Packed – Nearly!

Hi there!
About to have a shower and hit the hay!
Bags mostly packed. Will have to make some sandwiches in the morning before heading off. We are not 100% sure of our hiking plans. There seem to be a few options in this area – so will all be a bit of an adventure.

Pip, putting things together has a look of deep suspicion on that little Siamese Face!! 🙁
(Vet visits, bags and me vacuuming) haha

Soap above/below. My friend sent me some essential oils to try. This one is lemongrass and so far smells amazing. Essential oils don’t always hold their fragrance in the soap making process. I haven’t been buying them because its a very costly experiment. So I feel lucky to have been given some to play with!

Here are some pretty rough snaps of Jeffs necklaces. Lots of petrified wood and agate used.
I am sure his Mum would like to see them – Judy… I’ll work on getting nicer photos sometime!

In a jumble but a pretty jumble!

As usual I had a great day out at Sharons with one of her soap making workshops. Only three people ended up coming but everyone opted to do two batches, plus we had two batches ordered by her cousin, so we madly did 8 batches of soap that day…
THEN… I came home to make a half batch to experiment with piping on some cake like frosting… hmmmm

Slightly hilarious…
I’ve used an op-shop silicone loaf mould which is beautifully wonky.
The fragrance was chai tea.
The piped colours are… interesting??

Honestly I must have been delirious!
I thought the red would come out pink but it ended up orange.

However… it was good to finally try this and I’ll do it again with more thought to the colours.
I’ll just market it as ‘Ugly Chunky Chai Tea Soap’

It was actually fun to do so I am keen to try again!

Have a great week everyone and hopefully I’ll stroll back at the end of it all with some new stories!

Cheers!