Olfactory Oligarchs Budget Spring 2009

Meeting Information

 * Meeting Frequency: weekly
 * Number of Meeting: 13
 * Projected Attendance: 22

Meeting Expenses

 * Total Food: $ 264
 * Advertising: $ 0
 * Magic Board: $ 0
 * TOTAL: $ 264

Other Expenses

 * Description: This last semester I donated about $140 worth of my personal essential oils to the Olfactory Oligarchs, so that we could host a perfume-making workshop for the Hampshire community. However, as a poor college student, I can no longer afford to do this. Really I couldn't afford to do it once. But I'm a sucker for perfume :) In order to continue to host workshops relating to the wonderful world of aroma and aromatherapy, we require the building of at least a modicum of an essential oil / perfume library. We shall only purchase organic essential oils from local companies, such as Wyndmere and Leyden House. Except for litsea, which can only be bought from AuraCacia :) We shall spend this money primarily from online retailers, all of whom will give you free shipping if you yell at them long enough. These purchases will be stored with Naya Gabriel, our Lab Manager, in Cole Science Center. They will be kept in a fire-safe cabinet under lock &amp; key. Anything left at the end of the year will be saved for next year. We look forward to hosting many more workshops for the Hampshire community with what this money shall buy.
 * TOTAL: $ 300

Equipment Information

 * Name: Equipment for candle-making activity
 * Description: This will be done in a supervised way, in a safe, sterile, smoke-free and fragrance-free environment. Candles shall of course never be used in dorm rooms or mods.	Beeswax (local) Vegan Soy Wax  Wicks  Molds  Dyes (all-natural)  Essential Oils (for fragrances; optional)	Equipment will be stored in my mod until it is used, which should be 1-2 weeks after order is completed. This is for safety's purposes; the material is valuable, and we don't want it stolen. Thereafter the majority of the equipment will be used up in the candle-making itself. It will be stored in little boxes that people will put them in, so they can give the candles to their friends and loved ones!	$210.00	Beeswax is about $24 per pound, from the Warm Colors Apiary (where the Hampstore gets its honey from). Soy wax can be had cheaper, but will be purchased in greater amounts. Molds can come cheaply from Amazon (~5 each). Dyes and essential oils will come from Whole Foods, mainly from the local Wyndmere brand. Wicks will come from Michael's, which specializes in craft materials. Once we are convinced we can do it well ourselves, we would like, perhaps the next semester, to hold an all-campus candle-making session, like the perfume-making we are going to be holding in March, or our planned soapmaking meeting.
 * Purpose: So that the Hampshire College Olfactory Oligarchs can host a public meeting to make ourselves candles!
 * Storage Location:

Equipment Expenses

 * TOTAL: $ $210.00 will allow us to hold an open meeting in which all our twenty-plus active members (and growing!)