Ah yes, knitted olives. Possibly the most pointless thing I have ever knitted. Their redeeming quality is that it took minutes to make each olive. Great for when you get tired of bigger projects and need a break, though.
This picture is kind of weird, I couldn't get the light to work with me. But, this is what the olives are doing right now. Sitting in a martini glass on a table. Totally pointless.
By the way, I tried to fix the extra header but I don't know how to. When I go into layout and page settings there is no option for deleting page elements. I did edit the header that should not be there, but that changed both headers. Why can't it just be an easy fix?
Also, I made soap. Soap from scratch, with lye and coconut oil. In hindsight, I probably should have done a little more research than I did before jumping right into soapmaking because I don't think I did it right. The research I did do recommended using an immersion blender to mix the soap because that way it only takes about 15 minutes, while if you mix by hand with a whisk it takes at least an hour. Well, I don't have an immersion blender so I mixed with a whisk. My arm got tired after the first hour so I quit. The next morning the soap was thick and perfect so I poured it into my mold (metal baking sheet thing with plastic bag lining). I let it cure for a couple of weeks and took a vegetable peeler to each bar to smooth out the edges, which then made a thin layer of the skin on my hands peel off. Nice, right? I haven't touched the soap since then, which has probably been about three months now. I think there was too much lye and not enough of everything else. From now on I think I will go to Michael's and buy the melt and pour stuff they have. That way I can keep that layer of skin on my hands.
5 comments:
That's some extremely exfoliating soap! I think you should throw a couple of goats in the backyard and make goat's milk soap.
If they are cashmere goats I could make soap, yarn and cheese. Sounds like the perfect pet to me.
And I bet that they would love the pool!
You know, I've heard that about goats. Maybe I could train the goats like those dogs that dive into the water. It would be the Purina Incredible Goat Challenge.
You could charge admission to the Goat Challenge and make even more money. Genius!
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