London fog cold-process soap

Here is my first London fog recipe I made up.

Ingredients:

• Lard
• Olive oil
• Coconut oil
• Distilled water
• Lye

Flavorings: 

• Lady grey tea
• Vanilla bean
• Lavender

English Muffins

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I found this recipe from Pintrest: http://myfairbaking.blogspot.ca/2012/12/homemade-english-muffins.html

For Homemade English Muffins and I had to give it a try. 


Ingredients
1 cup of milk
3 TBSP butter
3 TBSP of honey
1 cup of warm water (105-110 degrees)
1/4 oz of yeast
2 TBSP cornmeal
5 cups + extra for sprinkling all purpose flour
1 tsp salt

Headphone Customization

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Since I've been riding the bus & using my headphones a lot more lately, the tangling was starting to bother me. I saw this cute post (Contemporary Farm Girl) & I finally tried it out. It really keeps headphone from tangling! I'm very happy with it. 

The original post has a great video showing the process. 
I used 3 skeins of embroiderer floss (I used 3 colors I liked together)

Another post with great instructions is on Apartment Therapy. 

The Herring-Bone Knit

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Herringbone Knit

I'm trying out this new knitting pattern and I'm going to say it's my new favorite.
This video shows how to do it very well!
http://newstitchaday.com/horizontal-herringbone-stitch/

This stitch does turn out incredible flat  looks pretty nice on the backside as well.

Herringbone knit on size 10 1/2 needles

Lard Soap - First Try

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Cold-Processed Lard Soap

I made a small batch of soap with Lard as the fat. I based this recipe from Mother Earth News:

Yogurt cups prepared with baby oil (mineral oil) 

I halved the recipe and used some individual yogurt containers.

Purple Peach-Lard Soap:

1 lbs Lard
2.2 oz. Lye
3.5 fl oz. distilled water

Extras:

Red and Blue coloring and Peach F.O.

0.5 oz. Peach F.O. (Fragrance oil)
10-15 drop blue liquid coloring for soap
10 drops red liquid coloring for soap