The One About Inori

Finally…… at long last!

All the nights (or rather, mornings) of dyeing and making soap.

These are the new colourways I have in store. The colours are very intense and saturated.

And of course, soap!

Handmade soap is different from commercially manufactured ones. They will not dry your skin and are made of 100% natural ingredients. Only the highest grade of essential oil and/or fragrance oil is used in my soap bars. Also, I only use approved colour pigments to colour soap.

On top of that, I use vegetable oils (Olive, Coconut, certified sustainable Palm, Rice Bran) exclusively. No animal fats are used!

I hope to whip up more soap once these are sold. Please help me out by buying some!

Shipping is automatically calculated for overseas customers now too! So you don’t have to email me for shipping charges and packaging costs etc. Any excess shipping charges will be refunded to you as well.

There is a 10% store wide sale going on now so go grab something before they’re all gone!

YARNANDKISSES

Thank you very much!

Just swinging a quick update.

This is what I’ve been up to recently:

Uh huh uh huh! I’ve been making more soap! And this time, I’m using the HP method! I love both CP and HP. HP is good for those that do not need swirls and the best thing is that I can use the soap in a day instead of waiting for weeks!

So yes, I’ve been making changes to the store (backstage, so you can’t actually see it until the curtains go up!) and working my butt off for it!

I have to race through this before school starts and I will have even lesser time. But now, all I ever dream about is the store. It’s like my 3rd baby. :-/

I can’t tell you everything but here’s a sneak peak (or a blatant giveaway) at what might be in store:

Will try to reply comments (from 4 months ago) soon! Sorwie for the delays. And ohhh, an update on mama chooki? She got off the eggs. We’re thinking of just getting chicks now and bypass the hatching process.

Gotta go!

I’m sneaking an update while both babies are napping (bliss!)

Firstly, I got to shower today! My torture confinement/purification process is finally over!

I washed my hair and used my own home made soap. Ummmmmmmmmmm Bliss!

I also did tons of work in one morning. It’s noon now and I’ve already:

- did 2 loads of laundry

- change bedsheets

- picked up all the dog poop in the backyard (Which is, like, a lot.)

- mum hovered the living room and the play room and I emptied the vacuum bag and washed it too!

Argh… look, I’ve become a mundane housewife who delights in getting housework done. WHAT HAVE I TURNED INTO????????????????????????????

Sorry.

So, pictures of bathing! Not mine though. Can’t show you those. Not that I have any either. But Chubbie’s bath time photos!

Cleaning his face.

Didn’t like being bathed.

All clean and wiping dry!

Yay! In his wondersuit! Happy happy!

With his big sister.

I managed some time to make a batch of Lavender soap too!

Smells heavenly!

And a picture of the Infant Wraplan on our little model.

One last photo of how Kelly (the cat) sleeps on Chiyo (the dog). She tries to get as much body heat from the dogs as possible!

I have to go! Again, hope to blog soon!

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.