Check out this gorgeous hanging pottery vase that one of my sisters sent me!!
Rosemary sent us an exciting parcel of birthday presents this week!
The vase I adore! Of course I had to put some rosemary in it haha
(No – its not our birthdays. My Mum is the one in the family that usually has her act together there being on time. The rest of us just send presents along randomly throughout the year!! Its pretty awesome!! 😀 )
My mud puddle weeding project. I’ve had a couple of goes at this area… but half heartedly really… I’ll have to put some real effort in soon since spring is creeping up on us.
See?? The plum tree is already in pre blossom production!
Where the mulching stops and the weeds kick in.
Walking the naughty chook back to her side of the garden!
They all got some hot mash this afternoon and they were thrilled!
A couple of the hothouse snow peas are looking much taller! I fed them some worm wee – will see how they like that!
Dinner! Still finding some beauties in my carrot patch!
Half of this was on the dinner plate tonight!
I felt sorry for Little Moo being out in the rain and cold, so I treated him to a few apples.
Look at that smug little face! haha
Back in my soapy world – I took the soap out of the loaf block and out of the moulds.
I like the pattern on top – but the colours were nothing at all like I planned.
You can see also that the clay colours haven’t been mixed in – even though I really thought I had gone overboard mixing.
Its all learning and practice.
I did a bit better job cutting this time – still broke away a bit.
And the colours? What you were supposed to be looking at was Indigo, Red and pink.
I think I have ochre, green and salmon.
Hmmmm. The fragrance is ‘Dragons Blood’ So I was going for dramatic colours haha – er – this is SO not dramatic.
Dragons Blood I bought because I liked the name. Think incense and oriental. Its rather nice really!
What mixture didn’t fit into the loaf mould, went into my new $1 bargain op-shop love heart moulds. Cute guest soaps maybe?
And a couple of normal sized blocks of ‘not indigo and red’
The library table seems a bit crowded! I am going to have to rethink the storage arrangements in here!
Some of it can probably now be stored in a box but I think I would like some shelves for them.
Anyway, thats all the news from soggy Tasmania!
Hope your week ends well!
Cheers!
So do you ever plan to make soap on a rope? It seems kinda silly but I like the fact that my kids can hang their soap on the handle in the shower to dry so maybe it’s not a germy. When it gets too small and breaks off from the rope we put it in a mesh bag, like vegetables from the grocery store comes in, and use till gone. I haven’t commented in awhile but I am still enjoying your blog. Wish I could smell your luscious soaps! It’s fun to watch you experiment.
Hello! Thanks for dropping by!! Thank-you for the soap on a rope reminder. I did kinda think about it ages ago but forgot with all the other excitement of actually making the soap haha – I’d really like to experiment to see if I can successfully do it. I’ve made a neat little woven bracelet and I could use that technique to make something special… just need to look into what fibres to use that wont break or disintegrate BEFORE the soap! 😀
I just made some lavender soap… smelling pretty good around here. Weather still dreadful. About to go out into it to see the chooks! Take care!! 🙂