Madly Soaping

Hi!

I’m madly gardening as well… My mental to do list is a bit much!! The above photos are the cut versions of the soaps I posted about the other… Day? Week? I’ve lost track. Surprisingly a bit crumbly with the cut but they look effective.

A last batch of Christmas tree embeds soaps from the other day… actually it was a double batch. Then today I whipped up a batch and used the end of the tree embeds to poke into these citrus and sage fragrances soaps.

I had a good response from my kind Facebook friends re the terrace house soaps so I did another batch. Pic from before windows and doors installed!

I put some Christmas soaps on my shelves at the Arty Duck last week.

It was a super slow day sadly, but I spent my time making lidded fancy boxes for my fancy terrace house soaps.

I used some of them to house my other big fancy (expensive) soaps at the Rocky Cape market last weekend and they were quite popular… ie I sold 4 hahaha. Perspective tho… I don’t often sell my ten dollar soaps!

Here is my pretty setup

(I love my banner)

Maureen’s table… With her husband Gerry’s awesome willow baskets made into hampers!

Lots of lovely stuff.

Jude was also there with her beautiful plants and veggies.

It’s such a gorgeous hall.

It was well set up and the kitchen was making scones and sausages in bread and coffee etc. Sadly the weather was a bit dismal and it kept the crowds away. We sold OK … it was a lovely day out, just would have been better for everyone’s big effort to have more people dropping in. Never can tell with markets.

Speaking of markets… I’ve been accepted to join in with the Burnie Cruise Ship Markets! Basically the council have set up the event of an area of market stalls in town to coincide with cruise ship season.

However… apparently you set up for when the ships dock… mostly 7am (I am going to die) and you stay until they head out… which is about 6pm. Quite a long day!! Not sure what to expect but will give it a go. I’ve nominated seven dates over the next three months so I’ll soon see if it’s worth my time. From what I hear, about a third of the passengers just wander around Burnie and the remaining ones do paid tours so don’t wander about the city.

Overall it means I need to be consistently making soap to keep stocked up and cured in between anything else going on! Fingers crossed!

Hope you are all having a lovely week

Xxx