Category: Soap

Check out this gorgeous hanging pottery vase that one of my sisters sent me!!
Rosemary sent us an exciting parcel of birthday presents this week!
The vase I adore! Of course I had to put some rosemary in it haha
(No – its not our birthdays. My Mum is the one in the family that usually has her act together there being on time. The rest of us just send presents along randomly throughout the year!! Its pretty awesome!! 😀 )

My mud puddle weeding project. I’ve had a couple of goes at this area… but half heartedly really… I’ll have to put some real effort in soon since spring is creeping up on us.

See?? The plum tree is already in pre blossom production!

Where the mulching stops and the weeds kick in.

Walking the naughty chook back to her side of the garden!
They all got some hot mash this afternoon and they were thrilled!

A couple of the hothouse snow peas are looking much taller! I fed them some worm wee – will see how they like that!

Dinner! Still finding some beauties in my carrot patch!
Half of this was on the dinner plate tonight!

I felt sorry for Little Moo being out in the rain and cold, so I treated him to a few apples.
Look at that smug little face! haha

Back in my soapy world – I took the soap out of the loaf block and out of the moulds.
I like the pattern on top – but the colours were nothing at all like I planned.

You can see also that the clay colours haven’t been mixed in – even though I really thought I had gone overboard mixing.

Its all learning and practice.

I did a bit better job cutting this time – still broke away a bit.
And the colours? What you were supposed to be looking at was Indigo, Red and pink.
I think I have ochre, green and salmon.
Hmmmm. The fragrance is ‘Dragons Blood’ So I was going for dramatic colours haha – er – this is SO not dramatic.

Dragons Blood I bought because I liked the name. Think incense and oriental. Its rather nice really!

What mixture didn’t fit into the loaf mould, went into my new $1 bargain op-shop love heart moulds. Cute guest soaps maybe?
And a couple of normal sized blocks of ‘not indigo and red’

The library table seems a bit crowded! I am going to have to rethink the storage arrangements in here!

Some of it can probably now be stored in a box but I think I would like some shelves for them.

Anyway, thats all the news from soggy Tasmania!
Hope your week ends well!
Cheers!

Hello!
Sunday! I was leisurely having my coffee when I remembered that the market was on today, so had to hurry things along a bit.
I missed out on getting the wheat for the chooks so they are going to have to put up with store bought stuff 🙂
I did find a silicone cupcake mould that will be a fine addition to my soaping gear. (Bargain – one dollar!)
We got some honey and I ordered two raised beds of a custom size for the veggie patch. The fellow is so nice! I offered a deposit, but he said no. Will make them AND deliver!! This is the part of country living I love. People are so relaxed.

After the market Jeff and I did a lap around the river track. He does it to switch off. I come back with 50 more projects and ideas because my brain goes into overdrive!

Hmmmm – a sudden explosion of bugs in my worm farm.
I’ve been advised to cut back food and just give them cow poo and cardboard. haha

Finally got to egg washing. A task put off because over winter the eggs all seem muddy and poo encrusted. Nice.

The rest of the afternoon was spent in some domestics which included a much needed vacuum. Love the wood fire but… so messy!!
Anyway, things are a bit better now.

Snow peas! I don’t know why I haven’t tried growing them over winter in my hothouse before!! I wonder how they will fare?

So… the espresso coffee soap!
They look deliciously like chocolate fudge!!

The straight espresso fragrance was SO strong but it seems to have dropped out of the soap a lot. Now I think there is just a subtle coffee smell.
I’ve also crushed some beans and added as a scrub.
Will just have to wait a while before I can test it out in the shower.

And a bit better lighting for the other two…

Jeff cancelled Netflix as we’d watched most things he thought. Give it a break for a while. THEN saw season three of Stranger Things was out… so we are trying to binge our way through it before the service cuts out lol!
Has anyone else seen it? Its so quirky. Set in the 80’s. I love the kids. Sci-fi and suspense.

Okies… thats all from me!
Enjoy what’s left of your weekend!
Cheers!