buggery | Spam post #1: Soap

I'm feeling refreshed and happy and, in a fit of mild mania, I'm going to spam my LJ (and, by extension, the friends lists of many people).

Yesterday, while out shopping at a newly-opened discount/dollar store, I found, to my great surprise and delight, violet soap. (You know how scents are tied to memory? Lots of GOOD childhood memories tied to the smell of violet essence, for me.) I used it this morning, and I just smell like violets all over and I'm loving it like mad.

(At the same store, they had really cool Justice League colouring books, the kind that come with stickers and actually have a storyline. The art's even decent, much better than what you tend to see in superhero-franchise colouring books. I'll be in the area again tomorrow, so if anybody wants me to grab them one before they're gone, drop me a comment.)

Also this morning, I performed my first experiment with the soap-making supplies I acquired last week (little block of blue glycerine soap, little block of green cocoa butter soap, giant log of hemp-oil glycerine soap, citrus scent extract, little molds). The little soaps turned out well, and though further experimentation will be required, I should be able to make nice hand-made soaps for Mother's Day gifts. (I'm also doing long-handled loofah brushes -- I picked up a whole loofah gourd some months ago, they are HUGE! It's big enough to make 5 or 6 individual-use sized loofahs, and the seeds were great for a rattle I had that needed new rattly insides.)

::deep breath:: This is SO cool. I even smell gay today.