Sunshine

Looking out it is such a beautiful day.  I have put my cup cakes in the sun to dry for a while, too long and they will start to fade.   Went down to the beach for ten minutes and wanted to stay for the day but too much too doooo.

Fragrances

Getting my head around these cup cakes and the smells.  The fragrances are great, really strong, but the essential oils are almost to subtle.  Will have to see how they are in a couple of days.  Have covered them with cling film to keep their smell in while they dry.  Have lots of catching up with stock after the weekend, I thought I made enough snowmen at Christmas but the flip flops have surpassed the snowmen.

Warnham

Went to Wrnham village fete and it was a lovely day, the organisers had worked hard and there was entertainment going on all day.  Sold lots of soap and made new friends, so it was a really lovely day.
Made new cup cakes on Friday and unmolded them today.  Taken to making the tops with whipped soap so much easier to work with, in fact it almost takes too long to begin to set to be able to put it through the icing nozel.  They look the best yet, it is great fun looking and trying new things.

The not so nice

Have been made by the boss (my daughter) to work out all the costs because I had said that essential oils were going up in price.  Unfortunately it means that the new lots of soaps will have to go up to cover the cost of ingredients and making.  It would be so nice if for six months nothing went up in price and maybe petrol came down!

Purple Fairies

Tuesday I made Lavender cup cakes, unmolded them on Wednesday morning and thought oh no they are not mauve.  Opened the cupboard this morning and the purple fairy had done her work, they are all lavender colour.  I have a mauve powder colour, one I bought in my very early days of soaping and I find it such hit and miss when colouring, so yesterday actually got around to ordering a new colour mauve in liquid form from Gracefruit where I find the colours great.  Of course whilst there could not resist ordering some new fragrances for the bath bombs and soaps.

Daisies

Found brill cutter for my daisies, been cutting them out and leaving them to dry, they smell lovely - pink in lilly fragrance.  Spent the day making lots of flowers, I have the fiddly little ones but they look so sweet on the cup cakes.  Off to ice the cup cakes now and realease the next set of flip flops - raspberry out of the moulds.

Soap

Flip flops - keeping up with them, I have lost count how many I have made, now have eight pairs drying at a time.  Lavender is in bloom so just made lavender cup cakes and also glycerine cup cakes in  cherry red, honeysuckle yellow and pink english rose, need to ice them tomorrow.  Off to Warnham fete on Sat, sounds a good day with dog show, gun dogs, and lots of other entertainment. 

wow

Wow what a hot day it was yesterday. We were in Petersfield town and it was so so busy.  Thanks to all those who visited our stall and bought our soaps, we are now gearing up to make make make this week to replace.
Look forward to doing another at Petersfield.

Chemicals

An interesting issue, so I offer soaps with no chemicals then I offer soaps with chemicals but the safer ones and not SLS.  A lady yesterday wanted one of my products because it smelt lovely but she would not use fragrance because rightly it is a chemical, however she hit on the the ingredients.  Getting home I thought I would check out that they were the ones less harmful,  they are used in an awful lot of food we eat and in the basis of soya meat, that one surprised me.  It would be great to live in a perfect world but some people are really really anti chemicals and then I see an awful lot that don't care what they put on their bodies.  Anyway if I do my bit to eliminate as much of the chemicals as possible then I feel I can slowly educate people.  I always say about which is artificial/fragrance and which are essential oils.  I read a web site the other day and the person went on very very strongly about never using any chemicals, everything was natural etc., however if someone could find me wild fig and cassis as an essential oil it would be great, as far as I am aware it is a man made fragrance.

Autumn

Well if feels as if Autumn is here already, the Village and markets are empty so everyone has gone into early hibernation.  Possibly it is because I am making so many bath bombs which are normally associated with Christmas.  Roll on summer if your listening. 

Soaps

Whilst this may sound funny, looking at my bath bombs, which have just been iced with lovely colours,  makes me proud and sad.  To think they are off across the waters to another land, it is like saying goodbye to a child you have raised.  Silly I know but when you are proud of your work that is how you feel.  They look gorgeous in pink, blue, mauve and yellow for the fizzy lemon ones, wow they sound edible.

Nettles

When you steep nettles in hot water it has this lovely earthy smell and it comes through in the plain nettle soap.  Picked some more last night for my third batch this year and noticed that the elderflowers were starting to come into flower so need to pick some of those and make elderflower soap.  Had a lovely day on Sat at a Primary School, I wish my head teacher had been as nice when I was at school.  Off to do some gardening before getting down to more soaping.  I have a large order which has come and I need to make up however a parcel company has kindly misplaced 25kg of Bicarbonate of Soda for my bath bombs and I need it.  If you see a stray 25kg let me know.

Milkshakes

Busy making milkshake soaps vanilla cream.  Tomorrow at Rudgwick School.  Look forward to lie in on Sunday however have quite a few orders to fill by Monday. 

Keeping company drying.

CRUMBLE MELTS

ICED BATH BOMBS

CUP CAKES

Wow

Wow I cannot believe where the last month has gone, not only has it gone but the nettle soap has been going as fast as the days.  I am about to pick for my fourth batch, people realise that it does help with ezcema and psoriasis.  Made my first batch of whipped soap, which was great, except that it seemed to take ages to thicken unlike my last dog soap which was setting in the pan before going into the molds, what fun that was.  I made my first batch of bubble bars yesterday and they are great, topped off with small amounts of whipped soap for a lovely bubbly cleaning bar.  Did my first mag interview, selling well in wholesale and have now got soaps into shops, so excuse me for not being around for a month but wow it is has been all go.  Made honey soap, now that is interesting, followed the receipe, cannot understand why people put beeswax into soaps when all it does is give it a funny smell and make the bar harder, next batch will have less wax and more honey much better.