Day 2 - It walks...

So after poking MamaV with sticks, Juan the Soap Elf abandoned all common sense and went in with a sniffie of tea tree/cedar wood that MamaV has been working on. MamaV's first intelligible words of 2011 were "Needs lavender".

Then she scooped up the essential oils, some Polysorbate 20, and a pipette, stepped on Juan the Soap Elf, and raced to the soap kitchen where she tested the blend in some liquid soap.

We're hopeful that she'll stay on this path of productivity. But if not, we'll keep the poking stick handy.

Happy 2011!

MamaV had all sorts of grand plans today: soaps, bath bombs, lotion bars...but we've been poking her with a stick since the ball dropped over the Big Apple and there's no movement. Some snoring. But nothing we can really call awareness.

So from all of us hiding in MamaV's cupboard, Happy New Year (and please hide the cooking sherry next year). We expect great things and much activity from MamaV. Just not today.

Slacker!

MamaV has been a super slacker lately. She knows it. We know it. Now you know it. Also, she appears to have deleted a linked photo. So she's stupid and a slacker.

We hope to see her in the soap kitchen soon. We're out of bath bombs and liquid soap. So if you see her, giver her a glare for us.

Where's Mama V?

Sorry, Waldo. No offense.

Mama V seems to have a craft fair this Saturday (9/11/2010) in the "Little Italy" section of Schenectady. To be honest, we're a little worried that she won't make it.

We've seen evidence of soap making as seen in a (since deleted) hastily captured early, early morning shot:

The coffee indicates Mama V was nearby.

But will she be ready?

Latest Ramblings

Tropical Vacation wafts through the soap room. The new mold arrived and was christened. Mama over-estimated the volume so instead of 25 little bars, she created 50 FABULOUS bars. Word on State Street is she ordered 4 pounds of new fragrance.

After the alpha batch finishes curing, it'll be dressed up and sent out to hustle.

Mama has also been bombing again. But these are successful. Mama Has a new technique in mind to create Bath Bomb Pearls. So far, we're not seeing the pearl part, but we love bath bomb testing so we're not telling her.

The Creature - She Walks!

When last we saw MamaV, she was a bit outside our realm of comprehension. Not exactly around the bend but nowhere near sane. In the interim, the dog died, her church closed, several fish swam to the light, and her grandmother went home to Jesus.

But MamaV is better now. If one of her "sassafrassing" soap molds ever arrives, she's all set to soap her face off. We even caught her folding waked paper in the shape of her old log molds. Will she soap? One can never tell.

Update on MamaV

MamaV had a really rough February. The bad luck started with her Dad's stroke on 2/1 and ended with watching a stranger die on the street on 2/28. Given all that transpired in that evil month, we expected her to be far more bitter. But she's really not. She's rather calm. Which could be scary.

So, we hope that MamaV has a better 2009 now that February has slunk off. We also really, REALLY want to see her get back into the soap kitchen. We've scooched the coconut oil closer to the hot water pipe and it's nice and slushy...