Bubbles!

Enough about Wyatt, I have a new love!

I've wanted to make soap for about a year.

I love homemade soap.

I love all the different sizes and smells of homemade soap.

I love everything about homemade soap except the making homemade soap for the first time part of homemade soap.

Then I went to Washington during the holidays and my friend Kenna made soap with me.

She showed me all the tricks and went over every step with me so I wouldn't be scared to do it by myself.

I came home and bought the oils, the scale, the lye, the fragrance, and all the other soap stuff I needed and stared at all of it sitting on my counter because I was still a little scared.

I re-read my books.

I re-watched the videos.

I re-scoured the blogs.

I re-went over my notes from Kenna.

I was ready.

I did it.

ALLBYMYSELF!

I. Made. My. Own. Soap.

It wasn't near as scary as I thought it was going to be and now I'm hooked.

Hello, my name is Marilyn and I'm a cold process soap junkie.

I wake up thinking about soap and I go to bed thinking about soap.

My house smells so fabulous you wouldn't even believe it.

I think we will be the cleanest family in Beavercreek and have the cleanest friends and family in three states.

I will have the freshest smelling dogs, pig, goats and donkeys.

No one will escape the soap.

I will give it as gifts for birthdays, weddings, baby showers, graduation, Christmas and Hanukkah .

(if I ever meet anyone Jewish...)

The problem is, I don't know how much time my new addiction will leave for parenting, facebook and blogging.

I may need to work on my time management skills.

Anyway, I would love to stick around and talk more about this, but I have soap to make!