Monthly Archives: March 2012

I finally did it! I made the chocolate covered cherries swirled bath salts and bagged them. I think they look really adorable, even though the proportions look odd while I measured to be exact. The shape definitely affects the look of the contents lol. I’m hoping that because they’re small they will be easier to sell. I really look forward to making some more varieties, but definitely need help. I managed to make four by myself, but it was incredibly hard to do them by myself, so I have to wait to finish until someone helps me. If I slightly move my thumb then the salt swirls start to blend and the salts love to stick to the measuring cup, so it got interesting to keep the cone upright, not move, and scrape down the jar with a spoon while holding the cup. Yeah, notice the need for a few extra hands? Lol. And resting them in a cup lets the colors blend or the bag shuts during the pour, risking pouring salts everywhere but the cello. *rolling eyes with a bemused smile* It’s funny what odd little issues I run into while making bath/body products. 🙂 Anyway, I am so excited about these that I had to post a picture right away. *grin* Have a great day and hopefully hangover free 😉

I made huge batches of chocolate fudge and then maraschino cherry bath salts. It smells phenomenal in my kitchen and did I mention that there is actual dark cocoa powder in the fudge to color it, instead of dye? *grin* Might as well get some naturally awesome antioxidants for your skin while soaking away your troubles. I will be using the new cello bags that I got (yeah, yeah, not really new since it’s been at least a month since I received them, but never used them yet, so they’re still new). I think that swirls of the two in the cello cones will look very color and the combo will be like chocolate covered cherries. *smile* So awesome! I intended to make half the amount of cherry, but wasn’t paying attention and used the same recipes as for the fudge batch. Lol. Oops. I’ll just have to wait until I get more dead sea salts to make some neopolitan blend. Yum! Also going to make some spa, as well. I haven’t figured out what else I want, since I definitely don’t want a mess of salts un-purchased and unsellable at the end of the season yet again. I really think that these will look so much better than the jars and will sell better since they’re going to be smaller, therefore cheaper, than the jarred salts. So exciting!! I can’t decide if I like the smell of these, or the corned beef that’s cooking, the best. *grin* Happy St. Patrick’s Day and I hope you all have safe celebrations today!!

Lol. I think my watermelon sorbet dinos turned out pretty well. They help ease the sting of the bummer previously mentioned. The pterodactyl looks a little odd IMO, but I’ll go with what the company said he’s suppose to be 😉 Regardless they all smell wonderful and richly colored. I’m happy that they turned out so well, since two will get put into the boys summer combo. Yay!

Lol. I think my watermelon sorbet dinos turned out pretty well. They help ease the sting of the bummer previously mentioned. The pterodactyl looks a little odd IMO, but I’ll go with what the company said he’s suppose to be 😉 Regardless they all smell wonderful and richly colored. I’m happy that they turned out so well, since two will get put into the boys summer combo. Yay!

Awhile back I had excitedly found a plastic mold of fairy tale carriages. Unfortunately it’s a lollipop mold, so at the base of each is the space for a stick. I thought that if I made a blockage of playdoh at the base of each carriage, in the stick area, and let them fully dry for a few days, that it would solve the problem. Um, quite a bummer when I finally poured some soaps and sat down to bag them after they had set up. My soap was too hot in two of them and the playdoh actually melted a bit, then mixed into the bottom of the soap a bit. Although I had planned on shaving the little nub with my xacto knife, I ended up having to shave up the base a little to remove the doh. What a disappointment! My carriage bases have a belly button. Ugh! The third…*sigh* I’ll use to practice painting on I suppose. This must have been the first that I poured, the hottest, because I spotted thick spots of playdoh almost at the carriage door, when held to light. I guess that I’ll make the blocks further down and have a bit of extra waste to shave off. It sounds so simple, but when you have to measure so precisely and figure up costs per every milliliter, that makes me have to be more irritatingly precise than normal. *wrinkling nose* I’m all ready a bit of a stuffed shirt, so I hate to go even further in that direction. Lol. Anyway, that’s enough about my bummer. That is, until I post a pic of whatever horrid results of my first attempt at soap painting look like. *grin*

I got my card reader in the mail today (*sigh* yesterday really) and think it’s so cute. *grin* The only downside is that it doesn’t secure fully with my case on my iPhone, so I’ll have to remove my case for events. Meh. The coolest part was playing with the app. I have managed to refrain from messing with it until I connected the reader, since it is a plug and play device, and I’ve had issues with apps after jumping the gun. Anyway, I get the app and reader acquainted, then started to explore. I get to enter all of my product codes, descriptions, and prices, so that when I run a transaction I just select the items in the order. Love it!! I really dislike having to enter every detail on every line or not having the items listed, so this just tickles me happy. I all ready slid my credit card acceptance sticker into my tabletop frame with my collection agency’s sticker. I ~might~ be a little excited. *grin* So I’m doing a tedious task that I love – data entry. Lol. I figured I’d take a little break to post a few pics while playing Top Shot 😉