Burn outs

Well, the day finally arrived that I knew someday would, I blew up my trusty old cooktop that I make soap on. It didn't really blow up, there was more like a large spark, thick clouds of dark smoke and me sprinting faster than I ever knew I could to unplug it from the wall outlet. That was followed by my husband calling downstairs "what's burning down there?"

This incident was proceeded by my burning out my stick blender while trying to bring a stubborn batch of liquid soap to trace. That ironically happened while I was thinking that I should probably have a backup stick blender as stirring a batch of liquid soap by hand can be an all day venture and leave one with Popeye level biceps. It seems that I was just having a bad day.

So I packed my three year old and one year old off to shop for new appliances. Any of you that have or have had small children know that shopping with two impatient children does not usually make for a fun day. But we made it fun by stopping at Joann's Fabrics and shopping for some fun supplies to create for our big "Fancy Nancy" party next week at the local library. My three year old has talked about nothing else for the last two weeks and she and I will be decked out in all of our pink frilliness, tiaras, wands and tutus for this fancy tea party sponsored by the Fletcher Memorial Children's Library. Of course, we'll be bringing Summit Soapworks' party favors, our new "Strawberry Smoothie" lip balm. Should be a great time and I'm looking forward to sharing the day with my oldest daughter even though the frilliness part is a huge stretch for me who is certainly not a girlie-girl.

In the end, I have a temporary burner until I can shop without my girls for an electric cooktop and am back to making soap!