tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34275968267860132932011-07-08T05:47:33.995+01:00Umm slightly eccentric wanna be (but not very good)pole dancing chef soap making mum!! I'm passionate about food, soap and cupcakes in that order. Chef by day (sometimes night) soapmaker and cupcake maker by night (sometimes day)and kite flyer in between!FairyAlchemyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12678457374692703778noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427596826786013293.post-35822954412481566792010-07-12T11:22:00.003+01:002010-07-12T11:31:11.144+01:00

Finally I can log into my blog....Its been a long while and strangely I feel like I've spent most of the time since my last post in bed!Not to waffle on too much but all my plans of world domination came to a grinding halt!It happened so quick with no warning and totally floored me, the transition from being super busy and active to hardly being able to get out of bed has been incredibly

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Umm I'm starting to think I may have a karma debt..The weekend follwing my birthdy we hd a meeting to decide what we are going to do with the new company... lots of things were planned and I have a sales team so it was all steam ahead!!Well more like a grind to a halt as I got 'Man flu' I felt like death warmed up on toast!4 days in bed and weeks behind everything I couldnt get to my new shop and

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Sleep is a luxury I have not been partaking enough of this last week, it seems I look at my bed and then it's already time to get up again. Between Cake making and delivering, soap packaging (umm not made a lot for a while must find some time to make more), Working (thankfully only 3 days a week and still with the wicked cook from the south being a class a B**, Family coming and going and a

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Really speedy post here because so much has happened and so little time!after what can only be classed a strange year and a bit.... I thought it was time I sorted out a few loose ends and made some real plans, well my plans went there own way as they tend to but the results are....Everything was planned to change on my birthday and trying to get some things to fit in were difficult but I managed

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Today is my sons 21st birthday so as a treat I've arranged for him to have microlight flying lessons starting this afternoon... Then it's of to work again xxxx

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We have been playing some more with Shower Jelly this week in time for a new market stall we just did yesterday, well I say we I had nothing to do with the market that was my new executive sales person (my boy lol). He looks cute trying a chocolate face mask.. The market had only been planned a week but we didnt plan on my computer to suddenly develop a fear of starting and running correctly

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I cannot quite work out why I never have time, I do my shopping and banking ect online so i'm not popping out so much and spending hours trawling the shopping center, We don't watch TV and my young adults help with the housekeeping, I work about 2 mile away from home and I'm finished by 2pm but I never seem to have free time to blog or catch up with online goings on!!Anyhow yesterday I decided I

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Honest Scrap AwardFantastic I've been awarded The Honest Scrap Award from fellow blogger Daisy Soap Girl http://daisysoapgirl.blogspot.com/In her words ' I'm not sure what an Honest Scrap Award is but I'm believing that it means you're honest, enjoy your craft and work hard at having others enjoy it as well. As with all good things it is time to pass the award on to others so that they will know

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Finally an uneventful week, well slightly uneventful I've been laid up with a bug most of the week and hidden inside my quilt feeling sorry for myself by day 3 I felt I was going nuts not doing anything.Thankfully all clear now so I'm back at work tonight but today I have a mass of gardening to do with all the vegetables to plant and a lawn to seed so its back to being busy again...I came across

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Oh second blog of the day .. I was surfing around catching up with everything I seem to miss in a daze and came across Patrice's cupcake give away at soap seduction. she makes the most amazing Shea butter cupcake soaps my mouth waters when I see them.. Well she is having a cupcake giveaway so surf on by her blog to see the amazing soaps she creates as well as her super bright shaving soaps they

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What a week it has been again, I dream of having an uneventful stress free week the way my sister dreams of her next holiday or car. It started rather fine when I got a new smoker which I'd been after for a while since I adore fresh smoked food, I had an idea for smoked crabs so of we trotted to Norfolk for their well known cromer crabs! After battling arctic winds and freezing cold (ok it wasn't

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I finally got the draft of the website up and running yeah.... I've also already got 2 orders and it only went up yesterday...So short post as i have cakes to make .... toodle pip xxxwww.7sinscakes.co.uk

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Busy Bust Busy that's all I seem to be but by the end of the week I look back and wonder what I have done!The last two weeks though I think have had the most impact of this year!I was at my wits end with everyone moping around and feeling down so I decided to take action!My darling princess pickled onion from the planet cheese had been really down since losing her apprenticeship last month and

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WHY WOMEN CAN'T SLEEPHave you ever wondered how a woman's brain works? Well....it's finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved. A man has only 2 balls and they consume all his thoughts. I feel I've been juggling all of those blue balls at the

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New Month New Start.... Day two of March and already is a mixed feeling month...Today was one of those days where everything that could go right for me did, I had a meeting at work and let the boss convince me to go back and on a slight promotion.. I also found all of last years missing data which included all of my insurances and recipes and product information files I had been stressing over

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Quick update.... Company boss called me and apologized for the farce at work while she was away.. They want me to go back but I can take a week to think about it paid .. Oh what a bonus.. I will think about it!Also hopefully next week I can launch 7 Sins my decedent sinful cakes online site, so I possibly will be not blogging this week we shall see .... toodle pip !

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Warning this is really long!!!What a day today has been, I woke with a smile on my face because I am finally getting things organized and we had made a lot of decisions (the brood and I) after a family meeting last night.. I should of known then it was going to be a strange day..I quit my job this morning. It was not planned or anything and it was very quick and to tell you the truth bloody fun

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It's been a while since I blogged a case of so much internet so little time..A combination of starting a new chef job and a torrent of family issues has meant that the elusive sit down and have an hour to myself is just not enough time to keep up with the deluge of internet things to do.I've had health issues which were new to me, I spent over 2 yrs getting healthy and fit following spending the

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My quickest ever post... One of the reasons I've not been posting...Alyx Breenan Gibson my new Guardian son xx

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Oh how cool when I got back on my computer there was an email from emma (misi.co.uk) congratulating me on being selected as this weeks www.misi.co.uk featured seller what a really lovely thing to find in my email. I really like misi as it is just so uncluttered and unlike etsy I am informed straight away on each sale by email.Oh it feels like ages since I got to sit and write my blog first of all

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What is it when a male sees a woman with a power tool they just have to take over even if they have never used said power tool... ummm something which I thought was limited to boyfriends or husbands has effected my son now.. I planned on taking a few days to redo parts of my kitchen namely the worktops and painting. So armed with my snazzy new jigsaw with laser guidance (so you can see where you

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Today was bath bomb day, more difficult with all this wet weather it makes my house really humid.As well as having the floor mop on constant standby with muddy doggy footprints..But of I went with swing playing really loud on my comp radio and had a really good day.Making the fizzy bubble bars the other day was the same it can set the fizz off..So I'm drying batches nearer the radiators.There's

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Well I was not going to write this blog today as I really wanted an early night.. But bless her little heart my daughter is making me a bacon sandwich yumm....So for my friend nigel here is the recipe for the xmas bacon I made last night..1 glass of wineLoud MusicSlipping into something more comfortableoh sorry wrong blog again...First of all make sure the pork is well refrigerated, whilst in the

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What a funny few days we have had over here, what was going to be a quiet time turned hectic again... Oh and profitable..Thursday was packaging day and designing the new labels I've swapped to vellum after a few misses to start with got the hang of how the printing is not like on my normal pearlesant paper, the results were really nice with a old faded look that is a bit dreamy. I think I may use

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Ok at about 2am this morning while waiting what felt like forever to move my comp files.. little ol me had a brain wave or maybe a total mental deviation...It is supposed to be my intention this week to rebuild my computer (oh the new case looks like its out of a transformer movie total boy racer with so much cooling and fans it will be like having aircon..) I've had a nightmare redoing this one

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The Friendship Around The World Award.I am really honored to be awarded this award from Dairy Soap Girl I love her blogs and soap, The rules say to pass it on to 8 people I think deserve the award I really wish I could pass it back as well...This award was originally written in Spanish but it translates to highlight blogs that are pleasing or special in some way, and also to extend the hand of

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Have you ever had just one of those days where you wish you could get away from it all....Mine normally start with the morning battle of getting the apple of my left eye up for work.... hehe i've even stood at her door when she thinks i'm in my room, what a picture said apple of eye still well wrapped in her covers shouting yes mum i'm just getting dressed....I had one of those days where

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..... computer in terminal overload (err I tried to get a bit to clever) laymans terms it's a bit broke and I've got to pack for an early flight to france in the morning.... eek back in a week....week in summary..mon*sent gifts for pink party made cinnamon butter.. (daisy girl I will post recipe and instructions on return thank you millions for award) computer started arguing with me..tue*flew

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It's my little sisters birthday today, Happy Birthday honey ....xxI also found out today I'm an aunt again our little sister had a baby boy.. Congratulations Rach x x xI was all out of inspiration as to what tribute I should write on my sisters memorial site so I had to borrow a poem some one else had wrote... it summed things up well..A sister is a forever friend.A sister is a special kind of

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When I ordered the shopping it was with Cowboy Beans and pork in mind err ok I sort of changed my mind...Thinking I could do with a lift I made Cowbot beans/italian pork/nutter combe.Slow cooked beans and pork with panetta fresh tomatoes, onions, yellow and orange peppers with tom puree, when almost ready seasoned with Jim bean barbeque sauce a touch of brown sugar put back in oven open with 2

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It's been a strange few days, but when isnt it ...A mad morning rush after I woke up on friday thinking (its thursday) oh nice a lovely snuggly bed and nothing to rush for today... Oh how wrong I was, it took a little while to realize it was friday and not thursday and I had a funeral to go to and 15mins to get ready.. This always happens to me I think the calendar in my head is running on a

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It's a shh day today as I've been spending again oh dear!!I thought I'd treat my darling beloved teenage fruit of my womb ( you dont want to know what it is on a bad day).. So of I toddled to the Hair salon suppliers, eek almost a mortgage later she is not kitted out with some wicked scissor holdy things and a zipped apron etc, she hates the things she is supposed to buy so we like to find

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Yup I did it I made my blue egg soap, yep it actually is blue eggs that I used.My lavender chickens lay blue eggs.. I've tried to take a picture with the eggs but I am no photographer and the flash makes them look more white. I'll try again tomorrow when I am making my butter bombes..I put lashings of castor oil in, well not to much. A few egg yolks and honey, I originally made this soap with

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A quick tip......Never go on the garden trampoline after egg collecting and forgetting the eggs in your pockets....Umm I think I might make blue egg soap!! They were the only eggs to survive.....

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Well we set of again the weekend just gone to add another bit of the english coast to our travels, we hope to eventually have driven the whole of the british coast that can be driven..We went beach treasure hunting but there was'nt anything apart from seaweed on the beach we were at ... so promptly pocketing some fine seaweed and depocketing my blooming phone again (totally lost this time so

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When i started making soap again I swore I was not going to do foodie type soaps, I'm a part time aromatherapy/herbalist wanna be ( may even finish the courses) and naturally i thought that would be the way the soap bubbles went... But alas famous last words have been spoken by bigger people than me...As a silly prank my beloved little friend Hannah Babe entered both of us into the local craft

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The thing about making my sons fav cheesecake is I cant really eat it, bit of a pain really.. So technically the recipe is followed with a little taste here and there and I mean just a little but it would be nice to have a slice so I know its how it should be.. Well he loved his cheesecake I made him so i thought I'd make one for myself that I can use.. Strange thing about chocolate though I

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Opps finally made it she says skidding to a halt.....Ok I've promised myself for a while I'd get a blog but what with one thing and another it was just a a pain in the proverbial...What with family trauma and building a website I'm surprised I've only got 3 Grey hairs, mind you they are my first and long awaited they have been..Well about me... umm I'm slightly quirky and eccentric and love

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