No time to scrap.

I managed to get a photo of my soap today. I took a couple of the rectangle bars and beveled the edges to see what they would be like, and then put them all together and snapped a photo. The rectangle soap is the one I did the other day by myself...so it's my "first" soap, the other two are two of the ones we did in class this last weekend.

The rectangle is just plain Jersey Milk Soap, the flower is Oatmeal, Goat Milk & Honey, and the green bar is a Shampoo Bar. Now it has to age for a few weeks before we use it, so it hardens up more. I have used crumbs off of it to wash my hands and test how it's doing, and it seems to be working...so I guess I did ok with my first soap. :)

I also made some 100% whole wheat bread today using my usual recipe (where I usually added some white flour to the batch, so it wasn't to hard and dry) only I added some dough conditioners I read about here to the recipe. It just came out of the oven so it's hard to know for sure, but I think it did pretty good. It's nice and tall and spongy for now...not quite as much as it is with some white flour maybe (spongy wise) but not to much different.

I've been wanting to be able to use 100% whole wheat flour, that I grind with my wheat grinder, but haven't before now...cause I didn't know to add the other 4 ingredients so it would turn out more like we like it. Course it takes a while to get enough flour ground since my grinder isn't electric...and thankfully DH helped me yesterday so I could get some other things done too, but it's worth it to have bread that is 100% fresh ground! :) Maybe one of these days I'll be able to get the motor attachment for my grinder...or a cheaper electric one, so I don't have to spend so much time doing the grinding, but till then I'm just happy to have what I have. :)

I haven't, however, managed to find time to scrap this week. I don't know what keeps me so busy, but something sure does...cause I run out of time to do everything. I guess if I don't make sure I scrap in the mornings I just can't get to it, and I've not been able to any morning this week. :( I just keep getting further and further behind on scrapping this years photos. *sigh*

I have piddled with a new template for my blog, the few times I've had a moment to play, using one of my old blogs, so It doesn't matter if I mess it up...and while I have gotten it fixed so there are three columns, I can't get a background to go on it like I want it to. It's only going on part of the page, not stretching all the way across it. I love messing with html and all...but when I get stuck, it BUGS me till I figure it out. Only problem is, I've not been able to figure out why it's not working, cause I've checked to make sure it's like I've read to do it several times...and checked it with more than one set of instructions, so I'm about BUGGED out I think. LOL I gotta take a break or I'll go insane...so hopefully I can forget about it for a few days....or weeks...although I won't hold my breath. I may be forgetful, but not about stuff that "bug" me this much usually. LOL

Well better run, still have things to do in the kitchen, before I make supper. Hope everyone's week is going good! Stay cool out there...if possible! :)