June 27, 2015

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June 27, 2015/

Mrs Smyth Made This

Positivity and creativity are my passions. I'm here to share how I live my life with happiness and simplicity as my goals.

You can find me making soap, exercising, baking & cooking, organising cupboards, crafting up a messy messy storm, digging in the garden or sewing the latest quilt. Everyone always needs more quilts, right?

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Found a secondhand @trekbikes Crossrip for sale locally (unheard of). It’s time to check out the important bits. Geometry is errrrrrything. I should be wrapping 40 bars of soap... #newbikeplease #gravelbike #notaboutsoap

THE LAST LOAF OF SOAP FOR CHRISTMAS! ‘Waingro’ - a coffee scrub scented with fresh coffee, vanilla bean and coffee bean and coconut. Pre-orders are up in the store now! #coldprocesssoap #diytasmania #handmadeintasmania #soapersofinstagram

NEW SOAPS FOR PRE-ORDER - Stranger than Fiction (Brown Sugar and Fig), O, Christmas Tree (Australian Bush), Christmas Aurora (Crushed Lime and Rock Salt), Galactic Empire (Aquamarine and Oakmoss), a new batch of Gingerbread Man (Ginger, Apple Cinnamon and Vanilla) and Waingro (Coffee). Get ‘em while you can! link in bio - www.mrssmyth.com #coldprocesssoap #mrssmythmadethis

Sunday Planing Day. 60 bars planed for drying and the Galaxy soap is cut! I’ll be putting some more pre-orders up on the site this afternoon for Christmas ordering - stay tuned. #coldprocesssoap #diytasmania

Played a gig. Ate some food. Got to see @enolafall play for the first time in 7 years. My friend Lesley took this pic of me after we caught up for the first time in around 6 years. Lady Pip and I are dancing to an Enola Fall song ‘We Become Wolves’. Look it up, I promise it’s ace. #tasmania #livemusictasmania #enolafall

Wet soap: Galaxies redux. Aquamarine and oakmoss, planets aplenty inside. Will go up for preorder Saturday. #coldprocesssoap #planetsoap #space #soapisagreatgift #diytasmania

It’s 7.38pm, kids are in bed, rice is cooking for dahl. Is this the glorious ‘side hustle’ that gets bandied about? I’m bezausted and want to curl up with a book, but torn between the stress of getting it done vs the guilt of being unable to relax because it’s not done. I Mel Robbins’d it and 5-4-3-2-1 it’s freaking getting done. #tinytinybusiness #tinybatchsoapbusiness #coldprocesssoap #soapbusiness #ferdagirls

Something something Christmas. Wet soap. Australian Bush FO and LORDY it smells amazing. I made this batch to use some newly purchased sodium lactate as a hardener... and despite it being next to me the entire time, I forgot to add it in. It will still work fine, might just need a day longer in the mold. #wetsoap #coldprocesssoap #twomorebatchesofsoapforchristmas

I don’t really understand what’s happening here but I do love all the toe beans and fluffy butt. (@lizosaurus @jarodface ) #custardspam #catsoﬁnstagram

Millie hit her riding goal today. She’s been so sick with a cold but has been intent on reaching her kilometre goal to finish out the month. I’m so proud of her! #greatcyclechallenge2018

M (right) desperately needed 13km to make her goal. P (left) does not enjoy riding her bike as much as the rest of her family (😭😭😭) Her face pretty much says it all. I call this ride ‘Mum made us ride in the wind and rain.’ I say ‘Weather schmether. We are lucky enough to not have a serious illness, woke up today, are able to see and walk, today is a miracle.’ Kids say ‘Mum made us ride in the rain.’ 😂 Mil now has 9km to go. #greatcyclechallenge2018

Today I took Millie and her mate T for a ride to help M get her kilometres up for @greatcyclechallenge - her goal is 50km! We rolled up every side street we found and thoroughly explored our little town. We rode 10.5km and that’s the furthest each of these legends has ever ridden! I’m so proud of them both. Millie is now 37km down, 13km to go! Millie has raised $1100, and as a team we’ve raised $2400 - all for children’s cancer research. #greatcyclechallenge2018 #littlelegends #minininja #tiffxo

Hi friends, I’m breaking protocol here but I’m asking for your help. This is my Mr S, who’s also doing @greatcyclechallenge with Millie and I. He is SO close to a $500 goal that I wanted to ask if you were able to pop along to the link in my bio and help him out a little. He set a 400km for riding, but if you swipe through you can see that he’s smashed that and it’s not the end of the month yet. Yesterday he did his first Century ride (100km, 112km precisely) and has been averaging over 150km per week. All of the money raised is for such a great charity - all help is appreciated. I can’t imagine if one of my girls had cancer, and I hope we never will. Let’s find a cure. #greatcyclechallenge2018 #curecancer

It’s that time of year again! Birthday dress for my littlest, who turns 6! 6!!???!!! Another tried and true mash up of @madebyrae Geranium and @made_everyday First Day dresses. Always my favourites. #birthdaydress #sewing #notaboutsoap

My first employee! My employee is saving for her first sewing machine and I have a mountain of soaps to wrap and label. Works well for everyone! #mrssmythmadethis #coldprocesssoap

It’s getting a bit out of control in here. Eep! This is the part where I fake it til I make it, right? #soapeverywhere #coldprocesssoap #preorders #faaaark

Two episodes of ‘The Good Place’ on my trainer, and I made it. I set a low goal this year as persistent PSOAS pain had me second guessing myself. But hooray for lady physios and a Mr S doing great bike adjustments. How many more to add before October’s end? 🤔 #greatcyclechallenge2018

Hi! I’m Brown Sugar and Fig fragrance oil. I smell AMAZING, but I don’t like to play nicely with soap. First time I riced and left oil spots, second time I did this. I’m relegated to candles and home decor items, not soap. #fragranceoilshaming #ihavealotofuglysoaptouse #20barsactually #guesswhatmyfamilygetforchristmas #itisWineTime

As a tiny business owner I love to support other small businesses, especially Australian ones. That said, - colleague and I paid @ekoworx $104 on October 1. As of yet my order isn’t shipped, which I believed would happen in 2-4 days. FOUR phone calls later and four promises of ‘in the next couple of days’ my order still hasn’t been shipped as they are still shipping September orders. Yesterday they refunded 10% of my order cost because of their shipping delays. I’m wondering if the products exist. I’m wondering why Ecoworx continue to bombard social media with advertising for orders they clearly can’t fulfill in a reasonable timeframe. I don’t want a refund, I want my order. I’d like other customers to not experience this company in this fashion. Yes, I called the ACCC for their false advertising delivery times and failure to deliver in a reasonable timeframe. All of that said, their phone staff are amazing and I feel quite sorry for them having to answer all the questions they don’t have answers to. #ekoworx #shitcustomerservice

When your favourite soap making coconut oil is on sale for $9kg instead of $14/kg... you buy up? What does this mean? Lots of soap to come! 💯 #coldprocesssoap #soapmakingsupplies

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