Last week, my husband gave me a call and immediately asked a question: "How would you like to spend a day where you go out on the range and shoot a bunch of weapons and then do some other fun stuff on Wednesday?" Didn't even wait to hear about the other "fun stuff" before I yelled out, "YES!", right in the middle of Target. (I wonder if people thought I was accepting a marriage proposal via phone call? After all, I was excited and enthusiastic enough.) And I DID have fun. I had so much fun yesterday, that I immediately came home, stuffed four pieces of pizza in my face before crashing... not even having the energy to blog about it until today. Special Warfare Memorial Statue (a.k.a.- "Bronze Bruce) The "fun stuff" turned out to be the 2019 CapEx on Fort Bragg. ( Click here to see a teaser video for #CapEx2019.) First, the attendees all met in the parking lot of the IMA...
Feeling better after yesterday's adventures but I still didn't feel quite up to doing anything too crazy... So I made a double batch of soap! A customer had ordered a batch of "Sweet Magnolia and Orange Blossom" and I thought that I might as well just double it and have an extra batch for the shop. It's a popular soap and I've made it numerous times, only this time, I wanted to do a little bit of improvisation with the design. Oil infusions before going into the crockpot. I also have plans to make a new baby soap in the future, so I wanted to get a head start on the oil infusions for that batch. I sterilized two mason jars, and started my chamomile infusion in one, and my calendula infusion in the other. There are a few different ways to infuse oil, but I didn't want to wait the 8 weeks for the "slow" method, so I went ahead and got it infusing using the crockpot method . After...