Pictured: My first soap effort! My “Vanilla Sugar Dreams” soap.
It’s taking me some time to put my soapmaking post together (I hope to have this ready soon), but in the meantime I want to report that I have made soap!
AND I SURVIVED TO TELL THE TALE!
IT’S A MIRACLE!
In other words, it wasn’t really a big deal, after all.
I didn’t make the most awesome soap ever. The greatest soap in the history of soap. The best soap since sliced soap.
But I made soap.
Making soap is like making cheese is like baking bread is like canning tomatoes is like driving a car on snowy roads. The more you do it, the better you do it. The hardest part about making soap is getting over the notion that it’s hard. And that the lye is scary and is going JUMP OUT OF THE BOWL AND SMACK YOU.
The lye didn’t even make a peep at me. It, like, totally just sat there in the bowl.
And I made soap.
I even made some mistakes (which I will detail to you in the how-to post in all their mistaken glory) and I still made soap.
I had no idea what I was doing and I still made soap.
I was taking pictures at the same time and I still made soap.
Making soap is just not that difficult.
And I’m already making more of it and I’m planning to make more and more of it, and get better and better at it, because now I know that–
–I can make soap.
P.S. And so can you!
P.P.S. Cindy, who helped me with formulating and testing the recipe for my “Vanilla Sugar Dreams” soap also has some of this soap for sale at her shop, if you’re interested! (Made by her! Not me!) Visit the Chippewa Creek shop here.
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More and more canned strawberries–I finished up my latest strawberry fiesta with a strawberry-pineapple conserve that is DIVINE. I’m making a lemon-lime marmalade next.
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Every spring, as soon as Georgia sees her crocuses blooming, she calls me to tell me to come over and take pictures.
She ordered the bee up special just for me.
She also had ducks on her pond.
And calves in the pasture behind her house.
And she kept telling me if I didn’t stop taking pictures of her it would–
–BREAK MY CAMERA! Or maybe she meant she would break it.
P.S. She recently had some dead trees pushed over. It’s spring! Time to get the yard cleaned up!
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