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Eagle Court of Honor

Posted on by Erica

We attended the Eagle Court of Honor today for three members of John’s patrol – Matthew, Jacob, and Nate.

It was a great ceremony, and Nate awarded Andy with a mentor pin.

Congratulations to these three young men on this great accomplishment!

New Pouring Technique

Posted on by Erica

I saw an Instagram reel yesterday with a new soap pouring technique and decided to give it a try.

Essentially, you tilt the mold and pour one color. Then, after that sets up, you turn the mold and repeat until the mold is full.

It took over an hour to do all the pouring, but I love the final look!

The Puzzle Box

Posted on by Erica

This puzzle box is supposed to help keep a cat’s claws trimmed. You drop in some treats, and let the cat play to get them out. We shall see if it actually works, but Jim does seem to be interested!

The White Cross Soap Experiment

Posted on by Erica

I had a soap idea stuck in my head. So, I found a cross mold on Amazon and did an experiment.

After trimming the edges of the cross, it is a reasonable first attempt at the Sigma Chi White cross.

Then, I placed the cross in my one-pound soap mold and added a predominant layer of blue soap and a smaller top layer of gold soap.

I was super excited about how it looked in the mold and was even more excited when I took the soap out of the mold. For a crazy idea, it worked pretty well, and my Sigma Chi seemed impressed with the end result.

I have things that I can improve like trimming the cross, but this is my new Sigma Chi White Cross soap. Andy has requested that I make the soap look more like the Sigma Chi flag, so I will use a half gold layer and a half blue layer next time. I love it when a soap idea comes together!