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Blogtoberfest Day 15 - The Day That Was Hot And Cold

It's getting a bit hard to come up with something captivating to write about. Honestly my life is not that interesting and I'm beginning to feel the pressure.

That's so not hot!

So I'm stealing an idea from Loobylu and doing a what's hot + what's not post.

HOT

• The weather. It's sunny and warm and glorious. I'm enjoying it before it gets too hot and finds itself in the NOT HOT section.
• The tepee above. I actually think my life would be complete if I owned a couple (must be more than one or the girls will fight over it).
• Credit cards. Used up all your allowance for the week? Not a problem, just pull out one of these little beauties and the bank will give you some more spending money. Genius.

NOT HOT

• Broken vacuum cleaners. I was wondering for a while why my vacuum cleaner wasn't doing a great job. Turns out mine has holes in the rubber tube thingy.
• Sick kids. I'm beginning to think Little J has Swine flu or something. It's been a week and she's still knocked out. Back to the doctors tomorrow.
• Mess. Yeah I know, there's two kids in the house I just need to deal but it's like the opposite of a black hole. Mess just seems to spill out from nowhere onto my floors.

Things I Want

But can’t think of a single reason to buy…

Left Column:

Nice Day for a White Wedding by clairelafaye

Luciano the Mouse by cynicthelamb

Grey/white Antique Buffet by SparrowsNest1

Bird Cupcake Stand by whitneysmith

Custom Wedding Cake Toppers or Centerpiece by dandelionland

Middle Column:

Baby Legs Ceramic Salt and Pepper Shakers LooK Still Kickin by modernfx

necklush ultra – red by necklush

IVORY Raw Silk Victorian Inspired Shoulder Wrap by bonzie

Eddie Friedman's Porcelain Dental Mold by blogbloglog

Right Column:

Tiffany Blue Chair by SparrowsNest1

Keep Calm and Carry On Print Poster by queensorder

Standing Fern Kitchen Towels by themudpuddle

Vintage Lace Wedding Shrug by hollystalder

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

A video about a small group of women who are selling bath and body products.

Bring it on I say.

I Do Like A Pretty Wall Decoration

And if Big B would get a 100% pay rise effective immediately, I would totally go to town.

Packaging I Wished I’d Thought Of

On the subject of packaging. Here’s a huge collection of fantastically packaged products. There’s not a single thing here I wouldn’t want to receive in the mail.

Looking at the soaps in the photos they all look triple-milled to me. Which is a wonderful way of making soap, it produces a long lasting, smooth as silk soap. I’d love to do some triple-milled soap but the problem is is you need big heavy, specially built machinery for the job. That's completely out of my range right now but in the future it would be nice to do some special soaps and get them made for me. Wonder if any places do that sort of thing?

New Beginnings

Notice anything different about the blog? A couple of slight changes that have you thinking ‘huh?’

No? Ok, never mind, carry on.

 

 

Alright, I’ll tell you. I changed my name, not because I like to keep everyone on their toes but because I had to. It appears that in Australia you cannot have a business with the word ‘society’ in it unless you are a not for profit organisation. Since I’m defiantly not going down that route I decided to pick another name and just love it, no matter what.

So it’s goodbye Delight Society and hello Empire of Delight.

I still love Delight Society and loved the play on words it made with ‘polite society’. And I’m keeping the domain name too because you never know what’s going to happen in the future and maybe I will do some philanthropy later on. So just in case I’m keeping the name.

Mum’s not so thrilled on the name but I’ve decided to just love it and embrace the change.

Inspiring Studio and Office

As my soap business slowly moves from dream to reality I’m able to see myself in situations I hadn’t before. I picture myself in a gorgeously decorated office, an awesome workshop with loads of shelf space and a space, dedicated to wrapping and parcels and creating pretty packages. And a laptop sitting on the desk, because for some reason that's one of the symbols of my success.

Check out these pics of the PAPAYA! offices and storeroom.

 

Look at this…chandeliers in the store room.

And I think how amazing it would be to have a space like that one day. And then I think no way because I’m so stingy when it comes to things like that, how could I ever justify chandeliers in the store room or luxurious sofas in the office. Perhaps after the company is raking in the cash and I’ve worked three years without drawing a wage I’ll have a change of heart. But at the moment it’s in the ‘way out of my league’ file.

Right now I’d be happy with a filing cabinet.

Currently Reading…

“Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You. A guide to the universe” by Marcus Chown.

It’s a book that puts quantum theory and Einstein’s theory of relativity into easy, readable language. What I’d most like to write is that I find it interesting and informative, able now to discuss quantum theory as easily as I can the latest episode of House.

Shamefully I have to admit I’m only getting about 50% of the content. I have no idea what ‘interference’ is with regards to the atom or how a quantum computer could work or why light is made up of waves and particles. Please don’t ask me any of these questions, I can’t answer them.

This is not the first science book I’ve read. I very much enjoyed “The Universe in a Nutshell” by Stephen Hawking and “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson was a hoot. Hawking even dedicated a chapter to ‘String Theory’ and I’m pretty sure I got that.

It’s because quantum theory is beyond comprehension and most of the time sounds like scientists are just grabbing answers out of thin air. For example…an experiment produces identical events and they are indistinguishable “just as long as nobody looks”.

Thankfully I’m not the only one who feels the same way. Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann was on a sea voyage with Einstein in 1921 and said: “Einstein explained his theory to me every day and, on my arrival, I was fully convinced that he understood it!”

So Sweet

Lotta just wrote the nicest things about me on her blog yesterday. I wish I could say it’s all true but really I just passed on an idea someone gave to me and all the hard work is down to Lotta.

Thankyou Lotta. You are so inspiring to me. You work, look after your two sons, make exceptional jewellery that is being sold everywhere and always look so damn stylish. Actually my friendship with you is purely for selfish reasons, I use you as a gage of how hard I could be working and how much I can achieve.

In Other News

I finished painting the feature wall in the kids playroom today. And apart from the splashes of green paint on the cornices and all over myself it was a total success. No picks yet…I need to clean up first.

Also got my first Etsy Treasury today. It was so exciting.

I dedicated it to my favourite thing in the world. Chocolate. The people who know me know me well enough to know that if the family and a block of chocolate were going down with a sinking ship I’d save the chocolate first before the kids. And I’d only save them so they could help me rescue more chocolate.