GENERAL UPDATE
After a tough day on the milk rounds, Saturday AM and having bank holiday off I’v been trying to make the most of my two nights off in a row, as it wont be happening very often. So, today I set about, sorting out my crafting room tonight I have made some great progress with the website, for about a week now I’v been banging my head against the wall while trying to put menus up, that didn’t link to the blog I started last week. Thanks to Tyson and his soothing snoring noises, while passed out next to me I’v figured out why, and what I was doing wrong. Who knew a lazy cat curled next to me on the bed, could inspire such a breakthrough. Also thank you very much to Dayle @ NW Designs for telling me how to do the thing I was stuck on, but somehow, it still felt like a mission to actually understand what he was trying to tell me. He has been nothing but amazing helping me through this journey of building this website.
BEEKEEPING
Kind of unrelated but tomorrow I will be going to my beehive in the nearby village, I have no bees in there as they died over winter, however iv had a very very kind offer of a nuc of bees and in return I will be donating some soaps for him to sell and put towards his just giving page fund raising cause. I will post a link once I find my phone so people have the chance to see the cause and if they want to they can also help him reach his goal! So I will once again soon enough have my own bees again. Something I am over the moon with! I will once iv sorted out the hive and the soap be making some little videos of my soap making but I will include a hopefully weekly blog of my beekeeping activities, for those that are interested I will look into sending this off as a weekly newsletter with photos. You might even be treated to photos of the Tyson and Bruno AKA The Terror Twins. But I promise the Bees will be the main topic 🙂
SOAPING PROGRESS
So as far as soap news goes, I am still working on getting my assessments put through, but I’m aiming to have that sorted by the end of this week! Which now that I’v sussed the website a bit better it should be easier to concentrate on sorting out the assessments. So I am planning on getting 16 different scents of the liquid soaps, these will be a mixture of both essential oil blends and then there will be a selection of ones made with fragrance oils too. The ones containing Essential Oils wont be dyed as I want to keep them as natural as possible. The salt soap bar assessment is now with me printed off and i just need to put the finishing touches on the labels and then place them on the EU portal to finally make them completely legal, they are currently on my curing selves. Along with the liquid soap assessments I will also be sending off 8 different scents for my own recipe soap bars, there will be 16 of these in total but 8 will be coloured with fun bright colours, and 8 will be as natural as possible while containing the same Essential Oils and Blends as the bright and fun 8, so this selection wont be dyed in any kind of way the only variety of colour you will see will be from the grade of olive oil i decide to use at time of making that particular batch! It will also made to include, raw honey from my own hive or other local raw honey should I run out of my own, and local cows milk from D&E Monks farm Based in Parbold, West Lancashire.
I have some stock of melts in little sample bags which have 4 little heart melts in, Deli Pots, I have some but quite limited clamshells too. however once all my soap assessment is out of the way I will be making and testing my candles in tins but I do have some stock of votive Candles
