10th ave. soapworks

My Mister (Extraordinaire) has been busy lately.  He made a mold for guest-sized bars and I was able to squeeze in a little time this week to try it out.  I love it!  I scented the batch with a lavender fragrance oil.  It's a new one for me, but so far I like it. Each bar weighs about an ounce--you can see how teeny they are next to a regular-sized bar.  I think I'm going to be making a lot of these in the future--they are so darn cute!

As many of you have noticed, I disappeared from the blogging world for awhile.  I've experienced some complications on my Wordpress blog, so until further notice, I'm back on my Blogger site.  But it's nice to be back blogging again!  I've missed it. So what have I been up to lately?  Hoo, boy, a lot!  These Christmas season has been especially busy for me with frequent craft shows.  And just when I think I'm caught up and organized, I get a special order.  But I'm not complaining!  I love being busy doing something I enjoy.  One thing I've learned is that the most popular fragrances are always the ones that I just sold out of or didn't order this season at all!  It's all coming together, though. I thought I'd share a picture of a batch of soap I made just to try out a new mold.  I didn't want to wait until next winter!  I think they're just the most exquisite looking snowflakes, scented with Christmas Wreath, an everg...

I just thought I'd show off the wooden mold my mister built for me last weekend. It's my first wooden log mold (with a few more promised!) Up until now I've been using cardboard boxes of the right shape. I'm not complaining, since they have worked well--they're cheap (free!) and sturdy. I have made hundreds of bars with my current "set" but they are beginning to bow and look their age. I was so excited when he gave it to me that I dropped everything to make a batch. He was interested in seeing how it worked out for me, too. It was a complete success. It's the perfect size for a 1 oz. sampler of fragrance oil and so easy to line! I love it!! I decided to make a goat milk soap, scented with Sweetgrass. It smells like the country in the spring to me, sans the manure-y overtones, of course! This is the first of four batches I made this week, with another one planned for today. Happiness is a new mold!