Archive for November, 2009

slowing my roll

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Wrapping soap

I spilled a 60ml beaker of peppermint oil on the kitchen counter tonight.

I was rushing. Rushing to make a batch of soap.

That latter sentence is an oxymoron. The idea of handmade soap is to take one’s time.

To enjoy the chemistry, the magic.

But time is running short. I have bars to wrap and labels to make. I’m writing the labels by hand, or at least one for each type of soap.

Then I’ll scan them and duplicate them into A4 one sheet in Photoshop.

And hopefully find a printer next week who can copy them. It’ll be a rush job, but a slow rush job. The deadline to deliver this order is fast approaching.

And I’ve run out of paper to wrap the cinnamon soap bars.

But all of this will have to wait.

There’s laundry to finish tonight (the nice old lady on the top floor has asked for my wash day tomorrow, but I usually do my laundry on the Sunday before my wash day anyway so it will have time to dry all day on Monday – my normal wash day. Very non-Swiss, I know. I’m a rebel.)

Then I’ll shower and sink into nice clean white sheets.

late night action

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

i’m making peppermint soap. my flat smells like a mojito.:-)

fall is here

Friday, November 6th, 2009

leonhardshalde

bike

six

traveling soaps

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Poppy Cinnamon Soap

Three cinnamon poppy soaps on their way to France.