Kyle’s girlfriend Kelcie has been staying with us these past couple of days and has been just tons of help for us to get ready for the Irish Fest in town. But now it’s Sunday and I’ve promised her that we’d make some soap for her to bring back to New York. Now before you think that I roped her into this, SHE is the one who wanted to do it. And honestly how cool is that with someone wanting to do this? Yup this is my second ‘class’ that I’ll be having.
OK, now it’s not like I’ve got a waiting list for people to hang out with me or anything, but it’s kinda fun to see the different types of soap that can be made. And this time I was a little nervous because we were going to make 3 batches at once! Holy Smokes!! This is like living on the edge and I sure was hoping that it was going to work. I mean sending Iowa soap to New York you want it to work right?
Once we found out which fragrances and materials we were going to add to the soap we was ready. To me this is the hardest part of the job. I’m getting quite a collection so to find just the perfect one is what you want to do. And after we had the right amount of fragrances measured – one of them ended up leaking out of the plastic glass that it was in. What a bummer!!
Now to get to work. I was pretty nervous but as the whole process progressed – my uneasiness started to go away.
At the very end of the afternoon, she had made an oatmeal-milk-honey soap with ground up oatmeal in the bars, an orange poppyseed soap, and the last one was a wildflower and honey soap with flower petals in it. Yup, what a successful day we all had! Now to just to figure out a time to get it all cut.