Saturday was a Sara & Amber craft experimental day. We started in Sara's lab making soap (we made about 64 bars this weekend). We did a double batch of lavender/rosemary glycrin soap and beeswax lemon verbana. Both turned out wonderful and I think will be added to the final book of recipes for our business launch. Tomorrow we do the final packaging of the soap.
After a quick jaunt around town grabbing some delicious subs at Eastside Deli (yum!) and checking out the Decorette shop to see their latest inventory of molds we headed to my kitchen and made delicious whipped body butter. The recipe contains: Shea & Cocoa Butter, Coconut Oil, Vitamin E, Essential Oil, Liquid Glycrin, and distilled water. The results were a wonderfully soft body butter!
We chose to use a grapefruit essential oil and instead of the resulting scent we had been intending, the lotion turned out to smell more like a chocolate covered orange. The kind you get around Christmas, so I tilted this variety Christmas Orange. We make about 40 ozs and packaged 23 for the shower I am hosting next weekend. I hope to add some shower themed stickers if time permits.
On a side bar...I wish we had the branding ready for our new business! We are not quiet there yet, but we spent a few hours planning. Thus far we have a domain and are working to link it to the blog. We checked out some preliminary site designs and started to discuss ideas and look at competitors. This week we are focusing on site linked and working on some design (we need a logo). Stay tuned for our new business launching mid this year! Sara and I have much work ahead of us :)
In tow with the rest of the weekend crafting projects was more shower preparation. I worked on customizing two game ideas I had come across online. One was "pin the sperm on the egg." I had a great time creating a sperm Dan and egg Sierra (was cracking up the whole time):
The second was a customization of an attributes game where you list the different attributes parents have and then you have the attendees guess which attribute the mommy will want the baby to share. No photoshop there though I had contemplated creating some combined images with Sierra's favorite physical traits (kind of old school Conan Obrien style with the celebrity babies).
All was a success until it came to the chocolates...but that is another tail all together and it is past my bedtime.
