A Constructive Morning

I've be productive today! Isn't that a good feeling? Yesterday was a knitting day. I started on a new prayer shawl, and the beginning of a project is always motivating. I'll show you pictures of that later. This morning though, I rather forgot about the shawl. I decided to cut into bars the soap that I made yesterday. I had new scents: lilac, sweet pea, vanilla and sandalwood. After cutting soap, I began a new project -- making my own lip balm. I had ordered little 1/2 oz. jars from Sweet Cakes, a great site that sells soap supplies.

This lip balm has coconut oil, beeswax (yes, from our own bees!), vitamin E oil, and a little sweet pea fragrance oil. It cools and hardens so quickly after pouring, that I had to microwave it again, to finish pouring. You can see above the difference in the hardened balm, and the ones still a little liquidy.
(2 parts coconut oil to 1 part beeswax, plus a few drops of vit. E oil, and a little scented oil. Recipe from this website.)

It's creamy and smooth. I had a little left over, and Julia and I gave it a try. The beeswax is the ingredient that really makes this balm. No chemicals, all natural.

Some peaches were ripening away on the counter, so I decided to made a peach pie/crumble.

I'm here to let you know that it tastes great!!  Now if Adam asks, "Did you eat any lunch?" I can honestly say, "Yes!" heehee :)

This was made with a simple no-roll pastry crust, peaches, sugar, tapioca and lemon juice, and a crumble on top of brown sugar, butter, oats, flour, nutmeg and a little vanilla. After all these years of cooking, I don't really measure these things. That makes "throwing a pie together" so much easier.