I feel sorry for my Mom too but she's not asking anymore. My sister has the run of this place and it IS HURTING my marriage. Try 2 years of the same conversation over and over and over again with respect to DH & I asking if she would let us know if my sister wants to send the kids over. The asking stopped. The 'want' stopped. The 'by the way the kids are coming this afternoon, is that alright' or 'they're on their way for a visit' became the norm. Mom stopped letting us know and believe me - she mentally has all her faculties and is manipulating things to suit her need/want to have her grandchildren here whenever my sister wanted / needed to get them out of her hair. If you owned your home, and asked for over 2 years to have your homelife/marriage life respected and just got ignored and put a revolving door at the front so kids, sisters extra family not invited to stay just got dropped off for you to feed clean up after disrupt a movie/tv show your watching and enjoying disrupt a home renovation disrupt any planned activity hurt your marriage Cheeryfizz, unfortunately you really don't have the full picture. This is my home, my husband's home. My mother is a guest here. This is not the old family home - it's MY home and I'm PISSED. Don't feel sorry for my Mother - she's brought this on herself. I've quit my job over a year ago to look after her 24/7. I take sleeping pills because I lay awake at night to listen when she might go to the toilet and may fall. I got a medic alert alarm for her in case she falls and I actually do go into a normal level of sleep. My mother has been taking advantage of me since DH and I moved home from a very happy life in Scotland to look after her 24/7. Don't feel sorry for my Mom, she knows what she's doing. She left home at 16 to get away from her family and live her own life and never looked back. I'm 45 years old and still getting walked all over by my family. I wanted to put her in a care home with 24/7 care but she doesn't want it until now because she's not sure if she can handle living with my sister. Ever read the story - Cry Wolf? Cherryfizz I like you, and appreciate your feeling towards my Mom. Please believe me when I tell you my marriage is being hurt and my health has suffered enough. There aren't enough pills in the bottle to take to fix family problems. And it's not fair that I should need to take them to get through my day and sleep at night. If there is anything I haven't explained well, please let me know, I'll do my best to respond. I hope none if this is taken personally - after almost no sleep, 2 different pills to sleep each night, 2 prozac each morning - i'm not always writing clearly. I don't mean any offence to you Cherryfizz at all. I'm just hurting inside. I wish my Mom could stay but as long as she does, my sister will be interfering. I can't take it anymore. I have another sister and brother who have done NOTHING to help but sure know how to appear at meal time or holidays. Door's closed. Don't come back ya'll. The diner is closed. Cleaning services are gone and no more free meals or take out being served here. The maid is tired. I am the dishwasher and floor cleaner, laundry queen. I want to go back to work again - this has cost me over a year's income. My mother REFUSED to let me get her doctor to sign her as a dependant so I could claim back some lost wages.... do you still feel sorry for my Mom?

hey jill, thanks for thinking of me! i got my basset hound molds from them...they're pretty good molds. they're more rubbery than hard plastic so they were easy to pop out. or at least that's how my basset molds were. and yes, they have very unique molds and they also have some really random stuff in their inventory. they do alot of business on ebay. beautiful soaps...i can't tell if they painted or poured. both? they were quick with my stuff and the only drawback is how spendy they are. must. resist. spending...=D andrea

THere is a paint available to paint on soap, I think plaid makes it, (not 100% about the brand) you can paint on soap & candles with it. Check google, or else try your local craft store-Micheals, hobby lobby etc..... Also, there should be a color chart somewhere to mix dyes to get brown......don't know where though...... Hazel

Yea, it's no problem at all commenting on older posts. Ya'll weren't here and we are glad you are getting to look thru everything. Luvs~ you could have fielded this question since I learned how from you and soso. :) Let me see if I can remember everything we did. I just got some more soap to paint some Easter things on. First~ luvs suggested that you sand any rough edges with fine sandpaper. Then we just put on a few coats of the waterbased varnish. I found some at the craft store that had a matte finish, but I think luvs found some in a Satin finish. After it dried I just applied my pattern and painted it. It feels kinda ookie on your hands so I used gift wrap tissue to hold onto mine while I was painting it. Then just put a few coats of the waterbased varnish on at the end. I used some Delta Ceramcoat Gloss Varnish that I got in a little bottle at Walmart. For Christmas I found some little gold see-thru mesh bags at the $1 store and put the soap in them and then tied the bags onto a Christmas hand towel to give as gifts. Everybody loved them. Oh, and soso said that she puts a little tag on hers that says something like "Use from the bottom until only a sliver remains". Is that everything?? If not I hope someone else will add on. Luvs painted some with the one-stroke roses that are beautiful. I think it was Diana?? that painted some. I remember the Dora the Explorer one and maybe an Annie? Then Soso has some over on the Discussion side under the post "I'm Painting". She has a lot of different ones there to look at. Ok, I think that's everything. Ask questions if you need to. I asked a bunch the first time I did this. ~Anj