Going Through Life One Blog Post at a Time
In honor of the Western Illinois University Women’s Basketball team making the NCAA tournament, it is “Leatherneck Love” Lavender Lemon soap! Of course, it could also be “Kewpie Love” for you Hickman High School alumni. Go Leathernecks!
And, for extra fun, I made a Lavender Creamsicle Sugar Scrub.
Who knew that melt and pour soap could get me started on making all these fun, different things? I love it, and I always feel so much more relaxed when I get creative.
Three more bags of clothes have been removed from my closet. There is no gaining weight back now as I have no larger clothes left.
John had a busy day at what is probably his last Troop 706 campout. He helped chop wood for the fire.
He made his trail meal for the Cooking merit badge, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that he chose a Macaroni and Cheese recipe.
He wrapped up the night leading the Campfire program for the Communication merit badge.
He has six merit badges to finish, but he is nearly done with three of them. It is a race to the finish to earn the Eagle rank.
I guess Jim is going camping too…
I think it is amazing that Laura and her best friends from high school always try to get together when all four are in town. Tonight, they enjoyed dinner together and then played some Dungeons & Dragons.
I woke up way too early this morning and decided to finish the rest of the candles.
The blue is dark orchard; the brown in the white ceramic jar is warm vanilla sugar; and the brown in the clear jar is Cinnamon Chai. I also had some wax left over from the warm vanilla sugar, so I made wax melts.
This has been fun! I see more wickless candles and wax melts in my future.
I bought a candle making starter kit, so that Laura and I could make wickless candles for our candle warmer lamps while she is home on Spring Break.
I also bought two extra bags of wax, some colorants, and different containers in case we wanted something different than the clear containers that came with the kit. We had a lot of fun tonight making the first four candles, and it was relatively easy. The bags that the wax comes in are heat safe. Basically, you warm the bag in a large stock pot over medium-low heat and periodically remove it from the pot to gently tilt it side-to-side to fully melt the wax.
Once the wax is melted and reaches about 185 degrees F, you unzip the top of the bag and add in your fragrance oil and colorant. We mixed “Apple Element” fragrance oil with a yellow colorant, and “Stress Relief” fragrance oil with a sage green colorant.
Then, you tilt it side-to-side again to fully mix the fragrance oil and colorant. Finally, pour into the containers. We were able to make two candles for each set of jars.
While the finished candles could end up with holes or bubbles, it does not matter. It was fun to do this with Laura. We still have three bags of wax left for six more candles! Up next will be Cinnamon Chai, Dark Orchard, and Warm Vanilla Sugar.
