Soap and chairs, newest projects to show off ...

Here is a picture of the old caned chair with the honeycomb patterning and what appears to be someone's foot had gone through it. The second picture is the chair after having recained it. You cant see it in this picture, but I ended up with a herringbone pattern, don't ask me how.

I still have to add the binding cane around the edge, but was so excited that I had to share.

Also, I've recently found my old recipes for making lye soaps which I loved to do a few years ago. I thought I'd try a different process. I started making soaps using the double boiler hot process method, however; I felt that I was loosing too much of the glycerine in the process. After making the base I would then rebatch into several different scents and herbals.

Now I've tried the Crock pot method and I'm sold on it. I found an old crock-pot and give it a go. It takes about an hour from start to finish and I have a dozen 4oz bars when done. This picture shows three different soaps each one batch.

L to R: Goats Milk, Lemon zingers, Oatmeal-honey-goat's milk.

I'm so glad to have had a few hours to play. Yahooooo!!!!