Seasons Greetings

Hello! I hope everyone’s festive season has been splendid!

What did everyone do? Big dinners? Family time? Something totally different?

Jeff and I had a quiet, normal day… unhurried but nice. We picked plums. Jeff cut some of the fallen tree branches off after we harvested and I dug up my garlic… and made soap. We had a nice steak dinner and ice cream custard and pudding for dessert.

Well… I am currently in super soap making mode. The Friday before Christmas at the cruise ship markets I sold nearly $900 worth of soap!!!! Insane day!! Never had a market like that before!! (All cash snicker)

Christmas Eve was also a good sales day, although not anywhere near as grand as Friday!! Basically I need to be making soap all of January fairly solidly to keep up. One local shop has about sold out and wants more and I have Steamfest in early March to stock up for.

I have mentioned I wanted to keep this as a side hustle yeah??

Hmmmm

Well… the above Mulled Wine fragranced soap didn’t go to plan. The colour was meant to drip into the bottom layer!!

Still looks nice enough.

White tea and ginger… sweet fragrance. Plus these moulds are so popular!!

Honey and beeswax. Apologies if Ive posted any of these before… I am on my tablet and can’t check back.

Melon… I am sure you guessed

Lemongrass and exotic lime. Double batch as the local shop wants this one.

Lemon verbena… and cute butterflies.

I sold all but two of my chai latte soaps in the two markets so thought it best to make more.

Double batch of black raspberry and vanilla

And then a double batch of eucalyptus

Belatedly realising that this fragrance might be extra popular with the international tourists.

I’ve also realised that valentines day and Easter will be here next so now is the time to make bunny and heart soaps… so prepping for that

I made a bunch of varying blue soaps… they are to be cut into little squares to be added back into soap for an interesting design.

And yesterday I worked on creating a layered soap in my slab mould.

I calculated for one and a half batches and divided it into four.

Underwhelming from the top…. I had to make each layer separately and pour… let set and then do next one.

Sneak peek.

I am looking forward to cutting them but will wait for the loaf to harden a bit so it’s easier to handle. Need to be patient since I put the effort in all day yesterday!!

Today I picked more raspberries but also squeezed in one more batch… oatmeal and stout with an oatmeal scrub and used Mediterranean red clay to colour it.

Nice and easy!

Well… its all a flying start. Clearly my recent B12 injection is kicking in haha.

Enjoy what’s left of the year

Xxx