We are going through quite a bit of change at the moment at work as they have no money and are looking at cutting back and doing a "review" to try and save $$$. They need a new pool and overhead bridge and some other expensive project, but can't fund it. There have been a couple of redundancies last week. They will be looking at our area in the new year, so fingers crossed I will still have a job...................?
Courtney, Jemma's sister, her horse had its foal 2 weeks ago. Willow had a little boy foal and his name is Rork. He is so cute............
Here he is 1 day old
So cute
He is a little terror and is jumping around (kicking his mum!!).
The kids had some fun
Michael enjoyed an icecream YUM
We went to a party. It was raining but the kids still had a great time.
Lots of yard work as we have had a lot of rain and then warm, hot days
We are planning to put a hand rail up early next year so we can block the awning off.
The chook pen and some flowers for summer
The passionfruit on the chook pen has lots of flowers - hopefully that means lots of passionfruit!
Greg gave Squishy a shave so she is a lot cooler now
I have been making a bit of soap. I really enjoy it and am trying my hand a different sorts. I have come up with my own recipe which I think is moisturising and lovely. I think I might make another blog about the soap soon. I am going to give some away for Chrissie pressies (and we use a lot of it).
Here is some:
The back one is non fragranced. They have red clay in them which is lovely for skin, under eye circles and broken capillaries. They are very moisturising and have a beautiful bubbly lather!!
The front soap is Sleigh Ride swirl. It is a minty smelling fragrance which is fresh and very Christmas (or maybe a bit toothpaste?? haha). It is a mint green colour. I'm still waiting for this one to cure before we use it. It smells nice, but not as yummy as Pomegranate.
The back soap is a lavendar soap with a black line. This soap is nice but I don't like the black line that I made. I used cocoa powder and I find it goes brown in the shower. I should have used a mica to do the line but had heard of sucess from others in using cocoa, however I don't like it. I think I will rebatch this one into something else.
I made this one tonight. It is Woodland Elves. It is a goats milk soap - my first try at a goats milk soap. The fragrance smells a bit like pine'o'clean sadly, but I hope as it cures it will smell better (a bit too piney at the moment). I did a red, green and white swirl AND then realised I forgot the fragrance!!! Holy Crapoly - I was going to do the fancy top (as you can see) so I quickly added some fragrance to that left over soap and then did the top swirl. Fingers crossed it will be ok.
I have ordered some more fragrances from a site that you can give feedback on. I picked some popular ones with good feedback (and that I thought would appeal to me) so I hope I have more sucess in fragrance selection, although I have my taste and I'm sure others have theirs - we are all different!!!
We have a Halloween party tomorrow!!! Should be a blast.
Have a great month...................
Rach
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Fingers crossed for your job x What have you done to poor Squishy?? That is such a funny photo, the expression on the face made me laugh out loud :D The soaps look good enough to eat :D
ReplyDeleteswallow's nest in an edible gel form is supposed be good for the skin too. it gives that clear and pasty skin that we all love.
ReplyDeleteit's mad expensive. my brother and i bought some for my mom for her birthday. it was like 400 bucks for like a 6-8 oz jar. Luckily we finally found the one of popular brand online (hongkong-bird-nest.50webs.com/index_e.htm and http://www.euyansang.com/)
dad said it's really popular in indonesia. that a guy has to climb a high mountain to get the nest. that's why it's so expensive.
i mean why doesn't the dude just look for the fabled korean swallow king, capture it and let it lay eggs full of gold! then, he wouldn't have to work so hard and climb them high mountains.