As a side note....

On the soap that is......
Here's the soap recipe we used. Thought I'd share.......

~~Cold process soap~~

Stuff you'll need:
~Pretty good sized pot
~Wooden spoon
~Well greased mold...with a lid (I just used a good sized tupperware)
~If you have one....a stick blender
~Add ins.....stuff like essential oils, oats, flowers.....whatever. ;)
~And a towel or blanket to cover it up at the end

You'll want to have your mold greased and ready before you start

4 cups room temperature water
(you could use goats milk, herbal tea, or whatever liquid your creative mind can come up with)
48 Oz vegetable shortening (room temp)
32 Oz Coconut oil
16 Oz Olive oil
12 Oz lye

Combine the water and lye. Stir until dissolved.
Be careful with the lye fumes...open some windows or turn on your kitchen stove vent. Be careful not to splash or breathe over the pot. If you do get lye splashes on your skin or clothes, Vinegar, I heard, can neutralize it. Also, the lye mixture will be hot. That's what makes the next step work. :)
Add shortening, bit by bit. Add coconut oil, while continuously stirring. Add olive oil. (you can use a stick blender to help mix in the shortening clumps a little faster and help mix in general)
Keep stirring until you see tracing. Tracing is where it is so thick that you can lift your spoon and twirl it and it'll leave behind a "trail".....sorta like a design. :)
Once it traces you can begin adding your add-ins.

I used 1 1/2 cup of oats and about 1-2 teaspoons of Clary sage essential oil and a few drops of Lavender essential oil.

Pour into your greased mold. Tap the mold on the counter slightly to get all the air bubbles out. Cover with lid and towel. Put this is a undisturbed area for about 1-2 hours. Checking it every 30 minutes or so. Once it is hard enough...you can cut it. Pop it out and dry it on a wire rack for about 2-3 weeks.


The things you can do with homemade soap is endless!!! :) All the colorants and fragrances and shapes and what not..... :) So much fun....

You can check out this cool you tube channel for fun ideas....Soap Queen TV



God bless....
K.K.M.D
Matt. 1:20-21

I did it!!!

Mom and I attempted to make soap again the other day! Guess what?!?!...we managed to do it this time without any explosions or volcanoes. :) It turned out pretty good...if I do say so myself. We used the West Ladies basic soap recipe. I can say it turned out a lot better than last time. :) haha!! We only had one small dilemma....it took quite a while to trace. But, that's not as bad as a huge volcanic explosions all over the place! :)
Check out the result.......


Drying, drying, drying....

Don't make fun of my soap cutting "skills"...trust me I'll get better. :)


God bless!!
K.K.M.D
Prov. 31:13

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
1 Chronicles 16:8

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
1Chronicles 16:34

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Colossians 3:15

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
God bless!

K.K.M.D
Psalms 118:1