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A Productive Vacation
I hope that everyone had a great holiday season. My family had a great time celebrating Christmas and the New Year. We had the absolute pleasure of spending New Year's Day with my brother's family. The exciting part was that Baby Adriana is home! She did not get to spend Christmas there, but she got to start the new... »
Ready or not, 2011 is here!
Has anyone gotten used to writing this year's date? I have not, but I am working on it. I hope that everyone had a safe holiday. My family was invited to visit my brother-in-law's family's ranch in Llano, Texas. It is known as the deer capital of Texas and for good reason. Thousands of deer call the area home. We saw... »
Happy New Year!
I am so excited that we are now in the year 2010. I had some discussion with friends if we should call it twenty-ten or two thousand ten. It should be mildly interesting to see how the media and therefore fellow Americans refer to the year. Why am I excited about a new year? It is the hope of something... »
Liquid Goat Milk Soap
When you make goat milk soap, the bars have to go through a process of saponification. They have to cure for 5-6 weeks before use. I have been making soap at home and trying a few different combinations of essential oils. Therefore I have several curing batches of soap at home. I read... »
Harmful Ingredients in our Soaps
The other day a good friend of mine and I were talking. She revealed to me that she had made laundry detergent from the recipe on my site. She also was concerned by the minimal amount of suds in the washing machine and thought that perhaps she was not using enough soap. We discussed several different possibilities to the lack... »
Making Goat Milk Soap
My mom came for a visit from Hawaii so I talked her into helping me in my first attempt to make soap. I had many different recipes. Unfortunately, I could not find one that I really liked so I had to be a little creative. My recipe is a combination of several different recipes. The scariest part was the chemical... »
