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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Hooray! There’s a new butcher in town! (Ironically related to the other butcher, but well, it is the Huon Valley.) We stopped by the newly sold and reopened @huonvalleymeatco today on our way to pick up our groceries. They’re reopening their own processing rooms soon, so fingers crossed for more ethically grown and processed meat. #knowyourmeat #huonvalley #huonvalleymeatco

Snack options are doing my head in. I want sugary biscuits, despite knowing full well how they make me feel. My go to recipe book is lots of coconut oil in recipes business, and I personally think coconut oil is for soap, not eating. Can you help?

Book week Ewok! #bookweek2018 #ewok #bookweek

Book week costumes: BEGIN. #facepalm #thekidwantstobeaPLANE

My incredibly lovely neighbour delivers firewood to us. He brought us a load this week as we were down to the last row on this first picture. This load seemed so large that I actually called him to confirm if it was one or two? ‘Nah, kiddo, that’s one load there. I’ll bring the second on Satdee or Sundee.’ Bless. #countryliving #farmfitnotcrossfit #firewoodrulesmywinter

Progress. - A snapshot into my creative mind in an almost literal sense. Curing soaps on either side of my cutting table, extra triangles (what to do with those?) and @leannefanny’s gorgeous printed FQ. Not pictures: cat terrified of the wind, continually attempting to perch on my lap. #creativity #mrssmythmadethis #catsofinstagram

Sometimes there is the briefest of windows where two adults can be adults without children and be alone. With their bikes. We found 45 minutes to be those people today. A slow (PAIN FREE 💪🏻) 10km before school pickup is just what I needed to give anxiety the middle finger and spend time with my divine Mr S. #ridegiant #sleepingbeautyrange #bikes

Oh my! It worked! I’m loving the new soap recipe, and I’m loving the carnival of colours in these. Passionfruit and Pear scented, a shea butter cold process soap. Off to the racks to sit for a few weeks, then they’ll be ready for a sale in September. Are YOU ready to snap up some awesome soaps in September? #coldprocesssoap #mrssmythmadethis #handmadeintasmania #tasmania #brambleon #meltandpour

Double trouble today! It’s a pure experiment - a shea butter cold process loaf filled with melt and pour confetti embeds. Scented with Anjou Pear and Passionfruit. I’ll be curious to see how it unfolds when I slice it. #coldprocesssoap #brambleon #meltandpour #rainbowconfettisoap #mrssmythmadethis #handmadeintasmania #kitchenscience

Friday! Soap day!

Fresh cuts - activated charcoal with shea butter. A really firm soap with a severe water discount. These will look amazing after being trimmed up properly, but for now I’m delighted with their planetary goodness. #brambleon #coldprocesssoap #handmadeintasmania #tasmania #handmadeisbestmade

I soaped today - my version of @mamabasshandmadesoap and @royaltysoaps galaxies soaps, these use activated charcoal. My greens and blacks were already starting to morph when I took these pics, I’ll be so keen to see what happens tomorrow. Scented with @eromastore Crushed Lime and Sea Salt and Fuzzy Orange fragrances. My children are playing a melodian next to my head. Please save me. #coldprocesssoap #galaxy #melodian

Winter, y’all. Am down to sleeveless shirt shifting firewood. Perfect weather for it! #farmfit

Wednesday was ‘bring a kid to work so you can do the urgent stuff then take her to school and go home to tag team your husband to go to work and you look after the other sick kid’ day. Said work kid was brilliantly entertained by a device until she discovered my work stamps. To be fair, the general mail stamp makes a cracking good noise. Ker-chunk.

Tonight’s dinner - @tiffhall_xo One Pan Beans with Chorizo, Artichokes and Fetta. Kids will pick out the chorizo, Mr S will pick out the artichokes and I will eat the lot! The recipe is quite plain - I like more spices so naturally I’ve twiddled with it. Smells good. Fingers crossed! #teamtiff #tiffxo #tiffxofood #eatingrealfood

Freshly sewn, unpressed, still delightful to look at. Every time I sew the geese together I find a new favourite combo. Today - the pink gingham and peacock print. #sew #quiltallthescraps #rainbowquilt #notaboutsoap

It was a good mail day today. Thank you @iamhappyiamhere - you are a lady of my own heart - this was so beautifully wrapped! I gift wrap all of my soaps before I post them so my customers get to open GIFTS! Can’t wait to sit down with a cuppa and get writing. Xx #iamhappyiamhere #attitudeofgratitude

Today is lit. One sick kid, went to work for two jam packed hours with the other one, and we suspect my computer has a virus. Sick kid being entertained by Netflix. Shall we watch some paint dry too? #iusedhiplanguage #35

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