Hey there!
Its nice to be back home – haven’t taken time to sit and do more hiking photos, but since I have a couple of markets and a couple of workshops coming up I’ve tried to get more soap happening
Still working on Christmas designs. Above trying to incorporate the ‘shimmy’ with the Christmas tree and colours.
Thought I’d try again with a colour switch and I am rapt with the results so I will stick with the one below
A young cousin (Ange) came over to do some soap with me. She had taken a workshop with Sharon a while back but wanted to see how I do some of my designs
I showed Ange how to do the ‘Taiwan Swirl’ and she chose these colours and the Oatmeal, Milk and Honey fragrance. They turned out so pretty! Esp with the gold swirl on top!
I wanted to try to recreate the ‘Phoenix Rising’ soap and thought it would be a good design to show Ange. We both did the pour and once I showed her how to finish off the design, she did the rest.
The cut turned out amazing. Really love this combo.
The one I did for the class as a demo I handed over to the co-ordinator on Friday and by today she had sold all but three I think! So popular! (There are 16 bars so thats pretty quick!)
Got some new moulds so having fun giving them a go
Pretty colours and designs
Also did a ‘peacock swirl’ in my slab mould with Lemon Myrtle as the fragrance
I should be getting a new cutter that will cope with my slab mould soap. Looking forward to that.
And then… another attempt at soap dough!
Too late I thought it would have been smarter to do a half batch in case I really muffed it up!
Basically you mix the soap then wrap it in plastic wrap and seal in an airtight container for a day or two (discovered that two days is better)
Then take it out, smoosh and knead it so it goes a bit like play dough and re wrap.
A few days later it should be ready to work with
So, in the spirit of ignoring all housework, I’ve been getting in touch with my inner child and making ‘stuff’
I had the leaf cutter doovers, but nothing to cut out flowers… so I free hand ‘drew’ cut and squished into submission the flower design
Dusting with mica and sparkles made them more interesting
I can’t wait to make some soap suitable to pop these on top as an embellishment.
They do take quite some time though, so pricing might be a conundrum!
I really need to do more gardening but now I feel like I want to be sitting inside being creative with soap dough!!
Hope everyone is doing fine – I know a few of you are from the Florida area and I really hope you are all safe and sound.
Take care!!
Cheers
Wow, I’ve never seen soap dough… that takes soap making to a higher level. I would think creating with soap dough is for personal joy in the process, rather than for profit. You’d never recoup money for time spent. Love your flowers and leaves…. Beautiful little soap sculptures on their own. Maybe for gift giving? ❤️
Yes, you are right with the observation that its for the love not profit. I enjoy trying new things and it really is quite fun and relaxing. There are ways of using soap dough thats not quite so labour intensive, so when I get hold of the right tools that will be fun to explore too!
However… I think since the weather has turned mucky, today might be a ‘start cleaning out the pantry’ day!
Have a lovely day 🙂
As usual, your soap is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. It brightens up any day!
Thank-you so much Karen! 🙂