitney Mongé is an accomplished 26-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist who moved here from Spokane six years ago to pursue her music career. She might just be good enough to follow Brandi Carlile's path from Market busker to pop star.
Mongé, her tattooed arms poking out of a gray sweatshirt, is playing a one-hour set of original songs and covers. As she sings her final tune, the old Creedence Clearwater Revival classic "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" a peculiar-looking little man wearing a funny hat and holding a ukulele stands patiently a few feet behind her.
The song shows off Mongé's soulful voice, her confident guitar playing and a natural charisma. She strums the final chords and is greeted by ... nothing, really, just the sounds of shoppers shuffling past, looking for good deals on purses and rhubarb.
The man with the ukulele, Howlin' Hobbit, a 28-year Market veteran, steps up to the spot Mongé has vacated and sums things up nicely. "Busking: It's not for wimps."
Mongé, then Hobbit, play at one of the 15 approved spots for busking at the Market. Each of the locations is marked with a red musical note painted on the ground, and a number (1 to 4) for the number of performers allowed at the spot. Three spots are particularly sweet — at the North Arcade entrance, where Mongé and Hobbit are playing on this day; at the main entrance under the clock; and on the street in front of Starbucks.
Market buskers pay $30 for an annual performer's permit. Last year, the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority issued 400 of them. There's no audition, just some paperwork to fill out and an agreement to play by the rules: no brass instruments, no amplification, for instance. Performers each get an hour; they can also sell their CDs here. For the most part, the buskers do a nice job of policing themselves. There's an annual, public review process to discuss potential changes to the guidelines.
Market managers don't ask the buskers how much money they make; that's their business.
After Mongé finishes playing, she makes way for Howlin' Hobbit and is greeted by an enthusiastic young woman who asks her if she has anything for $5. Mongé tells her she has a nine-song CD for $10, a five-song CD for $5. The woman says she has only $5 and hands it over for the last five-song CD in Mongé's case.
"Girl," she gushes, "if I had 10 dollars, I'd give it to you."
"YOU NAME IT, it's been done here," says David Dickinson, the Market's daystall- and craft-program manager.
Gary Reid is a left-handed guitarist with a prosthetic left leg who drives from Tacoma five or six days a week to sing songs for Jesus and Market visitors.
"I sing good-news music," he says. "The best part of my day is when someone says, 'That's my favorite song.' I don't do breakup songs. I don't do drinking songs. That's just me. But you get everything here. There's a guy who specializes in Southern murder ballads."
Reid arrived at 8 a.m. to sign up for the coveted 10 a.m. spot by Rachel the Pig, near the main entrance. He'll play three or four one-hour sets most days.
He engages a group of young kids, who happily sing along to "Yellow Submarine." On one side, the fish throwers are doing their thing. On the other, two middle-aged women are taking pictures of vegetables as one says to the other, "Can you believe how big their corn is?"
It's a constant battle for attention. Reid, who has been busking at the Market for nearly two years, makes a living at it. He says you've got to keep on top of schedules: when the cruise ships are in, what days the Sounders play. In the slower winter, he says, "you're just scraping by," trying to make the money earned during the summer stretch.
After he wraps up his first set, Reid estimates 75 people took pictures of him. Most didn't tip; still, he says, playing in a prime spot, "it was a good first hour."
In a quieter location, in Post Alley, Rosalynn De Roos, on clarinet, and Stuart Zobel, playing a seven-string acoustic guitar, perform Brazilian music from the 1920s and '30s. They play in a Brazilian jazz band, ChoroLoco, and decided to busk this year because it's good practice. They're not doing it for the money, or the attention, that's for sure.
As they play, diners seated at restaurants across the alley talk and eat. After one song, a man looks up from his taco, and claps. Occasionally, someone walking by will pitch a dollar bill or a few coins into the musicians' cases. Few people stop.
It's a little trickier for the listener here than in the crowded, noisier spots in the Market or on the street, where groups often gather around the performer. Here, you can't really blend into the background. What's a fan of good Brazilian music to do? So many questions.
Is it OK for me to stand right in front of a busker as they play? (Yes.) Can I talk to the busker? (Sure, but don't monopolize their time; they're working, after all.) Should I applaud after a song? (Go ahead, if you liked it.) Can I take a photo? (Yes, but asking permission is nice, and tipping is even nicer.) Speaking of tipping, do I have to? (Well, no, but it'd be a lot cooler if you did.)
Jonny Hahn is one of the Market's stars. He's been playing for 27 years, wheeling his 64-key piano to the corner of Pine Street and Pike Place five days a week, sometimes six. He writes political songs and instrumentals, blending about every style of music there is into something truly original.
In recent years, he has noticed a change in the audience that listens to him while they enjoy the yummy smells wafting from the Cinnamon Works bakery next door.
"Since the explosion of the digital paradigm and reality TV, there has been a dramatic shift in the collective attention span in society," he says. "It just seems to take more to compel people to be interested."
And don't even get him started on cellphone cameras.
"Because everybody has a camera phone now, the most minute thing is something to take a picture of and post on their Facebook page," he says.
Hahn thinks taking photos has diminished the relationship between busker and audience, dehumanizing the connection. Now, he says, he's just another object to be photographed.
NOT ALL OF the action is at Pike Place Market. Buskers play at farmers markets, near the city's universities and colleges, in front of upscale grocery stores, downtown, in Ballard and Fremont, Ravenna and Capitol Hill. Even in the suburbs.
Festivals like Folklife and Bumbershoot give buskers a chance to play for huge crowds.
Artis the Spoonman, who has been busking in Seattle and all over the world for 40 years, played at Folklife this spring. It was a rare stage set for Artis, who combined philosophy, poetry, original songs and a little spoon playing in an entertaining half-hour show, performing as Toothless Jake.
Afterward, he shook hands with fans, hugged old friends, sold CDs, DVDs. And talked busking.
Artis, now 64 and living in Port Townsend, used to play 300 shows annually but estimates he's done fewer than 20 in the past year. He's played with Aerosmith, Frank Zappa, the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra and, of course, Soundgarden, which immortalized him in the 1994 song "Spoonman."
"I've had some sweet gigs, but a lot of them didn't pay," he says.
What did pay — sometimes well, usually not — was busking.
"It's probably the most difficult form of entertainment there is," he says. "To be successful, you've got to entertain people. It doesn't matter what you're doing; I played spoons and got away with it."
Artis says there have been more $100 tips than he can remember, and a fan gave him $2,000 once at the Oregon Country Fair. But days like that were the exception. He says he lived outside for 20 years.
As Artis tells stories, buskers nearby carry on the tradition. Magicians. Jugglers. Mimes. Bluegrass pickers and tuba players.
Says Artis, "It's the purest, most honorable form of music there is."
SEATTLE'S STREET performers owe a debt to Jim Page, the godfather of Seattle busking, a 63-year-old troubadour and political activist who fought City Hall and won in 1974.
Page, who had moved to Seattle from California three years earlier, was strumming his guitar and singing near the Market when a motorcycle cop told him to stop playing.
"He asked me if I had a permit," Page recalls. "I said I didn't. He told me I couldn't play unless I had one. I told him I'd get one.
"He said, 'You can't, you're not blind,' and rode off."
Buskers had been working the Market since the 1960s, but not without being hassled. According to Seattle law at the time, you couldn't busk if you didn't have a permit. And you couldn't get a permit unless you were handicapped.
Page stirred up media interest and took his case to the City Council and the mayor. After talking his way onto the agenda for a council meeting, he plastered posters around town advertising a free Jim Page concert at City Hall. He sang his protest at a packed council meeting, a song he wrote for the occasion titled "Now's the Time For Talking," and persuaded the city to change the law. Buskers were free to busk. Later, the Market developed its system of permits and rules.
(Another legal battle was fought at Seattle Center, where the city claimed buskers were vendors and couldn't play without permits. Balloon artist "Magic Mike" Berger eventually won that lengthy case, in 2009, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the city's attempts to regulate buskers at the Center violated free speech and were unconstitutional. Buskers can play at Seattle Center, but cannot sell products.)
Page doesn't play the Market much now, preferring festivals, coffee shops and farmers markets. But he has a performer's permit again this year and was at a spot on the street recently, expertly playing his Martin guitar, singing his original songs.
Between singing and greeting fans, Page described a busker's role at the Market, working with store owners and vendors, trying to draw a crowd but not stopping traffic, being a good neighbor, avoiding doorways.
"That's part of the adventure of busking, living in the cracks," he says. "But there's beauty in the cracks. There are beautiful places to celebrate. You can make theater out of the cracks."
Page offers this advice for young buskers, in kind of a Woody Guthrie meets Mr. Miyagi style:
"Don't expect too much, but don't expect too little. It is what it is, it will do what it will do."
He says there will be days you'll make $100, other days you'll make nothing.
"These people are passing by in the middle of their lives, and they didn't expect you to be there," he says. "Don't take anything personally. And don't do it for the money."
SO HOW DID Kate, our rookie busker, do at Folklife?
She played like you'd expect a nervous 9-year-old to play, missing a few notes here and there. But she gained confidence and seemed to enjoy the experience. She thanked those who contributed a total of $16.32 during her 45-minute set.
Really, I thought it went pretty well. I might be biased, though, being her dad.
I asked her, as she packed up, what she thought of busking.
"It's fun," she said. "And scary."
Yeah, that's about the size of it. Let's go get an elephant ear.
Bill Reader is The Seattle Times deputy sports editor. Alan Berner is a Times staff photographer.
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