Last night my highschool friend Judy and her daughter and my son and I went to my old highschool's homecoming game. Judy and I have been going for the last 2 or 3 years so it's sorta become a tradition now. It's always fun to go back there and relive memories in my mind of all the football games I attended while in highschool. Now I'm going to date myself.....ready......it was almost 30 years ago. Yep, I was class of 1980, a great year!! I had some really good times in highschool going to games, pep rally's and dances. The music of the 70's was the best! I just can't believe that time has flown by so incredibly fast. I now have a son who will be going to highschool next year. My baby is growing up so fast....the time has just whizzed by. I can scarcely believe that within 3 short years I will hit 50!!! OMG! I still feel like I'm in my 20's (in my mind anyways-my body tells me otherwise ;-)). We won the game last night. We totally smeared the opposing team. I mean really, we had 4 touchtowns already in just the first quarter!!! And it rained sporadically throughout the night so it was pretty much....umbrella's open...umbrella's closed.....umbrella's open....umbrella's closed....you get the idea. We had a really good time anyways. Judy and I thought that we would see some fellow classmates from our class because on Facebook they said they were coming but sadly we didn't. Oh well, there's always next year.

Today was a beautiful crisp fall day. Nicholas went with his friend to an apple orchard to pick apples and make apple cider. I took Scully to the Vet where he got some more shots. When I came home I had planned on going to one of the many festivals going on around town but decided not to. What's the point when you can't spend any money right? So I stayed at home doing nothing. I had planned on making some soap and that didn't happen. I was feeling mighty lazy and sort of blue...don't know why. It was just ....one of THOSE days. I'm sure you all have had them.

I have a couple of new pics of my dear puppy Scully (one with my dear son) I thought I'd share with everyone. They were taken a couple of days ago.

My newest creations. I made some really fun Sugar Scrubs yesterday and used a fragrance called Cake Bake. Last night Nick was doing his homework sitting right next to my sugar scrubs. He said to me "mommy, you have to move those somewhere else because they smell soooo good I want to eat one!" I tried one and they're the bomb! Here they are:



I also made some nice soap with Hawaiin Rain fragrance, and while they smell awesome, the color weirded out on me yet again. Sooooo frustrating!! I wanted orange but instead got yellow on the inside and orange on the outside. Weird huh?




So there you have it, my learning experiences are far from over when it comes to soapmaking. That's the fun of it though, experimenting to your heart's desire! ;-)

Just found an old pic of me

It’s amazing what old age will do to a person.  Was looking through some old pics and came across this pic of me at 27.  Gosh those were the good old days!  I surely miss being in my 20’s, they were the best times of my life.  I was young, healthy, thin!!, and happy.  I personally think marriage is overrated.  But motherhood, that is the very best!!  My son is my everything!  Now if I could just go back to my twenties with my son then I’d be a very happy girl.  I know, wishful thinking….  I’m just not happy about growing old.  It really sucks!

 

My latest soaps-Lemon Verbena with Forbidden Fruit

These soaps actually came out pretty. The colors didn't freak on me however I had problems with ash as usual. Hate that stuff!! So I chopped of the tops and made the scraps into little balls for some future project down the road. I'm happy with the way they turned out. Here's some pics:

Ocean City day trip

Nicholas and I went on a trip to Ocean City on Monday, August 24, 2009. We had a really fun time. He got to do a lot of swimming in the ocean, we walked and perused many of the nice shops, we ate some good food (thrashers fries, yummm!!!) and did some people watching. The weather was perfect and all was well. By the time we were ready to leave at 9pm we were both beat from spending the entire day in the sun. But ohhhh, it was worth it. Here are some pics from our lovely day together!

Nick and I in the Ocean City Sunshine


Thirsty boy!


Nick sporting his new hat, SMOKIN.......


What a lovely profile!!


Just comin out of the freezing water....brrrrr


Me....the whale


Such a hunk!


Lookin good

My other soap

Well, here's the other soap from the other night. I promised to post the pic so here it is, scented with Forbidden Fruit:


Fruitopia


This blog is serving to be my journal of my soapmaking journey. I want to be able to go back to see how far I've come. It will also serve as a journal for life-changing events and daily occurences that I feel compelled to journal about.

Some New Soaps

I hadn't soaped in a couple of weeks so I made 2 batches last night. 1 with "monkey farts" fragrance which sort of smells like fruit/candy so I think I'll name this soap "Candyland". The other batch I made with a scent called forbidden fruit so I think I'll name that one "Fruitopia". I only have pics of Candyland right now. Will cut Fruitopia tomorrow and post pics then. Here's candyland.....not great pics but you get the idea....

Here's the soap uncut:



Here's the soap cut:

The start of my time-off

Howdy folks. Today, Monday, August 10, 2009 starts a new phase in my life. Very shortly, after a short stint telecommuting for the World Bank until end of November, I will no longer be staff there. Hooray, yipee, hip,hip,hooray, woohoo!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell I am happy about this new development? I am elated yet apprehensive because now comes a time that I will have to look for new work and that may prove to be very difficult but with God on my side I know I'll be fine.

This has been a long time in coming. I've been wanting it for 20 years. I've never felt that I was a good fit there. So my life starts anew.....woohoo! I'm on vacation for the month of August so I'll have time to spend with my son Nicholas and time for making some soap. I'll try and document the days so as to have a journal to look back on. Scully, our new labradoodle, is doing just great. He has his good days and his bad, naughty days (pees all over) but overall he's doing amazingly well. He's such a sweety ya can't help but fall in love with him. Today he got to meet a black cat named panther and got so excited that he had a potential playmate that he started chasing after the cat and scared it half to death. He just wanted to play ;-)

Take care all, I'll be back soon.

A Soapin weekend

I hadn't made any soap in quite some time, about 4 weeks and was feeling the yearning so I made 2 batches yesterday. One came out great! A manly soap scented with Aspen Forest for my husband and son. It smells lovely and even looks quite nice with swirlies and all. The second batch remains to be seen. It was scented with Creme Brulee which naturally turns the soap brown. I colored a small bit of soap with pink and left it unscented. I don't really like the way it smells but I'm hoping it'll change or grow on me. If it doesn't then I may use it as doggie soap, who knows. Anyways, here are some pics....




an up close of the swirlies


Creme Brulee Squared


Creme Brulee Round

Scully

Well folks, we finally did it, we added a new member to our family, a beautiful black labradoodle puppy which we've named Scully. Nicholas and I drove down to North Carolina, a 3 1/2 hour drive, to pick him up on July 4, 2009. He is very frightened and doesn't move around much. I'm guessing he is still not sure what happened. And he must miss his brothers and all the other dogs that surrounded him at the breeders house. I hope that with time he'll get over all this and be happy with us. We've only had him for 1 day be already we love the little guy! Here are a couple of pics of him. I'll get better ones in the future.