Last Saturday I had three things on my “must do” list.

1. Make homemade ginger ale
2. Make some peppermint sugar soap bars
3. Make some French Toast to use up some day old French bread slices

Sounds easy enough.  I didn’t have any other obligations or specific plans.  Saturday morning I decided to go the resale shop in search of a used crock pot or sauce pan to use for the soap making.  I thought I may as well look for a new soap mold since I was out and about anyway.  I found a small crockpot at Goodwill and a silicone ice tray at T. J. Maxx that would work great.  Score!   On the way back to the house we drove passed a Baskin Robbins and it just sounded so good!  So yes, I diverted again and it was delicious!

Finally back home, it was 4:00 PM and I was about to start making the ginger ale.  Then I got an invitation to go to the theatre and watch the Avengers.  Hmm…. What to do?

Okay, so I did hesitate briefly but not long.  Avengers won out of course.  I organized the supplies and then headed for the shower to get ready for my movie date.  I did watch a video on how to make a box out of cardstock on my way to the movies, so I was somewhat productive.

I vowed to finish at least one of my projects when I returned home after the movie.  Nope, never happened.  By the time we arrived back home, it was after 9:30 PM and my thoughts were filled with mutants.  The last thing I wanted to do was stay up late and be creative.

Up at 5:30 AM on Sunday, I started the ginger ale first.  Water boiling, ginger root peeled and lemons juiced, I was off to a good start.

While the ginger mixture simmered, I pulled out my soap supplies and added the melt and pour pieces to my new “old” crockpot.  I lined up the sugar, essential oils, coconut oil etc.  Woohoo!  Things were coming together.

Time to start on the French toast.  Naturally I decided to try a new recipe.  After I beat the eggs and milk together, I stirred in the warm honey.  (I had to warm the honey, because it had thickened too much to pour.) The honey clumped as soon as it hit the cold egg and cream mixture.  Oops, not what I intended.

As I pondered the best way to handle the honey, I noticed my soap mixture was melted and it was time to start mixing it together to pour into the molds.  There was no way I could finish the French toast in time for breakfast and get the soap into molds at the same time.  I turned the soap off so I could finish the French toast.  I warmed the mixture slightly, beat it with a fork to incorporate the honey and then promptly added chopped, frozen cherry pieces to the mix for flavor.  I really should have realized the cold cherries would solidify the honey, but, well I didn’t.

Just in case the toast wasn’t edible, I quickly mixed up some pancakes as well.  Breakfast was ready, everyone was up and pancakes disappeared much faster than the toast.

After breakfast, I poured the ginger ale into mason jars and refrigerated for later.  After cleaning up and putting everything else away I finally made it back to my soap.   Unfortunately, melting the soap base and then allowing it to cool and set made it difficult to reheat and melt.  I spent most of the afternoon trying to salvage the soap.  I finally got it all mixed, oils added and poured into the molds.  The soap didn’t look anything like the picture, but it set well, smelled nice and was pretty when packed in my handmade white box!

The ginger ale was delicious, the toast edible and the soap unexpectedly “soap”.  I guess two out of three ain’t bad.