I have to admit that for years I have been buying bubbles from the grocery store.
I have tried on numerous occasions to make them but the recipes just weren't working for me. I needed bubbles to flow. Not bubbles that would appear sporadically or one at a time. I most certainly dont have time for that - or the patience - not even the lung capacity to keep up with it once the demands start coming.
Until now...
You all should know by now that when I find a recipe - and it works - I have to share it. Not to brag but really so that if I can make your life easier in anyway ~ hells-bells ~ I am going to. I know that when I was a super young Mamma all those years ago and if someone could have shared how to make things a little simpler, it would have made life a lot cheaper.
Blogging only came my way after the third kiddo, Garren.
Homemade Bubble Recipe
6 cups water
1 cup dishwashing liquid
1 tablespoon glycerin
1/4 cup syrup
pour water into the container you'll be storing the mixture in and slowly stir in the dishwashing liquid
try not to let this foam or bubble while you are doing it.
add the glycerin and syrup and once combine decant into your chosen bubble dispensers.
ours comes from the grocery store that when finished I just cleaned them up and stored them to be reused with my homemade mixture.
Hello there and brightest of blessings for the new week ahead my friends.
I do hope your weekend was relaxing and enjoyed by you and yours? What did you get up to?
Saturday was pretty glum and miserable with much needed rain. Soccer was cancelled due to this so we didn't need to venture out at all and since all the shopping (miraculously) was done on Friday I didn't have to worry about going out at all, the whole weekend or for the rest of this coming week either in fact. I have weeks were I just cant get all the shopping done for the week ahead in one day, so then I catch up with the rest on the Saturday. (or send Rob with a list to do it for me 😉 ).
Sunday, although still pretty icy, cleared and by mid morning we were able to venture outside again. In fact it even warmed for the rest of it. So much so that we got so involved with outside it almost felt that it was time for a new season of gardening. I found Rob and the younger two outside clearing what was left in the vegetable beds and prepping them for just that. I love when we get to this time of the year. It can still get pretty cold and we're usually hit with a freakish cold front that brings on in snow as close as dammit to our mountain ranges before we can even consider being in the clear for real Spring weather. But, in saying this, there are other ways we can start getting prepared. Like clearing and prepping the beds. AND then dreaming about what will be planted in them.
We have also added gardening to our homeschooling curriculum. Rob and I feel it is so very important that the kids take part in the growing of our food and of course in doing so learn to appreciate what ends up on our plates at the end of it all.
A few months back our grocery store was adding a couple of these sweet little pots with every purchase made at their store. The incentive was (of course) that depending on the amount spent that would determine how many little pots you were given. Clever 😉 right? But, for us, as gardeners it was completely the wrong time of the year for them to be planted. So we kept them to one side for just the right time. We planted all the veggies pot this weekend and have left the edible flowers for another time. Each little pot comes with instructions and it will be up to Garren to keep them going.
He really is so excited about his project. He knows that once the plants are established he will be given his own space in one of the beds to nurture them until harvest time.
Finally we ended off our day in the garden with the inevitable wheelbarrow rides.
This was Danika's first time and in true Danika style she summoned her brothers to be there alongside her through it all.
There is so much to plan for our garden for the months ahead.
This loaf bar is just freshly cut and the aromas wafting through the kitchen are amazing.
The colours in this photograph are a little out. More so because this moment is capture in the early evening, so the lighting isn't very good. As soon as they're cured I will photograph them a little better and then add them to our Shop.
I am loving the imperfections here. In the past it would have got me all in a spin. The way the charcoal line smudged down the bar from the slicer or that the one end is not even or flat enough. In the past I would have sliced and diced them into perfect squares shaving off all the best parts - the imperfections.
My Ylang Ylang + Rose Geranium Soap Bars are made with Olive, Coconut + Sunflower Oils as the base. There is an infusion of Bentonite Clay combined in the bar which will draw impurities from the skin (absolutely gorgeous for shaving) + a sprinkled line of Activated Charcoal which aids in pretty much the same way as the Bentonite Clay. One could say this would be a perfect face soap especially if it (being your face) has oily tendencies.
I dont know how I will possible hold out for the next 4 weeks of curing!
