#chandlery

La Corsetería La Latina, en la calle de Toledo 49 está especializada en tallas grandes e incluso supergrandes. Fue abierta en 1925 y entonces no existía la corsetería como tal, sino que se trataba de un variado almacén donde se vendía de todo. Más tarde, enfocaron el negocio hacia la venta de tallas grandes: fajas, sujetadores, trajes de baño, batas…Todo un acierto, pues a la tienda acude gente…

I hate hands   I love hands Hands.

I hate hands Hands pull: pull triggers, pull wool over eyes, pull teeth I hate hands Hands are people’s tools for violence Hands are people’s tools for violence Hands are tools.

I hate hands Hands slide, hands seek, hands grab and hands grasp with greed Hands slide, hands seek, hands grab and hands grasp with greed soothe. Hands soothe.

I hate hands Hands are channels of ill will, avenues of vice Hands are channels of ill will, avenues of vice Hands are channels.

I hate hands I love hands Hands can heal. Hands are beautiful. Ribbon rippley, solidly sturdy, Calloused, or Soft.

Warm hands, cooling hands. Compressing hands, Feathering hands, Enveloping hands.

Some things I know, some things I don’t know, and some things I just found out today. When I went for a walk today I headed south along the waterfront and quite soon saw something that captured my imagination. Someone had outlined an area of rough ground with a rectangle of feathers. It is beside a disused rail dock and there is very little foot traffic here. I wondered who had done this and…

today, it’s the last of the trees, the one which struck me as the most odd (and therefore the most intriguing!) on the testers, plus a bonus sample I couldn’t figure out at all when I put it on paper—after all those trees, it was much milder and mellower, and I guessed at “beeswax?” mostly from the name.

oxylus, on the left, has a note list of pine needles, juniper scales, vetiver, myrtle, soil, swamp water. chandlery, or so says someone on reddit who asked the perfumer, has notes of lavender, vetiver, benzoin, anise, champaca, tuberose, and yes, beeswax.

oxylus is another one that’s staining my forearm green, and on skin, as on my little paper scrap, it’s rather nice. the pineward shop site uses the word “riparian,” and sure, I can go with that; a sharp initial rush of sap, followed by a darker vetiver bloom.

Cerería Ortega está situada en el mismo lugar desde aproximadamente el año 1860 y desde 1893 sigue regentada por la Familia Ortega. Siendo el primero de la familia Don Victoriano Ortega, quien tras fallecer el propietario inicial Don Juan Pérez Lozoya, siguió con la Cerería y que actualmente una cuarta generación prosigue con la fabricación de velas artesanales tal y como comenzó.  En Semana…