Wild Honeysuckle

Hot Chocolate Milk

Lemon Lime

Dragons Fire

Here are my latest soaps.. They all are to die for and are all in my Etsy store.. There is a link to the left if you are interested.. Lots of goodies to see there.. Okay.. Back to the soap pot.. I have Nag Champa and Victorian Rose cooking.. LOL

So.. coming up I have Victorian Rose, Nag Champa, Storm Watch, and Amber Musk.. YUMMY bunch of soaps for ya.. Most will be ready on Monday.. I am hoping to get soaping time tomorrow.. I have some fragrance that smells just like the wintermint lifesavers that I would like to get made up. That one is my all time FAVORITE.. YUM!!

i am in the final phase of my wax and wick testing. I have it perfect now.. LOL YAY!!! I plan to have some up in my Etsy store (link on sidebar) this weekend. I made a ton on them. Some are left overs from a custom order I did. Guess I measured a bit off.. LOL

For candles coming up I have Patchouli, Sandalwood, Blueberry muffin, strawberry, storm watch, dragons blood, vanilla sugar cookie, orange enlighten, enlighten, orange creamsickle, spiced apple, butter creme, and cranberry.. They all smell so yummy..

I did a custom for 10 each of strawberry, cranberry, butter creme, spiced apple, blueberry muffin, vanilla sugar cookie, and orange enlighten. $420.00 total, so I probably made about $325.00 after supplies but before the time it took to make and label them. I was pleased.. LOL

I did get my Peach Passion and Papaya Waterlily with safflower soaps listed today. The papaya waterlily smells so heavenly.. I cannot compliment it enough.. Safflower is supposed to be good for fevers and menstrual cramps.. Hmm.. I will have to try it out. LOL

The peach passion is much lighter than I intended, but still smells great. Just lighter than I normally scent them. This will be good for those who do not like strong fragrances.

Keep watching for new products. I have some of my solid lotion sticks, lip balms, lip tints, and solid perfume coming up soon.. i am also working on getting some room sprays and body sprays up. Gota get moving with christmas coming up so fast.. LOL

Update.. No new car yet. I am being told that I am to picky, but.. I just want the right vehicle.. Wish I had the money to by a hybrid, but htat just isn't in the cards with our other plans..

New soaps almost ready for selling... I have been sniffing them all night. LOL All of them should be ready by next week. The Peach Passion will be ready Friday, but prolly won't list it until this weekend. I am hoping to get some others made up this weekend. I only have a few weeks left before Christmas and I have 22 gift baskets to make up for family and friends. Just plain not enough time..

Dragons Fire, Milk Chocolate, Wild Honeysuckle, Lemon Lime, Peach Passion and Papaya Waterlily with safflower petals are the ones that are close to being ready..

I have Patchouli, Nag Champa, Sandalwood, and a few others that will be ready the following week. I am trying to get so that I have 5 or 6 soaps ready each week. If anyone has a request, just give a shout. I would be happy to make some for ya..

Okay.. I am off to bed. Lots of stuff on my plate for tomorrow. I gotta get on the ball and get a vehicle by next weekend. Driving the kids car is making me crazy. It is a nice car, but so inconvenient having to "share".

Have I ever told you all that I really have no life outside of work and my family.. LOL I have the whole Saturday night to myself and what do I do? I stay home and make soap. How sad is that.. LOL

Tonight I made 5 batches.. I am testing some new scents and I just love them.

batch 1.. Dragons fire.. It's so multi faceted you will find layers of musks, ambers, a touch of patchouli, nag champa, cedars to warm and enhance this exotic fragrance, and much more.

Batch 2.. Milk Chocolate.. oh how yummy this smells!!

Batch 3.. Wild honeysuckle.. Man.. I really love honeysuckle, but his wild scent is to die for.. I am not big on florals, but this one is right on the money..

Batch 4.. lemon lime. Makes me want to put it "in the coconut and twist it all up".. LOL.. LOL

Batch 5.. Papaya Waterlily.. I added safflower petals to this one.. It is by far my favorite of the night. What a fantastically clean fruity scent.. I just love it. I will be saving a few of these bars for myself..

Now that it is 1:30 in the morning, I need to get to bed. I have to get up early and get some patches sewn on Soldier Nicks class A's..

Night all.. Hope you all had a great night.

I have been super busy all weekend making soap and firestarters. I have uploaded a bunch of them into my etsy store. I have vanilla coffee scrub soap, juniper breeze with poppy seeds, melon shea butter soap, fruit blast soap, herbal peppermint lavener soap.. Just all kinds.. I even have one that smells exactly like a Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie.. YUM!! http://www.brikeney.etsy.com

I added some pictures below of my firestarters. The reddish ones are a mulberry blend that smells like the holidays.. LOL The whiter ones are white tea. What a nice delicate scent. Sood thin I like it cause I have 12-8 ounce bottles of it to use up.



Nothing much happened this weekend. The older kids were both at friends houses for basically the whole weekend. Brittni is out at a buck Cherry concert tonight. Shoudl be a great concert. Macky and Katie spent the day getting all sugared up with Pops.. He has a way of winding them up and sending them home. One day I will have paybacks.. LOL

Okay. So enough rambling. Go check out my store and I am off to bed. Hugs

Here is the soap I made yesterday all cut and ready for curing. The ones in the back are the hot process, so they will be ready to go in a couple days. I ran out of olive oil, so I went and picked some up today. Might make me a couple batches tonight, but not sure. Kinda tired.. LOL

So.. WE had a great day. Busy, but great. Brittni had her Senior year powder puff football game today for Homecoming. Seniors kicked Butt... LOL They won 58 to 14. Yay Seniors.. Here are a couple pictures for your viewing pleasure.. LOL Brittni is #34 wearing red pants..
Here is the whole senior team that showed up.. We call these two "B squared" LOL Both are Brittnis (different spellings though) and if you want them both to turn around you have to holler B-squared or you are likely not to get either of them to turn.. My Brittni is holding Delilah the cutest BB Puppy..



Now after a busy day of football, and transporting kids, what better way to celebrate than to make soap right... So....

Here is my first batch of the day. Pumpkin Pie.. Oh how I love that scent.. I just dream of the scent, but can you believe that I cannot eaat a pumpkin pie to save my soul. I don't think I have ever really liked it either. But it sure does smell good..
Here it is after about 2 hours in the mold. I added a touch of cinnamon to the top just to give it some edge.. LOL Looks good doesn't it?.?.?.
Okay.. So this is a really yummy Apple Spice soap that was cold process until that darn rice-ing problem happened.. So.. I hot processed it and it still smells heavenly.. It is the 1st rice-ing in a while. Talk about piss a person off...ARG!!! I decided to put wax paper over it to smooth it sown and it stuck to it. Frack!! So I left it on until it was cooler and pulled the paper off. Not bad. It didn't turn out as smooth as I would have liked, but better t han nothing I guess..


Here is a yummy smelling double broiler hot process soap that is higly scented in Hot Apple Pie. YUM YUM YUM... It did not start out to be hot process, however, the fragrance caused it to rice, so I figured to heck with it.. Lets just cook it.. 2nd one of the day that did that. I am wondering if it is the apple fragrances or what???Did I mention I really hate hot process.. LOL
In the pot...
in the mold...
And here is the last batch for tonight.. Honeydew. Beautifully colored in green. It will be darker when it cures, but I wish it would stay this color. Stunning and it smells GREAT!! And the best part.. It didn't rice on me.. YAY!!!
And here it is in the gel stage...

Good morning!! Well.. almost afternoon.. LOL So.. I have unmolded my soaps and have them cut and ready to cure. This will take about 5 weeks of drying time. They smell heavenly. I will have to up my recipe size. They are still not the size i need them to be, but heck.. that is what testing is all about. LOL

I will probably use these as sample packs. You know.. 3 or 4 smallers bars wrapped together so sample the different recipes.. Anyway. Please disregard the jars of Salsa I canned.. And also disregard the Smirnoff Ice bottles in the background.. LOL Those were not mine.. Honest.. I am going to use them with a corked top to store my Kombucha tea.. LOL Seriously.. I am really not joking.. LOL

Okay. so it is a late night tonight. I made up 3 batches of soap and I promised to take pictures this time.. LOL

So.. My first batch seized up on me. Darned if I was so po'ed.. I frigging hate it. It was going so well. Then I added a new fragrance oil and wouldn't you know... So.......I rebatched it and made it into hot process. I am not so fond of hot process. The bars just never seem to get completely solid. I mean they are solid, but never super hard like my cold process bars are.. Anyway.. Here is a picture..It smells like wine and is so fragrant...


Okay.. So next up was sandalwood honeysuckle.. It went perfectly. Didn't fill my new mold as I had hoped. I miscalculated how much it would hold, but... Still a nice soap. picture is one right after the pour and covered with saran wrap to minimize the ash.. The second picture is in the gel stage. Notice the creamy edges. Almost a full gel at this point. YAY!!! It also smell heavenly.



Now for my favorite.. This one is scented with coconut fragrance and has a ton of calendula petals in it. WOW!!! Doesn't it look great in the mold. It is going to be sooo wonderful. I didn't use any color in the sandalwood or the coconut.. Those will be naturally a yellowish due to the fragrances..



So.. I will make another 4 or 5 batches tomorrow. I want to get some Neroli made up. To many requests to pass on it this time.. LOL And please disregard the priority mail tape.. LOL I couldn't find the stupid masking tape anywhere. Darn kids took it.. I know they did.. LOL

I also took a picture of some of the veggies and such I have been canning.. Plugging away to get ready for winter. I will get the pumpkin butter done sometime next weekend. Ignore the soap molds on top of them and the mess around them.. LOL I have been trying to get so much done and I really gotta learn to put stuff away as I go..


Now. Here is my Kombucha tea brewing. I couldn't remember if i posted pictures of it, so here it is just in case.. Yummy stuff... Notice the babies growing on top while the mommys are below them..

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