Well, you can’t say I didn’t warn you – school holidays have totally messed with my blogging schedule (never mind my soaping schedule!!). This time last week I was most likely in the middle of a field playing swingball, or sitting on the beach in blazing sunshine, watching the kids building sandcastles, or eating fish & chips – the specifics don’t matter. The point is we spent a long weekend camping on the coast, in the most glorious sunshine, with no phone signal and certainly no wifi, and blogging was quite far from my mind. Our tent and the view from the front of it:
We were SO lucky with the weather – the cloud you see here is just early morning cloud (took the photo just after 7am) and it soon cleared and we had three glorious days of sunshine.
I didn’t manage to make any soap during the week before we went, and I suddenly realised when we got home on the Tuesday that I had nothing to cut during my regular Wednesday night demo the following evening. So I quickly whipped up a double batch of Serenity – too quickly as it turned out…
Once again I soaped at too high a temperature (the lye is usually at room temp) and it set up too quickly. It’s not awful, but it’s not as I would like it.
Remember the Clarity & Welsh Rose batches I made the previous week? I did actually take some photos as promised:
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The rest of any child-free time I managed to wangle last week was spent wrapping soaps and bath bombs for my monthly craft fair in Porthmadog yesterday (Saturday):
This summer special proved to be the best seller by a country mile – Traeth Craig Du (Black Rock Sands) named after our nearest beach, about 20 minutes away:
It has ground apricot stone in the bottom portion to represent sand, and has a gorgeous beachy / ozoney scent.
Finally I made a couple of purchases this week that I’m very excited about. Firstly, I actually bought a stand thingummy and some lenses for my iphone so that I can think about making soaping videos soon AND I also bought and downloaded Jo Haslauer’s book on colouring soap naturally.
Jo has been a real inspiration recently (check out here IG feed here) the colours she manages to achieve from infusing botanicals are incredible, and I’m really keen to give them a go. Don’t ask me when though 😀
Thanks for reading. Bear with me during these school holidays, but I’ll be back soon!!
You sure pack a lot in, Vicki!!
Haha I try Sarah 🙂
Oh, such a busy lady! Love your Traeth Craig Du soap. So gorgeous! No wonder it’s a top seller. The others are gorgeous too, as always, but that one has a local connection and a summery theme — sure hit!
Thanks, the local theme is definitely a huge draw Lisa. Given that we live in a very popular holiday destination I’m starting to think a ‘local’ range would be a good idea 🙂