Showing posts with label lotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lotion. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2009

snake to start the day?

watered the overgrown vege garden this morning

by hand

picked tonights dinner

had 2 coffees, washed and hung out tablecloths for this weekends market stalls, got 2 batches of castile and shampoo i made yesterday into their 30 litre dilution pots,

got lids on 70 foot balm, 40 jarrah lip balm and 40 balm for baby bottoms.........................then cleared the decks for lotion orders that came in unexpectedly this morning....
yippee!...........................then!

i heard the doglets warning bark! which means...COME AND LOOK SOMEONE!... RIGHT NOW!!!!...........................................yes, it IS a shouting bark, continuous, short, deep wooooffs : )
so i went to find him............out the back of the Shed, he was looking pointedly, but at a distance of half a metre, at the compost i have under black plastic, so with caution i picked up the handy hoe, pushed the bricks off and lifted up the plastic! ..........and sure enough there was a beautiful young dugite, its a bit late in the year, but it was warm and sunny today and there are lots of mice about

so we (the dog and me) called for assistance from the other half, collected various utensils for catching and bagging to take away elsewhere....i was sceptical about this part......especially as i was asked to hold the bag open?????......but by the time we got back it had slipped away to somewhere else in the vege patch, so i didnt get a photo to show you : (
i nicked this one from here! because its the same coulour
it reappeared at the other end of the garden 30 metres away about an hour later, and went under some large pot plants that unfortunately havent been weeded around since spring, so i suppose thats another job to add to the list for me and the dog on the weekend while the other half does markets on his own.

so after another coffee and a sit down we went back to the 'big kitchen' to start making 60 lotions for orders and 100 for stock, and its now 9pm and there is one batch of 60 left to bottle!
phew!!............ what a day! perhaps i will warm them up and bottle in the morning

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

the 'lab'

the glamourous bit

what i should have been doing instead of etsy
catching up with making stock and orders..... today made:
56 rose geranium lotions
83 rose hip creams
30 litres castile hand and shower gel
30 litres bulk hair conditioner
57 blue chamomile lotions


the essential oil stash

the cooking of the castile......
usually 6-10 hours in a double boiler

the product at everest base camp with a customer...gasp!!
....what a thrill to see this !!
they thought to do this for me ???
when they were at mt everest ?????
made me feel i was there too when they gave me this photo

the vinegar label against my green kitchen wall
yes...i do like green

the buttons i bought from mr wiccked
will have to knit something this winter
to put them on...

maybe something green...?
the same colour as this hat i made last winter?

thanks to innerearthsoaps for my first sale on etsy!