Passions I can't deny
Posted in Cleaning, crafts, soap making, tutorials on Mar 28th, 2010
Before I review our three soaps that have cured and we are using, I wanted to let you know that I won a $25 gift certificate from Majestic Mountain Sage for submitting our Lavender Goat Milk soap in their milk soap challenge. Here is my entry on their blog. Pretty exciting! Can’t wait to order [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Mar 24th, 2010
Yesterday I took a stroll around Happy Acres to see what has changed since the rains came. I was hoping I’d see some asparagus peaking up through the soil. Last year this time, they showed themselves and we picked our first harvest on the 25th. But last year everything seemed to be early from dogwoods [...]
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Mar 22nd, 2010
This procedure was a little trickier than the others because of the small amount of water and adding the goat milk. There are several different ways to handle milk in soapmaking. After lots of research I decided to try the method that I felt was the easiest.
Please refer to the cold process instructions here. The [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening on Mar 19th, 2010
Well, I missed posting green on St. Patty’s Day, but thought I’d share with you some of the green (and purple and yellow) I found today at Happy Acres.
I’ve never grown this allium before. One of my master gardener friend had the schubertii in her yard last year and I fell in love with it. [...]
This week for our HB in Five Bread Challenge we made two great breads – Avocado-Guacamole Bread and Pesto Pine Nut Bread.
Both of these were great breads – easy and fun to make. Unlike the others in the group, I have just been making buns because that’s what we like to eat with soup, salads [...]
On my last post I talked about how blessed we are with blackberries. I will be making that Blackberry Syrup in the next couple of weeks, but just thinking about that made me hungry for Blackberry Cobbler. So I made one yesterday.
The recipe comes from one of my old cookbooks. This cobbler is simple and [...]
Now that the season will soon be upon us I need to move some blackberries out of that prime real estate known as the freezer. Last year I found a way to use up some of those blackberries by making Blackberry Syrup which we enjoyed all summer long. I’m writing about this now since the [...]
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 7th, 2010
Below you will find our recipe. I’ve included the percentages so if you want to make a bigger batch, you can enter these numbers into the calculator.
A note with dealing with lye. Caution needs to be taken when using this. We open our kitchen window to give the room ventilation during the soap making, even [...]
Posted in Cleaning, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 5th, 2010
Nothing makes me happier than a bargain. The other day on my way out of the local grocery store, there sat a bag of used coffee grounds next to the bag recycling bin. Above the bag was a sign: FREE for your compost, worm garden, or roses. Well, of course I can’t pass up a [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 3rd, 2010
With another Writing Your Story class completed, I am still thinking about all of our life stories that need to be told, if not for ourselves, for those we leave behind.
Every day I seem to run into something that tells my story. Just like the other day while cleaning a closet I found these five [...]
