Friday, August 1, 2008

Liquid Soap Paste

Oh, oh, oh, oh, OH!! MamaV is happy dancing around the room! Why? Well, remember a couple of days ago? We mentioned that MamaV had made liquid soap. Mama confided her terrifying nightmare - in her dream, she opened the cooler (after fighting off zombies), lifted out the crock pot, and still had oil.

She awoke screaming. OK, not screaming. But she gasped really, really hard.

So today, MamaV screwed up her courage and approached the soap cooler.

No zombies in sight. *phew* She opened the cooler, lifted out the crock, and...


Paste, glorious PASTE!! Sooo smooth! Such a screamingly sweet translucent color! Oh the rapture! MamaV now has 5 16 ounce baggies of paste languishing in the soap fridge (and one 14 ouncer - so cute, The Runt!).

Oh happy day!

Later, Mama may allow us to see the coffee bars. They smell heavenly.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Something's in the kitchen - it's making soap!



Mama got her groove back. Yesterday, she made a list of 7 soap choices she wants in place by 9/1 with a wish list of 5 additional scents. Last night, she acted and finished one plus one not on either list.




Mama V's Soap List (as copied from her purple notepad):




  1. Sandalwood Vanilla - White swirl of kaolin clay


  2. Strawberry & Cream - Strawberries and cream in freezer, pink kaolin for color...Swirl?


  3. Scrubby Vanilla Coffee


  4. Frank & Myrrh - Silver mica swirl!!


  5. Suger Plum - Alkanet?


  6. Mandarin Bergamot


  7. Beer Soap


Already, number 3 is crossed off. Mama chose to use leftover coffee from yesterday morning as the liquid. The entire house smelled of strong roasted coffee.




Then her eyes fell on the emergency coffee bean bag. She planted a row of whole fresh coffee beans into the mold. We're dying to see the final version!


The liquid soap took us all by surprise. Mama hadn't listed it. But MiniV is almost out of bubble bath, so we should have expected it.

We can't wait to see what this weekend brings!

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