Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Back Again!

Hello!  It's been so long since I last blogged anything.   Staying too busy with my soaps, farmers markets, craft shows, baby goats and more are my excuses.  Then sometimes I wonder if anyone really cares about what's going on here in my little spot in the world.

Only three more craft shows this year and then I'll get a short break until late winter/early spring.  I still make goat milk soaps so I can fill any internet and wholesale orders I receive, but not as many as I make during the farmers' market season.  My Christmas scents this year are Woodland Elves, a nice piney, crisp scent; Frankincense & Myrrh; Pumpkin Pie; and Apple Jack & Peel.  Black Raspberry-Vanilla is my customers' all-time favorite and Lavender is also a good seller.  I did give a few small bars of goat milk soaps to a new friend who writes a travel blog.  She's going to use the soaps and write a review of them.

On the fiber front, I finally finished a pair of socks for my 2nd daughter that should have been done ages ago.  Now I need to put together a care package and mail it to her.  She's attending a university away from here and appreciates receiving stuff from home.  I just need to put package together for her more often.  Next I need to finish a sock cap for my hubby and even though it's not finished yet, I've started crocheting a beautiful, black, cotton poncho for me.  Will make one like it for my older daughter, but  in a different color.  It doesn't matter if she reads this; she already knows about it.  :)  And I also bought 5 sock yarns to knit socks for me and a lacy scarf or two.

I recently canned apple pie filling and dehydrated quite a few apples.  Looking forward to making granola once the oatmeal I ordered has arrived.

And during the last week and a half, eight baby goats arrived here at Patchwork Acres.  One more mama goat to go, but she'll be a while yet.  We got 7 little doelings and 1 little buckling.  Our first ever mostly doeling year!

And I've still been baking.  Today I baked a loaf of white bread with ground flax seed and a pan of cinnamon raison rolls with cream cheese frosting.  Family says not to bother if there's no cream cheese frosting.  I agree!  Still feeding and using my sourdough, too.  Have you heard of fermented foods?  You know, like sauerkraut?  I love sauerkraut and have been fermenting my own, as well as other  veggies.  Then once the baby goats are needing all of the milk, I can make more soft goat cheeses and freeze milk for making my soaps.  I am going to try making another goat milk product.  If it works, I'll post about it later.

Until next time!