Soap More Soap

And a basket!!! I finally finished my condiments basket!
Complete with little loop to hold the spoon I use to liberally sprinkle garlic salt on everything!

I took so long to finish this one off but pretty happy with it

(Bottom) Just love the variations in the natural colours!

I feel like now I should be investing in prettier condiment containers!!

Within the last 8 days I’ve had two markets and one workshop. So I’ve been all about soap… plus trying to make the last Christmas soaps to be ready cured before Christmas!

This soap was the demo for students to have a go at cutting

(I think that was Black Raspberry and Vanilla)

A fun bunch of ladies attended last Sunday…
Above was the lovely oatmeal, milk and honey fragrance with a pretty blue drop swirl, made by Genevene. She added a little gold to the top too!

Bernadette used a spicy rose and (something I forget and am too lazy to get off this chair to find the bottle) fragrance
She used the dusky rose clay with some poppy seeds for a scrub
Also we put the patterned bottom on these

Jo did a bit of a fun swirl – with the Kakadu Plum fragrance

She also bought her own mould which we used with the leftover mix…
So. Darn. Cute!

Louise did the soap workshop with Sharon but hasn’t made soap in a while and wanted a refresher and some inspiration.
She had fun experimenting and I love the effect of the sprinkles at the bottom of the mould. They look like soap geodes..

Edna had a lot of fun mixing these beautiful colours into pretty moulds. (Edna usually goes to basket weaving with me and has been eyeing off the soap workshop for a while!)

She wanted to do some gold but by the time she told me it was a bit late, so when I unmoulded them I took some liberties and hand painted a few with gold highlights. She was quite thrilled when she collected them on Friday!
(Baby Powder fragrance)

My show off demo soap was done with Anjou Pear and Lemon Zest.
This design never fails to please 🙂

On the home soaping front I’ve done more Christmas tree soap (I had some at the markets which have been popular.
I also got a new embed mould… lots of owls! So I put them into some square soaps with a bit of gold swirl to fancy it all up!
(Oud Wood and Moss)

And the soap I have had the most fun with lately…. ducks!

We were watching a Japanese Anime and there were these little funny duck characters and I thought their design might be simple enough to make out of soap!
So I did!

Their faces are such a crack up!

I managed to unmould and cut without duck injury and rather pleased with this first go!
I would make the blue ‘water’ part a bit more wave-like for any future soaps!

Well… thats it from me.
I had a market today and I am feeling like bed would be a splendid idea!

Hope your weekend is going well
Cheers