thank you Louise and Ross for your encouragment (and loving the soap in advance) - thats bril. I am ordering more supplies today :) though and having another go. My house smells pretty good and yes the washing will too in a couple of weeks. Louise, is Bill your learnered husband ? cheers, Mary On 28/06/2010, at 12:00 AM, Ross Spencer wrote: > Exactly Louie. If it's not quite coming together don;t use all of your > supplies trying to get it perfect > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:28:19 +1200, Louise Shing > <louiseshing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Mary > > I know how you’re feeling, the same thing happened to me last week. My first > batch of seized soap was the soap swap batch, luckily I listened to Bill and > had planned to do 2 batches. Funny thing is the seized batch looks awful but > brighter better colours and the batch that did work the colours are so-so. I > have 2 batches of soap that weren’t quite as I’d planned and usually when > it’s just bung old soap for family (the norm) no problems and lovely colours, > etc. The pressure to perform – I was hoping to show everyone how much I’ve > learnt and grown from last soap swap but with these two they’ll be thinking > I’m going backwards. I’m not doing another batch – I’ll give what I’ve done > and I’m sure that it will be OK. > > > Don’t worry we’ll love the soap anyway (we know how much effort went into it). > > > Louise > > > > > > on 27/6/10 4:35 PM, Mary Louise Parker at maryp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I have found what I planned and had in mind for the swap has also morphed - > must to my distress! do I remake, try for the desired and planned outcome > again? In the past where the expectations have been just a nice usable bar I > liked to see what would happen, but with this I would 'like' to have a bit > more control over the outcome! plus I had a batch which seized - my fault and > I should have known better. I think I find my flax weaving more relaxing. > > Mary > > > > On 27/06/2010, at 11:23 AM, Liz Brook wrote: > > The anticipation is awesome isn't it! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ross Spencer <mailto:galahad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: soapcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:58 AM > Subject: [soapcraft] Soap Swap > > Hmm....OK the colour has morphed into something completely different than > expected but it looks like it might be very pretty. Will see how it cuts > > The scent is being overtaken by one particular note now that it has been > soaped. It may settle down with a bit of age > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This list is sponsored by http://www.soapcraft.co.nz - supplier of raw > ingredients. To unsubscribe from this list go to > //www.freelists.org/list/soapcraft/ enter your email address and choose > unsubscribe. Or you can send an email to soapcraft-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > unsubscribe in the subject line. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------