Posts Tagged ‘Layers’

This weekend was by far my busiest … possibly of my life! Saturday was spent getting down and dirty and cleaning the house! And I mean really cleaning it! Not just tidying or shuffling stuff around like previous weeks, oh no no, this weekend the dust mites were afraid. And with good reason! Sick of Miss 4′s bedroom not having a visable floor, I decided that enough was enough!

And clean I did. Oh boy did I clean! The kids bedroom, the toy / spare room, the lounge room, my work space, the kitchen. You name it, it’s now clean. (Please don’t name the bathroom….)

Satisfied with my now presentable house, I spent Sunday messing it up! My workspace was cluttered with more clothes being cleared out from my main business of the past 18 months. The kitchen was well and truly de-cleaned with glorious soaping ‘stuff’ and the results of said stuff being whizzed and whirled around.

I. Am. Buggered!

I am so longing for the feeling of boredom right now. Those moments when you just look around realising that you kinda have nothing to do. I remember complaining when there was nothing on TV … now I’m lucky if I can remember to turn the damn thing on it’s been so long since I’ve watched.

All weekend I was doing ten different things at once! That said, it was productive. Apart from the clean rooms lasting more than two minutes (kids were with their dad), I started on the men’s soap samples, managing to finish off five already.

P.S. Single white female making the most amazingly scented men’s soaps all weekend is CRUEL!!!! I would have just about jumped any guy that knocked on my front door today! Course who knocked? My ex… /facepalm

I also managed to whip up these beauties:

The delectably edible Vanilla Oak with shredded loofah and ground Walnut exfoliating soap! Smells D I V I N E! Best Vanilla scent I have inhaled so far!

The Tea Tree loofah food scrubs. Apart from the fact Tea Tree scent makes me gag, I was a tad disappointed with how little they seemed to smooth out my dreaded feet. I hate my feet. It’s my own fault – I own two pairs of shoes: Thongs, and Thongs. (Or for the non-aussies: Flipflops and Flipflops). One pair at the front door, one pair at the back door. And everything in between is bare feet.

This was a simple recipe followed and it was a good learning experience. It involved sticking a full loofah into a cylinder container and then pouring the soap mixture over the top. What wasn’t explained was the half an hour of holding the bobbing loofah down!! And I do mean bobbing … as in up and up and down. I’m not just PG rating my swear words there.

I was tempted to just leave the last 1/4 of the loofah sticking out – it was coming up for air every three seconds! I ended up sticking a plastic spoon on it, popping the lid on the pringles container (my ‘cylinder container’) and walking away. Still working on that patience thing…

What little patience remained this weekend was spent on round two of the rainbow slice soap. I decided to change things around this time as the last ‘rainbow’ only had five colours. Oops. This time I aimed for more numerically correct layers but I’m not so sure I am happy with the results. I will reserve final judgement until it’s cut.

I also decided to pipe the top this time instead of whipped. My first time pipping – at all! Not just pipping soap, but pipping period! Mostly happy with it.

This is my ‘bit-o-everything’ soap.

• I needed to make a batch of soap (CP) to pipe the top of the rainbow cake, but you can’t make just that small an amount, so I might as well do something with the rest of the batter…
• I had melted too much white soap and later on too much pink for the rainbow soap. I had also looked at a photo just this morning of twirly whirlies in the top of a batch so naturally decided to give it a go.
• My first go at embedding MP into CP!

The idea was for a red/pink bottom half and a white top half with the pink and white twists in it. Instead the red barely showed through the batter and the fragrance oil turned my ‘white’ into yellow. Doh!

Red/brown and yellow soap with pink and white twirls and glitter. This poor soap feels like it was made by a colour blind drug addict! I can’t even work out how I will cut it! I guess that’s what I get when instead of concentrating properly, I’m going “shit hurry up, hurry up, the piping bottle is going to set! Aaah frack it just shove them in!”