We were both busy and I am so glad PC is handy with many things.
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| Some reinforcing of wobbly legs, regluing and the dining table is serviceable again. |
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| After repairing the aircon it needed to be placed back at the craftroom. |
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| This freebie, courtesy of the local Gumtree site, will be great storage in the woodwork room with all those little drawers. |
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| Just a little light gardening renovation from here...... |
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| ......to there, until we sell some and rearrange the remainder.
My sewing machines that were serviced and repaired. The Janome QC wasn't serviced properly last time but it's all fine now. The Decor missed the picture parade as it just needed a quick clean. A little free advertising for the serviceman Neil Bunter (0429471751) as he did a champion job fixing the machines. When I had the EzyLock serviced, years ago, another repairer told me to use it till it was skipping stitches too much then throw it out!
Thanks Neil.
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My latest acquisition: a used Yamato 5 thread industrial overlocker. Just needed a really good clean and some lubrication. Neil told me to become used to the feed with waste fabric, until I could safely manage it, before starting practice with 3 threads and building up to all 5. The running speed is so fast the parts become a smudge not a blur! Makes the Janome domestic overlocker look positively slow.
The last few days I made a different tallow based soap and this time I included Bramble Berry Pumpkin Lager scent. Of course I had to make it a lager looking soap, with a head, for the loaf mold. These cakes will be for gifts while the scented heart and cake shapes will be for our use. It's still a little soft 4 days later but there's 200g Sweet almond oil and the same amount of Olive Oil in it, for moisturising purposes, so I expect it to harden much more as it matures. It smells divine. :)
These little beauties have been growing and ripening for weeks now and I will be seed saving so I can grow some in the future. I think I eat more when weeding and watering than I do at other times.
That's all for now folks!
Cheers,
RobynLouise xo
You have been busy. Soap looks wonderful pity no smellovision. Landscaping with rocks been there done that, pity I couldn't bring the really large sandstone rock with us.
ReplyDeleteVery pleased with the soap. It costed out to $0.41/100gm or 51c/125g cake which is the commercial average. The rocks were left by the previous owners when PC bought the place. I'm developing a permaculture garden and some will stay, and some will go, as it progresses. I have a huge moss covered rock you can lay on if you want to come collect it. It only weighs about a tonne!
ReplyDeleteSo happy you got those machines fixed.....how dare you be told to throw it out Pfft!
ReplyDeleteI hate waste and I have an attachment to that machine, as it was my first, and has sewed many of my kids clothes. There's one more machine to go that needs specialised work he can't do.
ReplyDeleteRobyn it is amazing how the fragrance oils darken the soap if they have vanilla in them. Some without vanilla are available from Brambleberry so I should have a look and see which ones they are.
ReplyDeleteChel, I'm thinking of swirling some other colours through the next batch if this one doesn't set too dark. Even if I just do titanium dioxide to make white patterns through it.
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