My Balcony

Age four on Malyovitza peak 2,729m high

Namaste!
My name is Eliza and I am living in Berlin, Germany. This is my space where I want to share personal stories from my kitchen. It is kind of a women circle, but it does not exclude man and children. They are all very much welcomed to join.

Year ago I started creating home made beauty and care essentials. Cruelty free and plastic free was the initiation for me to learn mixing my first tooth-paste and deodorant cream. Recycling the same jars, adding my favorite essential oils and this all in the presence of my dear friends became a ritual. I cannot imagine now the easy life of just going to buy some product from the shop. This ritual in making belongs to old traditions dating back who knows, probably from the times when there was no electricity and people gathered in a circle. My Bulgarian grandmother would tell me how they would stitch, knit and sing around the fire. There will be the boys, sometimes trying to catch their attention. This was village evening gathering and of course it eventually this ritual ended after the tv, internet and mobilized life took its own therms.

Zen Spirit & Enso, Zen Circles. Enso is a Japanese word meaning "circle" and
a concept strongly associated with Zen. It symbolizes the Absolute, enlightenment,
strength, elegance, the Universe, and the void; it can also symbolize the Japanese aesthetic itself.

But there is something special about those times, the intimacy, the sharing, the closeness of the people, which I would like to preserve. Nowadays one can become part of any "do it yourself" workshop and undertake any course here in the big city. This has given many possibilities to the people to learn crafts. I hope this crafts would be preserved, because no matter how the technology evolution effect us, nothing could be compared to the human  hand touch. To drink from a mug you made yourself, to wear pullover your mother knitted, to write on notebook your friend bind for you and to build your own home environment the way you see it with things you love, this is how we preserve this fire. I believe that technological revolution can help us on many other levels and with things that have great value for the humanity. Technology can help us expand our vision, travel faster, cure incurable disease and hopefully to protect the planet, but not to take away our crafts and jobs. Personally I believe everyone is born an artist and just like every tribe had own signature, we can preserve our own regional needs and marks. I have always been big fan of people who build their own homes using recycled materials such as tires, glass bottles, plastic bags etc. The tin can toy African and south american kids sell are far more precious, than any design label who maybe uses higher quality materials and sells for hundreds using the imaginations of this tribes. I am strongly for the preserving of those symbols of handcraft, because they are the symbols of nature carried through the generations.

These symbols had mutilated through the ages and some people has used them to create manipulations. With this symbols I mean from real symbols like the "swastika", which was widely used since thousands of years around the world symbolizing our original force, our galaxy, the swirl of life, our Milky Way. Same with the "cross" which became symbol of Christianity, but it was originally the four directions South, East, North and West. It is widely used in all traditions around the world. As symbols I categorize also the herbs, which were widely used for medicinal reasons and purposely by the pharmaceutical industry were overtaken by man-made chemical compounds. Nothing wrong in mane-made medicine, just that when person is educated to give himself to the doctor and not know how to help himself with available free in nature supplements, then we are taking the power from the people. Every Grandma still can teach her children on how to make herbal teas against cold and what to take when sore. This are just vague samples. I can go on, on how many things are taken away from us and left us almost helpless and dependable on all the industries. I know we are busy to do our professions and be proficient in only one thing, but if we would have preserved our gifts to create, would we allow someone to cut the forest so they can make soy grow or chairs for the rich? Would we want to dig all the gold from the Earth to make phones that keep our minds busy with things that often irrelevant.

I did not mean to sound too philosophical, but I had to express my views, because they touch very much the point of writing this blog. I am here, just like many people to share my own experience in the making of my own beauty creations. But the difference here is here not to present perfect pictures, with perfectly arranged ingredients and sets. The difference is I am not trying anything, but just being me and being present. The name CREAM BAR CIRCLE talks itself.


CREAM

cream (n.)

• early 14c., creyme, "the rich and buttery part of milk," from Old French cresme, craime, creme "chrism, holy oil" (13c., Modern French crème). This word is a blend of Late Latin chrisma "ointment" (from Greek khrisma "unguent;" from PIE root *ghrei- "to rub") and Late Latin cramum "cream," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Gaulish. The French word replaced Old English ream; it was re-borrowed 19c. as creme.
• From early 15c. as "dish or confection made from or resembling cream." The figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" is from 1580s. It is attested from 1660s as "any part that separates from the rest and rises to the surface" and also in its application to substances resembling cream. Cream-cheese is from 1580s. Cream-soda is attested by from 1854. Cream-colored (also cream-coloured) "having the pale, yellowish-white color of cream," is from 1707.

cream (v.)

• mid-15c., "to foam, to froth," from cream (n.). From 1610s in figurative sense of "remove the best part of." Meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. slang; the exact sense connection is unclear. There was a slang cream (v.) in the 1920s that meant "cheat, deceive, especially by guile." Related: Creamed; creaming.

Share and support is care the rich cream "most excellent part" of our meetings. Cream is made of milk, which comes from the holly cow's tit and connects all humans through the milking process.

My Balcony, 2015

BAR

bar (n.1)

• late 12c., "stake or rod of iron used to fasten a door or gate," from Old French barre "beam, bar, gate, barrier" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *barra "bar, barrier," which some suggest is from Gaulish *barros "the bushy end" [Gamillscheg, etc.], but OED regards this as "discredited" because it "in no way suits the sense."
• General sense of "anything which obstructs, hinders, or impedes" is from 1530s. Of soap, by 1833; of candy, by 1906 (the process itself dates to the 1840s), both from resemblance of shape. Meaning "bank of sand across a harbor or river mouth" is from 1580s, probably so called because it was an obstruction to navigation. Bar graph is attested from 1925. Bar code first recorded 1963. Behind bars "in prison" is attested by 1934, American English. Welsh bar "a bar, rail," Irish barra "a bar, spike" are said to be from English; German Barre, Danish barre, Russian barŭ are from Medieval Latin or Romanic.

bar (n.2)

• "tavern," 1590s, so called in reference to the bars of the barrier or counter over which drinks or food were served to customers (see bar (n.1))

bar (n.3)

• "whole body of lawyers, the legal profession," 1550s, a sense which derives ultimately from the railing that separated benchers from the hall in the Inns of Court (see bar (n.1)). Students who had attained a certain standing were "called" to it to take part in the important exercises of the house. After c. 1600, however, this was popularly assumed to mean the bar in a courtroom, the wooden railing marking off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners stood for arraignment and where a barrister (q.v.) stood to plead. As the place where the business of court was done, bar in this sense had become synonymous with court by early 14c

bar (n.4)

• unit of pressure, coined 1903 from Greek baros "weight," which is related to barys "heavy," from PIE root *gwere- (1) "heavy."

bar (v.)

• c. 1300, "to fasten (a gate, etc.) with a bar," from bar (n.1); sense of "to obstruct, prevent" is recorded by 1570s. Expression bar none "without exception" is recorded from 1866.

Bar is this womanhood court where we sit to discuss the currents while preparing bars of soap, lotion or lip salve. I care for us humans and all the nature and animal kingdoms. I care for the precious stones and what I leave behind me as a human. There is much to learn and explore and I welcome everyone to participate. This is an open circle and there are no limits, only understanding.

Sweet memo of me and one of Grandma's tomatoes, Bulgaria 2016.

CIRCLE

circle (n.)

• c. 1300, "figure of a circle, a plane figure whose periphery is everywhere equidistant from its center point," from Old French cercle "circle, ring (for the finger); hoop of a helmet or barrel" (12c.), from Latin circulus "circular figure; small ring, hoop; circular orbit" (also source of Italian cerchio), diminutive of circus "ring" (see circus).
• Replaced Old English trendel and hring. Late Old English used circul, from Latin, but only in an astronomical sense. Also used of things felt to be analogous to a circle: The meaning "group of persons surrounding a center of interest" is from 1714 (it also was a secondary sense of Latin circulus); that of "coterie" is from 1640s (a sense also found in Latin circulus).
• To come full circle is in Shakespeare. Sense in logic, "inconclusive argument in which unproved statements are used to prove each other" is from 1640s. Meaning "dark mark around or beneath the eyes" is from 1848.

circle (v.)

• late 14c., cerclen, "to shape like a globe," also "to encompass or surround with a circle," from circle (n.). From c. 1400 as "to set in a circular pattern;" mid-15c. as "to move round in a circle." Related: Circled; circling. To circle the wagons, figuratively, "assume an alert defensive stance" is from 1969, from old Western movies.

Arctic Circle

• 1550s in astronomy, in reference to a celestial circle, a line around the sky which, in any location, bounds the stars which are ever-visible from that latitude (in the Northern Hemisphere its center point is the celestial north pole); the concept goes back to the ancient Greeks, for whom this set of constellations included most prominently the two bears (arktoi), hence the name for the circle (see arctic).
• In geography, from 1620s as "the circle roughly 66 degrees 32 minutes north of the equator" (based on obliquity of the ecliptic of 23 degrees 28 minutes), marking the southern extremity of the polar day, when the sun at least theoretically passes the north point without setting on at least one summer day and does not rise on at least one winter one.

Here we will test ready recipes, we shall try new things, sharing stories from the kitchen and the world. I will introduce my family, friends, people involved in the process. I will introduce labels who I support and like, by sharing their links. I will be the source and hopefully inspiration for others to stay creative, to be mindful that with every thought and act we leave our imprint and that having fun and enjoying all this process is of the most of value. The end result may vary and it is not suppose to be perfect. Love and respect to all involved and who's path crossed this circle.



List of Circles I support:
http://www.susunweed.com
http://www.astrologyhub.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfc_X8SFFBuoLDYoq-8_sXw/feed
http://www.goddessrising.org/maui-circle
https://womanwithin.org
https://www.manataka.org/page1467.html
https://www.zen-buddhism.net/practice/zen-meditation.html
https://www.learn-bulgarian.net/blog/bulgarian-horo
https://www.globalsisterhood.org/dearmoon

My friend and support Circle:
https://www.ashtangastudio.de
https://www.ashtangayogaathens.com/#
http://www.nuuttikataja.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician/Lissa-Meybohm-498928720453687
https://www.facebook.com/LoveSavesTheDayBerlin/
https://morenoir.com
https://like.fi/
https://voima.fi/
http://www.rosebud.fi/2011/
https://www.facebook.com/gone.wear.7
www.blauesglueck.berlin
https://www.facebook.com/jarowdesignsberlin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maitia-milena-cibulka-galvez-2891ab29/?originalSubdomain=cl
https://bildbandberlin.com
https://thebrianjonestownmassacre.com
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
http://galleriarankka.com
https://www.eobiont.de
https://www.nerdcommunications.com
http://www.garageland.fi/en
http://8mmbar.de
https://www.facebook.com/dreambabydreambar

In the forest i feel home. Bulgaria 2018.