Oh My Pumpkins!!

First off, someone has hacked into my Paypal account.  They stole quite a bit of money, so I have had to file a claim with Paypal to get my money back.  It can take up to 11 business days to complete my dispute so until that is over, no one will be able to purchase anything from my website.  Hopefully everything works out okay.  Someone say a prayer!

Besides that whole issue, I have recently developed a new lip balm that my lips are in love with!!  It is full of lip-loving goodies including pumpkin seed butter, avocado oil, tangerine essential oil, olive oil, and many other things.

Here are a few pictures to give your lips a teaser!  This Orange Pop Lip Balm will be for sale on my website for $3/tube when my Paypal account is working.

Have a Reviving Day!

Caitlin

Blogger Award

Michele from Tierra Verde Handmade Soaps has kindly nominated my blog for the Versatile Blogger Award!

If you do not currently follow the Tierra Verde blog, consider it if you own a small business.  She is constantly posting business tips and information on how to run a small business.  She is so helpful!  Her soaps are also very beautiful.  Check out her website by clicking here!

The concept behind the Versatile Blogger Award is to follow a few rules and then pass it on to whatever blog you think deserves it. The rules are:

1 – Make a post and link it back to the person who gave you the award (and include their website address)

2 – Share 7 random things about yourself

3 – Award 7 recently discovered bloggers with this award and contact them to let them know they have won 

For the randoms...

1.  I am going to be moving out of my parent's house in about a month and moving into an apartment closer to the KSU campus.

2.  My all time favorite food is green bean casserole.

3.  I am super scared of roller coasters.  Absolutely will not ride one.

4.  My sister just found out she is going to have a baby!  I'm an aunt!

5.  I used to ride horses.  I did eventing - dressage, cross country, and stadium jumping.  I miss it.

6.  I just found out I'm not that good at rebatching soap... yeah...

7.  I love painting my nails.

I nominate the following blogs:

Briny Bar Soap

Life Soap Simple

Point of Interest!

The Soap Bar

Yellow Plum Blossoms

Soap is Beautiful

Dreaming Tree Soapworks

Check out these awesome blogs!!

Caitlin

New Eucalyptus Soap!!

Funny story.  Ben and my dad decided that I didn't have a soap that smelled manly enough for them.  Soooo I got out my essential oils and let them get to work blending a more manly scent.  I have to say, the blend they created is not that bad.  I promised them that I would soap whatever blend they created, no matter what, but I think this one may be a keeper!

They decided they wanted to blend Eucalyptus, Cedarwood, and Litsea.  Earthy with a zest.  I like it.

I wanted the soap to be half green, half a creamy white color... well I didn't let the green soap sit long enough so it sorta did it's own in the mold swirl.  But it turned out beautiful if you ask me!

Beautiful soap right out of the mold.  I was anxious to cut it since the outside was green and I knew there was some other colored soap in there!

Yayyyy!!  Not quite what I expected but still looks good!

Cut & Stamped

Woo hoo!

I will have to see how the scent holds up after it cures.  If it goes well, you are looking at a brand-new Revive soap!

Anyways, I'm still working on making white soap.  For the one above, I used 1 tablespoon of titanium dioxide for  1.5lbs of soap (split a 3lb batch in half, part green, part white).  However, it's still not really white, just a lighter cream color.  It seems like the obvious solution would to be to add more TD, but whenever I add too much I get little white flecks in the soap.  I am using oil dispersible TD.  Any suggestions/tips from my fellow soapers on how to make really white soap?

Any July 4th plans?  I'm packing my bags right now and heading to Alabama.  Ben's grandparents have a lake house on Smith Lake.

Have a great 4th of July!

Caitlin