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I've recently started back soaping after a long sabbatical to have my daughter and newborn care. Here are a few of my favorite recent projects. The Blue Celtic Molded bars are scented with LoveSpell FO, colored with blue iron oxide, and have gold sparkle mica decoration. They are a buttermilk...

I took a sabbatical during my pregnancy. Then once I had my daughter I took another sabbatical because newborns are just exhausting! The last few months have been a blur of sweet smiles and sleep deprivation. Arya Genevieve was born on December 6, 2012. She's now 10 months and life is...

I'm finally past the oh so exhausted stage of my pregnancy and had the energy to make some soap! 100% Sea Salt Bars, coconut oil with a bit of castor, and scented with Abalone from WSP. Colorants are blue oxide and high ph lab color Buttermilk bars with Kaolin Clay. Scented with Hot...

Has anyone used one of these? Since I watched the video on the website I've been sighing in soapy lust/love over one of these. I was thinking of sending the link to my husband as a very broad hint about what I want for Christmas, but I don't want to hint to him about it until I know it's worth...

When you soap, or do anything else that is creative? What really gets your creative juices flowing? Recently because it's been the Halloween season I've been listening to a lot of Danzig, the Misfits, Type O Negative etc. Sometimes if I'm calmer I'll switch to Tori Amos, Billy Holiday...

I was looking at the soaping with scents you hate thread, and thought about bringing this up there but didn't want to hijack the thread. Have you ever soaped any scents that you thought you'd hate, but after they cured you realized you loved them? They just completely caught you unawares and...

I'm determined to get an early start on the holidays this year. NO scrounging for gifts in December allowed! So last night after some intensive dusting in the living room and kitchen I made my first holiday soap. I was trying for neat layers separated by cocoa powder, as I'd seen someone do...

I've been super busy moving for the past few months, trying to get settled in and I've been sneakily making soaps in between cleaning and organizing. There's nothing fancy to see here, just some basics and experiments. Naturally I still love them because they are my soap babies. The...

been so busy checking shortening ingredients and picking up soap making oils at the local grocery store, that you forgot to pick up oil for cooking? Whoops! :oops:

I have a problem, and to prevent myself from committing the sort of violence that could be considered illegal I need to find a solution. My mailbox is on the side of the road. I live in the country, and my place is quite some distance from the mailbox. Last week, when I received my...

We all have them. Perhaps we should share them. As I was waiting in a drive through for about 15 minutes (making me almost late for work) this morning this topic occurred to me. My pet peeve for today. People who choose to complain to managers of fast food establishments while in the...

The surprise was for me, not my nephew. IE my SIL called me yesterday and asked me, "Are you still doing Cole's cake?" This was news to me, so dumbfounded I agreed. He wanted his High School Logo and colors, and the number 82 for some reason, even though he doesn't play sports or have any...

I was reading the common courtesy thread, and since this happened yesterday and is still fresh in my mind I thought I'd share it. Yesterday evening after work I stopped by my local Walmart to pick up some kitty litter and cat food. The trip was relatively uneventful, until I got to the...

So I made my first funnel swirl soap! It's goats milk, silk, kaolin clay, coconut, olive, castor, and palm oil, scented with BB's China Rain FO. I tinted half of it pink with diluted magenta lab color because the FO naturally discolors the soap to a color between mauve and tan. I figured I'd...

No gorgeous swirls of color here. I kept this simple and sweet. It's a buttermilk cp with 1 egg yolk ppo and lavender essential oil. I pretended I was making a custard and tempered the egg yolks into the hot oils. I really expected it to turn green for a week or so, but as you can see it came...

So last weekend, I made two batches of soap. When I cut them and tried to put them onto the shelf to cure I realized there was no room, and that I had about 4 batches of fully cured soap just sitting there. So I did what anyone would do, I gathered up all the cured soap and went in search of...

The reason I ask is because I have about 40 pounds of it. Actually there's a story involved here. Last weekend I ran out of lye! OH NO! So instead of ordering it offline and paying the crazy shipping charges and waiting anxiously for it to arrive I decided to once again look for it...

I've finally gotten the time to make some more soap. OK well actually I abandoned the dishes and the housework this weekend to do it and have been paying for it since, but I think it was worth it. The green and cream colored soap is goats milk and citrus cool basil. I had issues with it...

But none of them are actually using the soaps! They are all keeping them in various rooms of the house because they smell so good! Does anyone else have this problem? :-P

Here he is. King. He's a cockinese (cocker spaniel, pekingnese mix) that I found living in the woods. He's still not groomed here as I had him neutered last week, but his expression in this photo is so funny I had to share it. I had gotten up to go to the bathroom, when I returned he had...