i have a yello belly!

Made ace bath bombs with natural colouring dye. Unfortunately I ended up with a yellow ring round my belly and round the bath and it wont come off the bath. It will wear off me! Other than the yellow bit ace bath bombs! best not to use turmeric by the looks of things.

INGREDIENTS:
500g bicarbonate of soda OR Sodium hydrogen carbonate.
250g of citric acid.
Water as needed!

Race is on till xmas to make this work and where then?

xmas markets and tons achieved

Well life is too short. Done lots on monday to wednesday when not at work but spent the last 2 days wishing my life away again. Trying to sign up for a Christmas market on Towcester but dont actually know how to pronounce Towcester. Toe cest er? Or Towster?? Who knows. It could be a bit embarrassing tho doing a market in a town you cant pronounce the name of. Still got a few months yet to sus out the pronunciation. Spent all of Monday at interview for dream job which didnt get. Looked round Camden market and didnt buy anything which was very difficult but being broke and in trouble and trying to pay off debts would be silly to spend what havent got. Then tuesday made soap and cleaned the house but in the opposite order. Wednesday decided no way will afford accountant next year so best get off 4rse and do the company books. Not a great surprise to find lots gone out an very little come in tho have actually now sold £39.95 in soap!!!! Not a great amount I know but very encouraging for me. This entrepreneurship stuff is dead hard maan! Starting to wonder how I will ever get this company off the ground and actually trading. Then delivered some soap to local florist who is selling for me and came home and had encouraging email froma site who sell stuff like mine saying someone would call me but they havent and not sure whether to be cheeky and just go for it or just forget the whole thing!. Then wednesday afternoon spent hours and hours till 7pm wrapping and labelling soap and individually pricing to sell when do get a stall somewhere. Seriously knackering is the word for it. I need to buy a bar stool for the kitchen so I can sit whilst doing all this hard work. Anyway having wrapped everything. Made 4 new bars of soaps ( curing ready to cut next week) and sorted out curing cupboard have now decided need more to actually do a stall than just bars of soap so going to make lots of bath bombs since over last few months of playing for us seem to have perfected and now dare I say it as good as Lush ones. Well I think so and so do several others who have tried them out. No longer using basic recipe off internet either have altered. Just need to decide which are best recipes and then get safety assessment and hopefully will have about 100 for the xmas market on 7th December. And need to buy some nice looking baskets to present them in on this stall. Then last 2 days back in dreary office doing boring work which just gives me nothing back and doesnt even pay very well. There has to be a better way to live really there does. Got to enquire about local University markets too since a very long time ago in the 80s I sold lots of stuff like hand made jewellery and screen printed Tshirts at one and could do that again one day a week or fortnight. I think this will come together eventually really I do but so far I have laid out nearly £4000 and got £39.95 back! Still they say you need to speculate to accumulate................we will see.........Luckily have very nice partner who is encouraging me all the way. Well he may not be rich but he has lots going for him in other ways or has now I have gone and invested all my savings and lots of money each month from wages in this slightly mad idea. Maybe it will eventually pay of who knows. In meantime have caught up with reading other blogs and am now intendingt o get round to properly subscribing to them. Oh and has lots of problems with 1&1 internet ecommerce site not working so emailed em and complained and they said they couldnt find anything wrong but when logged back in they have fixed it all so hopefully by monday might even have online business going! Reminds me of that song..............things can only get better.............cant remember for life of me who sang that ( probably very uncool band) but who cares. Today is friday and cant wait for weekend this week. Not that anything has changed there!

new connections

Well I seem to be getting worse and worse at blogging. My life has become very hectic. I have actually made two different soap sales and am meeting someone tomorrow who is a florist who is interested in stocking my soaps. The trouble is it has become obvious I am rubbish at the storage and logistics side. Spent the whole of wednesday and thursday nights reorganising my storage so i can find everything and know what type of soap most need to be made next. I havent had time to make any more yet but suspect i will do so tomorrow after the meeting. At least now we have got round to wrapping some of it we can start to cut some of the large bars which really should have been cut last week or even the previous week and then left to dry out further. When they are cut they take much more space up since have to be lain out to dry and I keep running out of space. It was all getting a bit much but then I decided why am I stressing out. This is meant to be fun and fullfilling .......the fact I still work fulltime means no time for the soap or for me but its going to change. I do not yet know how I shall make it happen but I intend to do my best to and i believe it will all work out so it must. Got ripped off by the labels guy who has charged me £500 more than he quoted!!!!! Well a lesson to be learned here- always get a written quote! So I am learning but this is the painful way. I wont get caught out like that again and not sure I shall be going back to him either. Depends on how it all goes I suppose cos we now have a great design and logo and infact my company has been born! The new ecommerce website is started but yet to go live and I have enrolled for the webdesign course. Also have a job interview for a new job which I am hoping may come off since it sounds much better than my current boredom boredom unfulfilling boredom that is my working life. Made friends with the local scrap man who came and removed loads of metal - well I would rather give away than let skip company have it when we are paying them for the skip itself - let them have the s5it we cannot get carried away since thats the point and they wont make much out of us! Well other than the extortionate hire of the skip itself of which we will probably need another 2-3 skips!

Except for the fact I completely enjoy blogging, I should probably give it up due to never doing it very often! Still perfection is something to be aimed at and never achieved.
I also read part of a new blog Owls Wings which I find very inspiring and interesting so will be going back there. Need to catch up with Tatty too since have been very slack reading blogs recently.

Godaddy website tonight!

Another whole week has gone and loads has happened. I found out whilst looking for a freeware shopping cart for my new business website which I built using GoDaddy`s website tonight package that it is possible to write to the admin file of the account. While I am no expert its obvious to me this must threfore be insecure so anyway I contact Godaddy who help me to secure my Linux site but cannot do anything with my Bsoaps site ( on website tonight) so I have closed it down and now waiting for an authorisation code to move elsewhere. Spent days checking out ecommerce packages and came to the conclusion I will sign up with 1&1 since not only are the "green" apparently but most of the ethical companies seem to use them and also they have a great package for small companies which is only about £6 a month which is very good so going to try them out next...........assuming ofcourse I am able to get away from GoDaddy! I have checked out some forums and it seems that might not be as easy as it should be but we will see. Even if they give me the codes to authorise moving the domain it could still take me 48 hours to get up and running. Anyway tonight I intend to set up the bsoaps.co.uk site on 1&1 and then just move the godaddy site as soon as I can. Unfortunately the soap labels ( finally recieved last saturday) have bsoaps.com on them which is a bit of a cock-up to say the least. If I can get both sites pointing at the 1&1 account tho it wont matter and will be much better really since it will mean anyone searching for me should find me. Boiler man is coming saturday and we still have a skip outside the house waiting to be filled and it will be in his way! Hoepfully he will still be able to put it in without moaning too much about lack of access. I will finally get my labelling gun saturday to add batch codes and BBEs to my soaps so I will actually be able to start trading one week later than originally intended but its not such a bad result in the end. I am quite excited about the whole affair tho need to quit my day job to concentrate on my own company and cannot afford to yet! Also have had several quotes for getting a professional website built - cheapest is £1000 + VAT so enrolling tomorrow/saturday depending how it goes for a course at local tech to learn to build them myself. Means by about this time next year I should be able to do my own website design rather than rely on packages and templates. Whole thing has become very exciting. Its so weird tho that my idea to make hand made natural soap has escalated to the extent I now have a company and am about to learn to build websites. Ofcourse if ok at it I will also be able to do other peoples and make a living from website design. Weird year this has been I have to say. And still 3-4 months left..........whatever will happen next? My mate (currently living in Salisbury ) is moving back to the midlands too so that is great cos we will get to see each other much more often - I feel the pub calling.............