Opening to the feminine aspects of God has been a challenge. Bucking the collective consciousness is not the easiest thing to do, it turns out. But I am willing, and that's a good start to our new beginnings on this planet.
I have been exploring my hobbies, to see if they might have a clue to my future, and my conclusions have pretty much been, TOO MUCH WORK!!! Lol.
I am, I just learned, a DIY'er. I love doing things from scratch, researching the many options just for soap making, and paper crafting, cards, mostly, and have begun to consider making my first, on my own, no teacher, paper. I have been researching various recipes for shampoo, liquid soap, laundry soap, dish soap, making body wash... Oh yeah, and don't forget making my own flour, and bread... lol.
Well, it is now December 28th, 2013, same year so far, but past the Christmas hustle and bustle. As the star of the Christmas show, I made spa baskets for my adult, female children. They loved their baskets, which included hand made, citrus scented, colorful soap, lavender bath salts, and a big liquid/whipped soap dispenser. I also tried my hand at body wash or you could call it shampoo, like I did until a week after I made it, when it was becoming obvious that I should have ignored the instruction to add pectin to the liquid soap. I now am the not so proud owner of a half gallon bottle of liquid that contains tons of small gel balls in it that messes with my hair juju, and makes it difficult to squeeze from my recycled shampoo bottle! I am considering straining it thru some cheese cloth but haven't added that, to my accomplished list yet. Christmas 2013 was a wonderful day for many, I think, and I am so grateful that it was for me and my family as well, and I hope it was
for you and yours. My first new batch of soap after a long work related hiatus is a vegetarian version, made of soybean, coconut, and palm oils, with my usual additives of avocado, vit.E, glycerin this time, and lots of essential oil. I am going to make my next batch a castille soap probably, or try my first ever batch of lard soap which will make my soap a more solid, harder, and opaque, I believe, I saw some once, in Blodgett, Oregon, USA that was a really nice solid white
soap, and that is a goal of mine, but not imperative, so I am taking a circuitous route, and that feels right to me.
I am beginning to think about gearing my blog to showcase my essential oils, that I sell thru Doterra, and their many miraculous healing uses, so expect to hear more about healing, and the use of plant distillations!
