I made more soap last night!
I unmolded it this evening. This is a castile shampoo bar. Castile soap is made from Olive Oil (and it’s damn expensive to make!!!!!!).
This is it all cut up into sample sized blocks. I made this batch with Goats Milk. It smells heavenly!
Next, a secret soap bar.
The colours were perfect! This is the first time I’m working with colours and the subtle swirls were exactly what I want.
HOWEVER………………………….
See the tiny white specks? Those are tiny little air bubbles.
I’ve read up different books and different websites and they are all so contradictory! Some say that the bubbles will be caustic and best to discard. Some say it’s only aesthetic.
Sigh.
I’ve emailed someone for help and hope and hope and hope and hope that the soap is usable! Otherwise I would have to dump it and it’s my FAVOURITEST batch yet! It smells heavenly and looks so good!!!!!!!
What a huge learning curve in making soap!
I’m going to end the post with a re-constructed sewing project.
A TABLECLOTH!!!!!!
This was how my dining table looked like.
Red is not my favourite colour.
We had a shower curtain that became toooo grubby and dirty at the bottom. So we bought a new one and dumped the old one.
The next day, I picked the old shower curtain out of the bin and decided to snip off the dirty bottom, washed it and put it aside to be used for sewing projects.
I collected more scraps of cloth and managed to put this together:
(spot the baby)
Yay! Blue table cloth with orange and blue edges!
The cloth was hard to sew, though, due to the nature of the fabric. It was slippery and the machine didn’t handle it very well. Therefore the cloth had very very very bad stitches. A lot of thread gathered on the underside and I can’t be bothered to re-stitch it. Just remember when you come to dinner, don’t look at the underside of the cloth. In fact, don’t scrutinize the cloth at all. Thank you very much.
