class in 1/2 hour

[2eclipse]

but in the meantime i have had tremendous fun running an over-the-phone scene with matt (aka. james connor)and making soap....which has turned an interesting orange-brown color. it will be interesting to see how it looks when it is cured. the goat's milk has a tendancy to change color when combined with lye, but newly mixed soap is always darker than the final product. it may be a nice cream color by the time it is done.
i hope.
if not i will be experimenting more with adding colorants.
it has been a long time.

things are quiet this week.
my parents are gone this week on a cruise on a tall-ship. can i tell you how many shades of green i am turning?
they are starting off in barbados.
one of my fondest dreams is to crew on a tall-ship. not a cruiser, designed to cater to vacationers, but one of the old, wooden ones.

Comments

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

You make your own soap?
Yowza.
Not gotten that far myself, yet. Although it has been on my list of things to figure out how to do since I started having horrible reactions to things like the ingredient cloaked in the mystery of the ages.... "Fragrance."

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i've been making my own soap for about six years now. i like it much better than the store-bought stuff. it feels softer, is gentler and smells like whatever i want it to.
i got into soap-making when my ex-fiance left me and i needed some new hobbies. got into herbal medicine a bit too, though i only play with safe things like making candied ginger and ginger honey(a by-product of the former) for upset stomachs and the like.
making soap is fun and mostly safe. if you live anywhere nearby i'd be happy to teach you.

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

I love ginger. Saved my rear when I was sick. Might not have kept everything down, but it helped me keep enough down.

Sadly, direct lessons wouldn't be plausible - but I'll take whatever datum you can give me. I love creation, with my hands or my mind, and I'm always looking for more things to add to the inventory of random skills. I think there's some part of my head that wants to learn everything - and while I know that's patently impossible, the attempt is fascinating

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

where do you live?

i will be happy to overload you with soaping information. are you on librarything? if you check out my account (either eclipse or 2eclipse, i can't remember which), you will be able to see all my soaping books(which is where i learned how to do it). there are a couple of lj soaping communities, but in my experience they suck.
soaping is an enjoyable process and very satisfying, but my motivation is less sane than yours. i'm a bit paranoid about war, especially with our current administration. i make a point of learning skills that would be useful if we wound up without any infrastructure. i want to learn to hunt and butcher my kill for this same reason - only i'm terribly squeamish and am going to have to learn not to pass out first.