Ahhhh crap.

I did it again, I let my life come between me and my blogging. Shame! I will subsequently attempt to recap the last month and a bit of goings on here in a single non ranting post.

August
Started my nursing course and also got a puppy. Her name is Sally and she is now the love of Dave and our lives now. Nursing is going well, although full on, which hasn't left me huge amounts of spare time for blogging or soap creating sadly. Hopefully I'll strike the right balance somewhere in the near future. So no life and lack of sleep pretty much sums up the rest of that month. Dave and I also celebrated our anniversary, but sadly no giant metal chickens.

Wow, ok when I write it like that I see why I haven't been blogging, I haven't done an interesting goddamn thing since I've started back at uni. That's ok though, I quite enjoy the relaxing pace of doing as little as possible whenever allowable.

I'll do my best to post all my non goings on more regularly from here on in! :) (which should hopefully include some soaping at some point down the line)

Salty salty goodness!!

So I tried out my newest creation yesterday in the shower, my new Black Cherry Salt Soap Scrub and while attempting to be both modest and unbiased, it rocks! I have to admit that I suffer from S.L.S, or slack and lazy syndrome to you common folk, and can sometimes not be bothered going and exfoliating with my normal scrubs most of the time. So this is the perfect combo, a moisturizing soap bar by upping the superfatting level to 8%, and added ground walnut shell and natural sea salt to the bar. Along with a generous amount of my black cherry and raspberry cream fragrances that I hadn't used in a range yet, and I'm super happy with the result. I've decided to give away the first batch I've made to anyone who wants to try it our 'risk free' as it were as I'm so stoked you'll want more after trying these! :)

Sales, Soapings and ...something else starting with S!

So today I finally felt productive! I got all soaping ingredients ordered, picked up, organized and even got to make my first batch of soap in the new place! This is my new creation...
More photos tomorrow of the finished product once it comes out of the oven. (I CPOP'd it, which I never tried before, so we're all learning new things today!) Dave and I just got back from seeing the movie Bridesmaids, which was truely hilarious! Even Dave said he thought it was better than The Hangover, so it must be pretty damn funny.

The good, the bad and the pretty...

The Good - I have totally finished moving and handed back my keys to the rental agency today. Five hours of solid cleaning, vacuuming, mopping, packing and scrubbing and I'm rental free. Now if only we get on the bounce and get this house we've been looking at I will be one happy camper!

The Bad - I might or might not have broken into a friends house on Saturday when I needed to drop off a mattress at her house and she forgot to leave her keys out for me... and she's a tad bit unimpressed with my criminal activities towards my moving. To my credit I did used to live there with her and knew one of the windows that never locks or has any screen on it, and I didn't do any damage, just hopped through it and opened the door... but I guess that doesn't really make up for it. Whoops. Sorry bout that. My bad.

The Pretty - Moving on from my entire lack of ethics to these really cool soaps I found at Milk & Cookeez these lollipop soaps made my day when I was feeling pretty damn sorry for myself. How cool are these?? I love the colours and just the fact that they even have little matching bows! These really are so awesome I feel like I want to make something similar in my line only using a cold process method if I can suss one out.... experimentation's to come!

Yeah, lets all hope tomorrow is a better day, and I think wine and grovelling is soon the be blogged about in the near future. Stay tuned for more shameless embarrassments from me.