No Soaping Allowed!!

 

Don't know how it happened but I have an inflamed Achilles Tendon and the doctor says to stay off my foot for 2 weeks.....this is the beginning of the second week and I am having soaping withdraw.  Don't miss the cooking and cleaning but not making soap is tough LOL!  Here's a little cupcake that has just finished curing and smells wonderful!

 

I used Puakenikeni Hawaiian Flower fragrance oil from Nature's Garden.  This is the flower the Hawaiians use to make their leis.  A very floral and exoctic scent.

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

 

Blessings,

Gloria

 

 

Wisteria Rose

I just love this scent!  Nature's Garden describes this fragrance oil as a truly refreshing, clean aroma with top notes of fresh rose petals, middle notes of wisteria and cyclamen, bottom notes of sandlewood and vanilla.  I named this fragrance Wisteria Rose (more romantic) but Nature's Garden calls it China Rain LOL!

This fragrance oil soaped like a dream with no acceleration and plenty of time to play.

Blessings,

Gloria

Frosted Pumpkin....Yum!

Fall is my second favorite time of the year (next to summer of coarse)!  I love the cooler sleeping weather, the turning of the leaves, fall flowers, and PUMPKIN PIE!! 

I used Frosted Pumpkin fragrance oil from Nature's Garden.  Out of the bottle it smells amazing and the scent in my soap is awesome!  I hope it doesn't fade after cure....makes my house smell like I'm baking a pumpkin pie! 

And I designed this little Raggedy Ann box to hold the soap.

Blessings,

Gloria

New Cupcakes and Gift Box

Love to combine my two favorite things to do.....Soaping and scrapping!

Used Anjou Pear Blosooms FO from Nature's Garden.  This is a very light scent of fruits and florals with a touch of bergamot and vanilla.  The adorable little butterfly came from Tiny Little Charms an adorable little shop on Etsy.

My gift box was made using heavy cardboard and adorable digital cupcake images from anothe awesome shop on Etsy called WhimsyDust and they are so cute!

The little tag is Psalms 34:8









Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

 

Blessings,

Gloria

Love My New Mold!

Just got my new mold from Soap Making Resource and couldn't wait to try it out.

 

The fragrance is Cucumbers & Melons from Nature's Garden and it smells amazing!  Hope the scent sticks.  I decided to not gel this soap because the colors are so pretty and creamy looking so I put it in the freezer until tomorrow morning.  Then I will let it thaw out for 24 hours before cutting.

I love that I can see the design through the mold.  This little mold only holds 2 pounds which is perfect when I'm trying out a new recipe or fragrance oil. 

I will post pictures in a few days of the cut bars.

Have a Blessed Day!

Gloria

Gift Box

Decided to get out my scrapbooking supplies and make a little gift box for my Juniper Breeze Soap.  This soap looks so much like ocean water that I decided to use a beach theme.  

The little beach girl tag is removable and perfect for a little note on the back.

Inside the soap is wrapped and tied with a little bow.  A tag is tucked in the ribbon which has the ingredients and weight printed on the back.

Had so much fun scrapping again!

Have a Blessed Day!

Gloria



Swirls Bah Humbug!

I have admired all the beautiful soaps that have the most awesome
swirls ever since I began soaping.  Well yesterday I decided to try my hand at it.  I have seen all the pretty soaps that were entered into the Mantra Swirl contest (given by Great Cakes Soapworks) on utube and thought I can do this....LOL!  After cutting out the dividers for my mold and preparing my soap dividing it into 4 different colors I poured.  DISASTER!!! 

My card board dividers collapsed and I had one big mess!!  I left it all in the mold and gelled overnite  for rebatching.

Not one to give up today I decided to try the linear Swirl from Soap Queen in my 9 bar slab mold.  I used a recipe with a lot of olive oil which usually moves very slow for me but used a fragrance oil called Beach Baby that I bought from Nature's Garden but has since been discontinued and I didn't have any info on how it soaped.  You can guess what happened ..... it riced on me and by the time I blended it out and added the colors I could barely scoop it into the mold!

Tried to make it look like waves LOL!

 

On a positive note it does smell good!

Have A Blessed Day!

Gloria