Oh, yes, completely in love.

It started with an overabundance of milk, and my need to use it up before leaving for a week. I decided to bust out a quick batch of soap while waiting for some of the milk to heat to an appropriate temperature for yogurt.

I started with an organic glycerin soap base, and then I added a bunch of fresh goat’s milk - from Ginger, my goat. (Have I mentioned I have a goat? Yeah. She lives in rural Swan at Sugar Creek Family Farm. She is the queen of the barnyard, at least in her opinion. And she produces about 2 gallons per day. um….  it’s a lot of milk.)

After that, I threw in a dollop of raw honey from Cypress Grove Farms, also in Swan.

And I added a touch of honey fragrance for a bit of boost to the honey scent.

mmmmm.

There is a LOT of milk in this soap, making it really a lot like taking a milk bath. It’s very soothing and gentle, not drying at all. I fell in love with it while suffering from some sort of rash from an unidentified weed of some sort that itched like crazy. It was so nice feeling on my irritated skin. And the scent is pleasant but not overwhelming.

Yeah, I love it. Want to try it? Available at Etsy!

May’s theme for the Etsy Cloth Diaper Team is Flower Power, so in honor of May, I’ve listed this fitted diaper over at Etsy.

This bag is currently available on Etsy.

There’s a few more, too. These are all Mediums. All going up on Etsy soonish.

Earthy Swirl: Raspberry, Avocado, Chocolate, and Navy

Charcoal Target

Citrus Stripes: Yellow, Orange, Red

Bright Swirl: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple

Diagonal: Blue, Red, Orange, Yellow

I Got the Blues: 3 shades of blue

Blue Targets

SECOND QUALITY: This will be thrown in as a gift with a purchase. It’s just not a very good quality diaper to start with.

Raspberry, Avocado, Camel

Blue Shibori

OK, how cute are these? These are all smalls, I have some Mediums I’ll finish up on Monday.

The last one pictured is up at Etsy now. The others will make it over there next week.

We bought these napkins on clearance at a local store, then I stenciled them. Fun! Available at Etsy.

As you might be aware, I have a slight book problem. As in, I buy them obsessively. In the last few years, I’ve started buying (or rescuing from the garbage) those pathetic, scribbled on, falling apart children’s books left at the end of used book sales. Then I make new things out of them.

Bubble magnets are apparently the world’s easiest craft project, but I’ve never made them. They were pretty simple to make, and super fun, too. The ones pictured here are spoken for, but I have some listed over at Etsy if they strike your fancy. (Jungle Book, Sesame Street. more to come.)

And you can read more about who these magnets are headed to over at An Epic Journey (my 101 in 1001 project).

On a whim, I ordered molds to make awareness ribbon soaps, hoping it would arrive before my friends left for the ICAN National Conference. The molds got here on time, and I whipped up some ICAN/C-Section Awareness soaps for the auction at the conference, which is a fundraiser for ICAN. These were fun to make. I have some listed over at Etsy, and a portion of each sale is going to ICAN of Central Iowa.

I really enjoyed making these. I had a TON of these shirts from when Wally was a baby. He really never wore them, and Genna didn’t wear them, so I didn’t want to put them back in the Newborn Clothes bin. Instead, Wally and I low water immersion dyed them (in little cups). I’ll be taking them to Oh, Baby tomorrow (Methodist Hospital, be there!) and then, if they don’t sell there, listing them at Etsy.