Soap and Yarn

Yah – this is neither yarn nor soap.
But in the background I’ve been working on a few things.
Finishing off the garlic was one.
I did a second batch of garlic salt – so we are fully stocked with enough to give away here and there as presents (maybe haha)

I also did a plain batch of garlic powder. This was the second lot – I sent the first plain batch to one of my sisters. I can’t remember if I wrote about it. The Post Office truck driver said the whole truck smelled of garlic!!! (And I double bagged it too!!)

Confession.
I haven’t been blogging as much mostly because photos suddenly became REALLY time consuming and tedious to upload, multiple failures blah blah.
And because I am now hardwired to avoid support lines because my phone service provider is total agony to deal with – I really didn’t get in the headspace to just sit and sort it out.

And I might have mentioned in the past about my slight procrastination issues haha.
Anyways – I finally had a hissy fit at the system and contacted support… who kindly and expertly sorted my issue out in under five minutes!!

I. Am. An. Idiot.

Eyeroll! Writing note to self about how great Bluehost is and not to compare to Telstra in future (which has all but left me in therapy)

Watching all tonights photos upload in a heartbeat was rather satisfying!

Again – background project.
Making Mum a Christmas present.

Then I got obsessive… and had to get it done! I was enjoying it a lot but wanted to see the final product!

A nice wrapable size (Was that a word??)
And because then I was so totally overexcited about it, I put it in the mail straight away as a ‘Happy Winter Present’ instead of trying to wait until Christmas. (I’ve always got soap as a back up pressie haha)

(The outside shot shows the colours a bit more true to real life)
Of course, Mum was rather surprised and pretty rapt (wrapped???)(I kill me)
🙂

I am currently using up scraps to make more squares so I can make leg warmers… Jeff is horrified! Bahahaha – I never claimed to have style.

I haven’t done a lot of soap lately…

I attempted some ‘soap on a rope’ today but haven’t taken a snap.
It will take ages before I can test it to see if I got it right.

This one was chai tea with poppyseeds

One of todays batches – couldn’t resist being a bit loud.
Next time I’ll leave the straight circle pattern and cut and see how it looks. But today I mucked about with it.

The colours make me think of toffee apples…
The red I’ve had trouble with in the past… tends to disappear in the middle when I cut it. This time I hydrated it with oil not water – so we’ll see in the next day or so if that works better.

Anyway – it was a wet, cold, dark, gloomy and miserable winters day – was awesome being inside enjoying the fire and some soap making!

Hope your week is going well!
Stay safe and healthy!!

Cheers