Busy days for Pip being a Siamese with a comfy warm spot!
Meanwhile, we’re getting nice steady pickings from the garden (Last of the corn… sob)
Yesterday (Saturday) I thought it was Sunday and set out to do nothing important at all – all day.
Having been to basket weaving on Friday, I decided to try out what I saw being demonstrated by Adele (I am still working on my bread basket)
Conveniently we’ve got stacks of things around the yard I can prune and use
The vine thing is out of control around the side and takes a fair bit of unwinding and untangling to then be able to use
The gilderose (snowball plant bush?) is perfect for sturdy bendy frame sticks
The tricky bit is trying to bend them all up evenly
Sooooo… a whole heap of yarn later…
I kept working out on the back veranda until Jeff wandered out and mentioned he was going to get into the olive bread we were given so I thought I better head inside and sort dinner out!
(We’d had some overnight guests now that we’d proven not germy and they brought us this lovely gourmet bread and a bottle of wine)
I brought all my rubbishy vines inside and continued my weaving after dinner in the comfort of the fire
Ta Daaa?? Haha… Its done !
It doesn’t sit up completely upright but I could do something to the base to fix that if I wanted to
Anyway, it was fun and quick to do!
Today (Sunday for real this time) I decided to smash out a few batches of soap.
I started with some Rose Fragrance soap since I had run out and its so popular
A batch of the aloe vera soap as I had disembowelled some aloe the other day and frozen it.
Even with the green clay in it, its worked out a bit more oatmeal ish in colour.
(Its got Rosemary essential oil in it too)
I am loving using the aloe soap from the first batch I made. This time I changed the recipe a bit… added some castor oil which makes it more sudsy (apparently)
Then a double batch of Japanese Honeysuckle.
I’ve got three layers of colours in here… and went fancy pants with a drizzle of gold on top.
Fingers crossed the cut looks ok.
The leftover mix I popped into some round moulds
We’ve started putting on the fire in the evenings (mostly) as its cooling down.
Pip has been THRILLED to have his special warmed towel back again. He gets wrapped up and we don’t see him for the rest of the night!!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Cheers
That olive bread looks delicious and Pip looks so cozy in his warm towel. Nothing like a spoiled fur baby! I.m intrigued by the aloe in the soap. I have an aloe plant that is growing way too large for inside. I may have to try my hand at soap making after loving your soap show for so long!
I was really happy with the first batch of aloe soap I made… lovely to use! Looking forward to when I can test this batch out.
Oh I hope you do get a chance to learn soap making! So satisfying! I’d really try to see if you can do a workshop though. Youtube is pretty good but there is SO MUCH info out there. I liked having someone guide me through in the first instance for sure!