Recent content by Taiin

Chuckwagon, that is an awesome way to make salt soaps! I bet those smell amazing, it looks great. Melana, definitely could have chosen worse things to get into. Soap making is rather tame! And as Yooper mentioned, it certainly results in nice skin. I wasted some beer this weekend by...

I think I'm going to stick with individual cavity molds for salt soaps in the future. I love big, hand cut bars, but I unmolded and cut this while it was only a couple hours old. Still warm, managed to break some bars. Ingredients: Coconut oil, coarse kosher salt, goat's milk, NaOH, white...

I have definitely ruined a batch of salt soap by waiting too long to unmold it and cut. I did that quite recently, actually! Thankfully it still works wonderfully, despite not being very pretty. I am sure I could call it "rustic" and that would be fine, hah!

No pictures yet, but I just made a new batch of salt soap. It is made with goat's milk and white sugar (just 1 tsp ppo). I used Lemon Creme fragrance oil from Bulk Apothecary, and it smells divine. I love using fresh, fruity scents with salt soaps. Whipping air into soap isn't bad! Some...

These are my soaps I made for Christmas gifts. I only send the prettiest bars out, the ones that don't look nice stay at home for family use. Some need to be cleaned up a bit, like the overflow trimmed off, then they'll be good. Everyone who I send the soap to is already chomping at the bit for...

ALL men need to learn how to pee sitting down. When you are 90+, ill, and weak as a kitten, you are not standing to pee while in the hospital. So many elderly men that barely can hold themselves in a sitting position insist on trying to stand to urinate. I know patient satisfaction is important...

I never understood why people aren't nice to IT people. Because you guys are awesome. Or the people who expect you guys to fix personal, non work related computer or technology issues or free or a very low fee.

Haha, I know I try to not be that person when having to contact something tech support because I know you guys deal with a lot of frustrations each day. I work a night shift, so unless a failure is catastrophic and affects a lot of important things, it waits until morning. By then I've usually...

Nigerian Dwarf milk has about 6-8% fat on average. The most for any dairy breed of goat, apparently. It definitely adds some extra superfat to a recipe. If only it separated as easily as cows milk so one could get cream for butter. But that is what a cream separator is for :D If you're ever...

Well, The Safehouse is s cool bar. Kinda overpriced, but if you're into espionage stuff at all, worth it! Knowing the password (my lips are sealed) is helpful to get in, but not required. You just have to gain entry through...different means!

I think sealing mead with beeswax would be an great look for mead in clear wine bottles. Wax from bees would compliment the fermented honey from bees!

Starting to play Witcher: Wild Hunt. The graphics are so gorgeous! Gotta get used to the gameplay, though. I've been playing a lot of Skyrim recently.

Pretty much my thoughts on pregnancy and children.

I know a lot of metal lovers seem to dislike Nightwish, but I am pumped to see them next year. I bought tickets for my sister and I. I used to steal all of her CDs, mostly metal and whatnot, but some others in the mix. I don't even know what is on my 80gb worth of music on my harddrive anymore...