Cookies !!

 the first 'baking' I have done for about 10 years.

an inexpensive ready mix, just add butter and water.. except I use milk instead of water. 

12 minutes in the oven and just crispy outside and soft in the middle. perfect. 

they are very sweet though, so not able to eat them all at once ... lol

Steve Noonan, the Nina Demos - Buy For Me the Rain

the simplest version of this I have heard. I love it. 

I was gifted a box of cd's to play in the car. one cd had this song as a live version. so on getting home did a youtube search and found the published hit version. as usual youtube will throw in extras which turned up this version. 

Garden Cat

 Beans in todays garden, a wet windy day. She wasn't out for very long. 

I'm not as comfortable using the camera as I used to be, so easy just to snap away on your phone. This isn't quite in focus, using the display rather than the viewfinder, think I need to lean it on my head to get it steady... lol...  or is it the age of the camera not working quite properly. 

Age, another thing, mine... it hurts my eyes to use the viewfinder, giving me  a headache. I don't wear glasses for normal day to day things, but do for reading now. 

making soap as a hobby

 

melt and pour soap. using clear and white soaps.

 

 

various colours  using mica, some glitter

added Beans for interest, how sweet is she sleeping !! awake she bites... lol

again more mica colours, this one using all clear soap.

oh, also all each soap batch I did had a different fragrance, some essential oils, some fragrance oils. 

my tutuorials came from YouTube, just look up 'Melt and Pour Soap Making' and you will find a thousand videos... lol

 

Happy Solstice !!

 

I always look forward to this day, and that we will start to get lighter longer days. I suffer from Seasonal Affected Disorder, SAD  ==  due to not getting enough light, this year was such a dull summer too, so I started to use my Bruer light in the mornings in September !! The light is on for about 20 minutes in the morning while I have my first cup of tea.

some science....

making candles as a hobby

pouring candles

watching them start to set up

nearly cured here

four lovely candles. Two for  me, two were gifted.

I get my supplies from Candle Shack, as they are not too far away to collect from and save postage. 

Wax is EU464. Fragrance oils are Warm Woods and Cashmere and Enchanted Forest.
 

wax melts

the fragrance oil to make candles comes in 50g bottles... I use 44g to make two candles which leaves just a little bit in the bottle.... what to do with it? so I decided on wax melts. also used a little bit of colour in the wax for the first time.

and here they are, the next morning, popped out of the moulds. I will be gifting them as I don't use wax melts. and for future candle making I will just straight away use the little bit up making wax melts. otherwise all these little bottles sit about taking up space. 

GW 494 wax and  fragrance oils are from Candle Shack . I used Cucumber and Melon, Warm Woods and Cashmere, Enchanted Forest. 

the colours are left over from the first candle kit I used, and the moulds were gifted to me.