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Monday, 20 January 2014

Enjoy the Ride

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Soap making Day!


This beautiful Sunday afternoon finds me sitting down to make a blog post before Monday rolls around and my week gets rolling. 
Sweet hubby and I came home after an early church service to the smell of chili bubbling away in my large Crock pot and a cherry dessert in my smaller one.  I took a quick walk outside in the cheery sunshine before sitting down to a pleasing meal.

Now that we've eaten and cleaned up the kitchen, I wanted to let my blog friends know what I'm going to be up to tomorrow.  It's soap making time!

I gathered up my soap supplies while out and about yesterday and plan to get up early in the morning throw laundry into the washer and then get busy with my soap making.

I usually make my soap the old fashioned way with just lard, lye, and water, but thought I would swap out half of the lard for a blend of coconut, olive, and canola oils this time.  I'm thinking the coconut oil will add a little more lather to my soap.  We'll see.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

I've got to go out to my storage shed in a little while and get my soap making supplies down so that I can get hubby to wrap my soap mold with plastic wrap.  He does such a great job that my soaps come out wrinkle free. 

Just follow this link if you want my step-by-step instructions for making your own homemade soap.
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http://ahappyvalentine.blogspot.com/2011/01/making-soap.html


What do you have planned for the week, anything special?
But then every day is special, isn't it?
Hope you have a great new week!

Monday, 6 January 2014

A Dreamy Kind of Day

Well, no pictures for my blog today.  Blogger is being very contrary and refuses to let me upload any but I'm posting anyway, so "Hah, Blogger!"

While the washer and dryer were catching up with my laundry chores for me, I took a walk out in the "brisk" winter air.  It's 21 degrees with a wind chill factor of 7 degrees, but the sun is shining and I bundled up.  Now I'm back home in front of the fire and plan to take a little break after putting in my next load of laundry.

I have some wonderful reading and dreaming material waiting for me.  I wish I could show you the picture but I'll just describe it.  There's sunlight streaming through the living room window and falling on my comfy chair that's holding a soft blanket, the book I'm currently reading ( Grace by Richard Paul Evans), and a brand new seed catalog that the mail carrier brought me today.  Such dream material, I can just picture my summer vegetable garden!  Now I'm going to make a cup of hot lemon tea and enjoy my reading time before the dryer rudely buzzes out my name.