Ok… January has been crazy.
Almost non stop soap making, squeezing in some gardening, and now well into my second guests stay!!
(above chamomile flowers drying)
So happy to be getting tomatoes. Also the apple cucumbers have gone totally mad
Luckily my friend Nardia and her family loves them so I have been able to offload the majority their way!! (Only so many Jeff and I need)
I haven’t had much time for jam and sauce making but the freezers were threatening to leave home, so I did get a bit of raspberry jam made and also rendered some more fat for future soaps.
I had some successful tallow soaps… then this:
It thickened unbelievably fast, then the next day was too hard for the cheese slicer, and broke a lot under the knife!! I definitely need more practise and experience with this!
Here a few random pics of recent batches… golden honeycomb and Yuzu with loofahs embedded
This fragrance was called Unicorns and Pixie Dust… so I sprinkled it with glitter and rose petals and stuck in rosebuds….
Over the top but cute and fun!
Pineapple and papaya…. smells soooo good!!
Bunny soaps for Easter…
The soap room is… bulging haha
Anyway, right now I have my friend Yuri visiting from Japan…. So it was soap and housework frantically being done as well as more garden tidying as Yuri is a published author of several books about Japanese gardens, does tours in Japan and Europe with clients to guide and educate them about the gardens etc.
So I wanted our garden to look less… terrible!!! 😂
Dodgy pic but that is one of her lovely books I was gifted!
Anyway, we are having a great time… crazy busy. And tonight we are all packed to go on the hike back to the Japanese Gardens up in the Cradle NP.
We plan to drive tomorrow to a spot closer to the starting point, then start Thursday morning earlier than if we had to drive from home. It’s fairly hot these days, so earlier start for the first day will be nicer.
(lunch platter)
Anyway, I wanted to zoom by to say hi and bye before we went.
Hope everyone is doing well!! Xxxx