A Busy Week of Work

I’ve not been gone… just busy making soaps & lotions.

I move on Saturday to a show in town for next weekend. She has private appointments the beginning of the week before the official shopping weekend so we move our products in early.

The set-up is great. About 10 crafters have products there from silk arrangements to jewelry to my soaps & lotions to wall hangings. All in a rustic carriage house. Just a great stop! My order for more cocoa butter arrived. Last time I purchased the cocoa butter in pellets and that was so great! Even tho I had ordered during hot July and some of the pellets had melted it was better than one 10 pound chunk. Guess what arrived this time? A 10 pound chunk! It didn’t take as long as I expected to chisel it into usable pieces. I repackaged it into 3 large ziploc bags.

But, oh yummy, it smells sooo good!

This week I made goat milk body lotion in just 3 fragrances since I found I was nearly out of my 100-count bag of bottles just as I was ready to get started! I also made a few more batches of Butterlicious Body Cream (c) to round out the inventory.

In mid-May I’m teaching a soapmaking class at a large craft day in Rock Falls. So this is the end of the wire (timing-wise) for getting soap made.

I did a batch of Red Clover Tea on Sunday (love the swirls!), Waterfall Mist on Tuesday, Baby Kisses with lotion added in today, and have a batch to make into Black Raspberry Vanilla tomorrow!

Today I cut the 2 earlier batches…. satisfaction!
After that and labeling was finished for today, I made bread, cole slaw with home made sf dressing, and grated a huge chunk of cheese. Along with keeping up with the men, cooking 3 meals, laundry, and a short nap!