A friend called me a “regular soap queen” yesterday. Not really, she’s the one who taught me how and has been doing it for a long time. But I’m just trying different recipes each week, amassing a collection worth selling for some fun money.
They’re all on top of my fridge right now, excluding the loaf of calendula soap. I don’t know if that’s best because the smell of the essential oils seems to be dissipating, but we aren’t set up for full time soap factory here in our tiny little antique house. There’s green tea/ lemongrass/ eucalyptus on the left (they’re kind of funky-shaped) and plain castille, green tea/lemongrass, and rosemary exfoliating on the right. Can’t wait for them to cure because I’m still using Ivory.
Since we finally got our Christmas tree put away and my fortieth birthday has come and gone, I thought I’d take a minute (Who am I kidding? It took for-freaking-ever…
I’m fighting the urge to re-knit this knit along tank a size larger. I know stockinette curls under and that I’ll be adding edging and a band to the bottom,…
Forgive me, this will be a scattered, grocery list sort of post with too many links. Oh, well. I can scratch another resolution off of the list- well, almost. This…
Brioche got served today. It’s been taunting me for 12 years, lurking in the back corners of my brain since I was a new knitter and tried to knit this…