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Spring gave us a tease today

rouge
Feb 21, 2009
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Give me the splendid silent sun
  with all his beams full-dazzling.

Walt Whitman

NEW from rouge aromatics!

rouge
Dec 2, 2008
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Wash me

WASH ME

herbal foaming facial wash

a castille soap base with a tea of beneficial herbs for the skin!

all natural, handmade, and aromatic

no parabens, sls, or synthetic fragrances

$8.00

www.rougearomatics.com

in Seattle you can find rouge aromatics products at the Bouncing Wall on Queen Anne www.bouncingwall.com

Hensley's Alaska 08

Lori
Jul 20, 2008
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Hensley hiking with the bugs - Halibut Cove

Chris catching his first red ever at the Russian

Sally and Tony at Independence Mine - Hatcher's Pass

the Hensley's finally made it after 10 years of being in AK. Here are a few photos.

Tony's first red of the year at the Russian

Tony on the viking - Captain Liska's boat

Lori and Keenan on top of butte - Pioneer Peak

sally on the butte with knik glacier in background

My Scent Collection Wordled by wordle.net

rouge
Jul 12, 2008
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wordle

We have been really sunshine deprived here in Seattle...but it broke through the clouds this evening so I was inspired to take some shots of some of my awesome plants! The garden is filling in nice this year even though the sun has been hiding.

rouge aromatics featured on seattlepicks.com

rouge
Jun 8, 2008
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A Relaxing Aroma

Last week on a flight to Chicago, we encountered some nasty turbulence. Sitting white-knuckled in our seat, we thought of the Calm Me aromatic balm from Rouge Aromatics in our handbag.

We opened the drawstring muslin bag it came in, applied the all-natural and organic balm (created by a certified aromatherapist) to our pulse points, and as we breathed in the ylang-ylang and mandarin scent, we felt our vise-like grip on the seat slowly easing. Sweet relief.

http://www.seattlepicks.com/newsletter/0058.php

rouge aromatics featured in a NW Source Daily Find article

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May 11, 2008
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Rouge Aromatics
Created by certified aromatherapist and former floral designer Kari Morford, Rouge Aromatics is an exquisite, handcrafted skin-care line. Morford has created a line of aromatic balms ($9 each) meant to soothe, heal, pamper and relieve bruised, scraped and otherwise bothered skin. Rouge offers unique products like the Cleanse Me herbal facial cleansing powder ($12), which, when mixed with water or plain yogurt, makes a soap-free cleanser that nourishes the skin. My favorite product from this line is the decadent, rejuvenating, good-to-the-last-drop Rose Me facial elixir ($14) with rosehip seed oil and pure rose essential oil from France. Rouge Aromatics products are available at Bouncing Wall in Queen Anne and online at the shopping site Etsy

By Alison Brownrigg

Thanks Alison!!

link to whole article

hiking on the mat-su

Lori
Apr 6, 2008
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Went hiking the other day on the mat-su river bed. Here are a few photos.

Visiting family

Lori
Apr 6, 2008
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We went to visit the Berrigan/Thompson/Gagan side of the family in the UP over Easter. Not a lot of pictures, but a few. Keenan kept us all busy. No pictures of Sue and Tim's new house, but the house is looking great. It was nice to see the farm with snow, something new for me. Please share with Grandpa when possible.

Junior North American Sled Dog Championships- Fairbanks, Alaska

Lori
Mar 5, 2008
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I ventured out of town with the 3 kids and Larisa Myers and her son Jonathan. We left late Thursday night (Feb 28th) and had a great trip up. We saw 3 different shows of northern lights with movement and color (pinks and greens and blues). We also saw Caribou on the side of the road in Cantwell. Right on the side of the road.

We arrived in Fairbanks @ 3 am Friday morning and were not able to get into the place we were planning on staying. After a little nap in the car, we headed to a hotel and stayed there for the next 2 nights. The race was a 3 day race that started on Friday. Aila won 1st place each day. She ran Lego, one of Larisa's dogs. As Aiila said. "my dog ran really fast". Rya received 5th place overall. On the first day her dogs took a wrong turn and she lost a few minutes. On the 2nd day she got 3rd place and and on the 3rd day she fell off the sled at a turn. Someone caught her dogs and she jumped back on. I think after the first day she was hoping for the red lantern, but after all of that she was still not in last place. As she crossed the finish line on the last day (March 2nd), the announcers and everyone sang her happy birthday. Rya did receive the sportsmanship award as she was able to stop her dogs and set her ice hook on the first day when the dogs took a wrong turn.

Rya, Jonathan and Larisa at Rya's start - Day 1

Here is a link to an article in the Fairbanks paper about the girls and the Little-Su 4-H club.

http://newsminer.com/news/2008/mar/03/young-erhart-leads-way-junior-mushers/

As for jonathan, he had a heck of a time. He has lost a few leaders this year due to injury. He was trying different dog configurations as he is currently heading down the Alaskan highway to Yellowknife Canada for the Arctic Winter Games. We wish him luck.

The first day started with his dogs fighting as he headed out of the start gate. After moving dogs around and heading down the trail, his new $2000 sled broke. The piece that broke is a critical piece for steering the sled. The 2nd day was a little rough as well as his new dog configuration still was having a hard time heading out of the shoot and he was on a borrowed sled. However, some place in the trail he switched dogs around again and came back happy as he felt he had found a new leader.

On the 3rd day, on his sled again that was fixed wit the aide of Tom (the husband of my friend Wendy), Jonathan headed out. It took a moment to get the dogs going as his new lead dog is still very young and not quite sure how this all works. But before he hit the trees (the trail heads in to the trees), the other side of the bar that broke the first day broke. Larisa was a little nervous as it took Jonathan a long time to get back. We finally realized we he got back that he had to ride the brake a lot as he had not steering control again.

Glad this all happened in Fairbanks. We are rooting for him to have all the bugs worked out in yellowknife.

I also want to say a big thanks to my friends Wendy and Holly. Also to Wendy's daughter Jennifer and Wendy's husband Tom. Wendy cooked dinner for us on Saturday night. Holly brought the salad, wine and birthday pie for Rya. Wendy and Holly also got Rya a necklace (made by Holly's friend) that has a musher and 2 dogs. The crossbow of the sled in real gold. Rya loves it. Tom and Wendy also let us drop the dogs in their driveway after I locked the keys in Larisa's truck. This turned out to be not such a bad thing as there was a lot of wind in Fairbanks and their house seemed to be out of the wind. It was actually quite pleasant feeding the dogs in their yard while we waited for AAA.

I also want to Thank Wendy and her daughter Jennifer for coming to the races Saturday and watching Keenan so I could help with the dogs. And another Thank you to Wendy and Holly for coming Sunday to watch the races and help with Keenan again. This allowed me to help with the dogs and getting the kids to the start line.

Here are a few photos I took. There are also some professional photos that I will post once I get them.