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SAPO noun. Latin Soap
Sapo
Definitions from The Century Dictionary.
noun In pharmacy, soap.
noun In ichthyology, the toad-fish, Batrachus tau. Also sarpo.
noun Soap prepared from sodium hydroxide and olive oil; castile soap.
In New Mexico the Spanish word SAPO, or Toad, has always meant someone who was very lucky. Witnesses call someone Sapo when he or she makes a long shot in a Basketball game. You are Sapo if you win the lottery. You are Sapo when you walk away unharmed from an accident.
Cute (true) story: At one time, Spanish bars had a toad-shaped container by the bar and people walking in from the street would throw a coin at the toad. Getting one in the mouth was rare but when it happened patrons would call “Sapo!”. That person won the coins that had missed.
Definition: Maker
Noun. 1. maker - a person who makes things. shaper. creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things.
I lived the makers life long before I realized there was such a thing. Always making bits ' n pieces from things that had outlived their previous use. Mostly practical things, but as I aged my inner Kwerk rose to the top and injects some fun into the things I make. I plan to put some in the gallery.
Sapo, also an anagram for soap, morphed from Fat City Naturally which was the first rendering- or expression of my interest in making skin-loving creams based on natural oils and butters... because in the beginning, soap making wasn't in the plan at all.
Rather, Fat City Naturally began because I epitomize the dissatisfied Google-diving formerly academic maker. I am someone who will 'have a go' making most things and I was determined to research potions and creams that might relieve my granddaughter's itching and irritable skin. The plan was to find a harmless, non-medical solution for her. Soap-making was the show-stealing side-act.
The problem: there is a limit to how many pretty smelly soaps someone can make or gift before you a. run out of space - or b. the people you love start thinking you're a weirdo because it no longer feels like a gift when you've been gifted twenty bars of soap already. I needed a solution.
The solution: I found a night market where I could share the love with anyone who would listen- and they gave me money so I could buy more ingredients- yay!
It was fun, took the pressure from my friends and family and importantly, that's where I found other glorious 'makers' looking to off-load their treasures.
I needed an identity and Fat City Naturally was named for a Utopian dream that anyone can live in comfort just like big city fat-cats which, as it happens, my granddaughter is hyper-allergic to.
So that's the 'About Sapo' story. I hope you like my space.
Sapo
Definitions from The Century Dictionary.
noun In pharmacy, soap.
noun In ichthyology, the toad-fish, Batrachus tau. Also sarpo.
noun Soap prepared from sodium hydroxide and olive oil; castile soap.
In New Mexico the Spanish word SAPO, or Toad, has always meant someone who was very lucky. Witnesses call someone Sapo when he or she makes a long shot in a Basketball game. You are Sapo if you win the lottery. You are Sapo when you walk away unharmed from an accident.
Cute (true) story: At one time, Spanish bars had a toad-shaped container by the bar and people walking in from the street would throw a coin at the toad. Getting one in the mouth was rare but when it happened patrons would call “Sapo!”. That person won the coins that had missed.
Definition: Maker
Noun. 1. maker - a person who makes things. shaper. creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things.
I lived the makers life long before I realized there was such a thing. Always making bits ' n pieces from things that had outlived their previous use. Mostly practical things, but as I aged my inner Kwerk rose to the top and injects some fun into the things I make. I plan to put some in the gallery.
Sapo, also an anagram for soap, morphed from Fat City Naturally which was the first rendering- or expression of my interest in making skin-loving creams based on natural oils and butters... because in the beginning, soap making wasn't in the plan at all.
Rather, Fat City Naturally began because I epitomize the dissatisfied Google-diving formerly academic maker. I am someone who will 'have a go' making most things and I was determined to research potions and creams that might relieve my granddaughter's itching and irritable skin. The plan was to find a harmless, non-medical solution for her. Soap-making was the show-stealing side-act.
The problem: there is a limit to how many pretty smelly soaps someone can make or gift before you a. run out of space - or b. the people you love start thinking you're a weirdo because it no longer feels like a gift when you've been gifted twenty bars of soap already. I needed a solution.
The solution: I found a night market where I could share the love with anyone who would listen- and they gave me money so I could buy more ingredients- yay!
It was fun, took the pressure from my friends and family and importantly, that's where I found other glorious 'makers' looking to off-load their treasures.
I needed an identity and Fat City Naturally was named for a Utopian dream that anyone can live in comfort just like big city fat-cats which, as it happens, my granddaughter is hyper-allergic to.
So that's the 'About Sapo' story. I hope you like my space.
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