Skayc, I know what you mean. Sometimes the mountain of dishes - usually soap related for me - is the biggest deterrent to making the next batch..
What soapy thing have you done today?
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Saponista
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I made my video for this month's soap challenge. I just need to edit it now. I am mortified as I hate my voice. At 32, I still sound like a 12 year old, but we all have something we hate about ourselves. I just need to get over it.
navigator9
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I think the majority of us hate the sound of our own voice when we hear it. I didn't get an answering machine for the longest time because I didn't want to record an answer message. LOL, I'm looking forward to your video, I can never get enough soap videos!!!
navigator9
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The only soapy thing I've done today is to anticipate a shower with some nice lemon verbena soap, after putting porch chairs together in the garage again, in 90 plus degree heat and sweltering humidity. I was really upset, because I put the first chair together and tried it out, and it was awful, I kept sliding out of it, and the "bounce" was all wrong, I thought, oh, what have I done, buying these chairs online without trying them first! Then I realized that I had the leg section on backwards. LOL Glad I made that mistake on the first chair, so I didn't repeat it with the others. The chairs are SO comfortable, but I've been dripping wet all day, and you know how a shower never feels better than when you're really grungy and sweaty? And that nice lemon verbena is going to be really refreshing! Isn't it nice to have a variety of soaps to choose from? We're so lucky. :grin:
Saponista, I am just like you, I hate how young I sound. It's not one of those things you get grateful for as you age, either, like actually looking younger
I will say that I think other people invariably think we sound better than we do ourselves. At least, I do not see them running away with their fingers in their ears, which is what I want to do when I hear my own voice.
Oh my gosh! The first time I heard my voice, I cringed. I had no idea I have a high-pitched whinny nasally voice. I make "The Nanny" sound like an alto! Why doesn't everyone tell me to shut the heck up? Now that I've been in the South for 20+ years, we can add Southern drawl to that crap.
Teresa, I went to high school, part of college and law school in NC, I actually miss that nice gentle NC drawl sometimes (not the full on Deliverance version, though.) Plus some of the phrases (Southerners, you know how much nicer it is to say "bless his/her heart" than spell it out in full
I still find myself occasionally saying/writing "you might should" do x, y, or z, which is totally inconsistent with the rest of my speech/accent and must be jarring for those listening!
I still find myself occasionally saying/writing "you might should" do x, y, or z, which is totally inconsistent with the rest of my speech/accent and must be jarring for those listening!
Saponista
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I do also have to warn people that I do sound very English. I have tried my best to speak clearly, but when I was in the Deep South this year, people really struggled to understand me.
Silly, we will understand you. I like it when people post videos and see if my ideas of what they might sound like match up with the IRL version. That's why *I* don't want to post one. Although people might already think I sound like a 20 year old sorority girl
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Saponista
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I love finding out what people look like too. It's often nothing like I imagined!
I know, I wonder if people from here that meet me IRL think I match how they think I seem/look/sound like from "meeting" me here. I think I do, Sea, Carolyn or Jen can confirm or deny, though. They probably expected a mid 30's, frosty, intimidating blond Valkyrie. Hah, I know they didn't, actually!
ETA: I don't know if I would ever make a video, though. In addition to my voice, I have woefully unpretty hands. That is the good thing about gloves though, they are the Spanx of the soaping world.
ETA: I don't know if I would ever make a video, though. In addition to my voice, I have woefully unpretty hands. That is the good thing about gloves though, they are the Spanx of the soaping world.
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LittleCrazyWolf
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That's funny not_ally. I hate my hands, I always think I look like I have elephant skin hands. When I take a picture of a soap while I'm holding it I actually try different positions to see which one makes my hand look the least elephanty. Gosh, that sounds so vain but oh well 'tis the truth!
And add me to the list of people that hates the sound of their own voice. When I hear a recording of myself my initial reaction is always "do I really sound like that?" I think I sound like an obnoxious valley girl.
And add me to the list of people that hates the sound of their own voice. When I hear a recording of myself my initial reaction is always "do I really sound like that?" I think I sound like an obnoxious valley girl.
LittleCrazyWolf
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Here's the soapy thing I did today. I walked upstairs to my soaping room, looked at the pile of soaping dishes from Tuesday and walked back downstairs. I'm currently in denial about having to wash my soaping dishes.
I don't know why I don't post on days when I do actual soapy things. Like Tuesday, on Tuesday I made facial soap, beer soap, salt bars, and a batch of kiddie soap. Why didn't I come on here and post on Tuesday so I look productive?
I don't know why I don't post on days when I do actual soapy things. Like Tuesday, on Tuesday I made facial soap, beer soap, salt bars, and a batch of kiddie soap. Why didn't I come on here and post on Tuesday so I look productive?
LCW, luckily, I think v. few people start out looking at your hands except in soaping videos! And the awful thing is, I like pretty hands, I am always jealous when I see people with nice ones turning their soaps back and forth.
I never post on this thread when I have anything good to share, either. Relevant details from my note title from one of yesterday's: "Fail." From today "Total fail, soap on a stick. Must be lye."
The thing that sucks is that I am almost out of lye, I have 27 lbs from the Lye Guy that is stuck at FedEx, damn it. I am so obstinate that I want to strip down my recipe and use up the last of this problematic stuff (it was weird in the lye water) just to see if there is any way around it.
I never post on this thread when I have anything good to share, either. Relevant details from my note title from one of yesterday's: "Fail." From today "Total fail, soap on a stick. Must be lye."
The thing that sucks is that I am almost out of lye, I have 27 lbs from the Lye Guy that is stuck at FedEx, damn it. I am so obstinate that I want to strip down my recipe and use up the last of this problematic stuff (it was weird in the lye water) just to see if there is any way around it.
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Saponista
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What was weird about it? Was it old? I hope your new stuff comes soon!
It wasn't that old, Sap, that was the weird thing. Also, I had made several batches out of the same bottle and until I hit the last two I was fine. The first problem batch I just assumed I had mis-measured something or somehow bobbled up the process somehow.
The next time the lye water was pretty viscous by the time it had cooled, which I have never seen before w/just lye and aloe liquid (the thin kind) unless adding something else. I was really careful to check everything, stepped back on amounts of anything in the recipe that could be problematic, did all the other slow trace things, still soap on a stick. I must have gotten water in the stuff at the end of the bottle or done something else stupid.
The next time the lye water was pretty viscous by the time it had cooled, which I have never seen before w/just lye and aloe liquid (the thin kind) unless adding something else. I was really careful to check everything, stepped back on amounts of anything in the recipe that could be problematic, did all the other slow trace things, still soap on a stick. I must have gotten water in the stuff at the end of the bottle or done something else stupid.
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skayc1
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Ordered more supplies online!.. am waiting till next week to soap, a friend has ordered me some Patchouli EO to make her some soap, I have just enough cocoa butter to make it for her till my new supplies arrive. her patchouli eo will arrive before my cocoa butter arrives..so playing the waiting game.
am waiting till next week to soap, a friend has ordered me some Patchouli EO to make her some soap, I have just enough cocoa butter to make it for her till my new supplies arrive. her patchouli eo will arrive before my cocoa butter arrives..so playing the waiting game.
Mage, what on earth is laundry butter? I thought the buttery type stuff was the type you'd be trying to keep out of the laundry
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Officially joined the forum and made my introduction post! Also tracked new scale shipment from Amazon, and scheduled time to make pumpkin bars (soap bars, not eating bars, that is) this weekend. Scheduled time tonight to take care of the apricots in my fridge so that they can be frozen and made into soapable puree when I actually have time to deal with that later.
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