Busy, busy, busy this weekend. I was successful in selling the dragonfly, a little, green Geo Metro that was my former car. Big thanks to my main squeeze for all of his help and loving support. I'm sure it will make the young Eagle Scout a fine first car. I'm super duper happy to get that albatross from around my neck too.

I poured my first bars of soap yesterday. Don't really feel right saying that I made the soap since it's just melt and pour stuff that you add color and scent to. I didn't fool around with any lye or any of the other basic (pardon the pun) ingredients required to actually make soap from scratch. Unfortunately my little starter soap kit from Brambleberry didn't include the directions for embedding the little dolphin shaped soap into the larger rectangular bar of soap. So I just tried what I thought would work. However, the little dolphin melted and morphed into a blue blob in my clear glycerine soap bar. Oh well, everything else worked out OK and smelled nice too. They don't look either as fancy or as rustic as I would be happy with though. Hopefully more practice will fix this.

We also made our first batch of "gloog" aka Christmas Elixir aka our homemade version of Bailey's Irish Creme Liqueur. It turned out well. Hopefully you'll be able to eventually to see the recipe on my recipe page, right now Geocities is a little reluctant to let me post.

I wrapped, packaged and readied for shipping, all the presents for my parents. What a load off my mind it is to have that done. We brought our nice bushy tree in from outside in hopes of decorating it soon, not sure when though, because there's much more busy-ness ahead. Tomorrow night, we're off to the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar and I can't wait. This is a local Austin tradition with lots of talented artists selling their wares. I usually have no trouble finding something for myself there.