Arts and Crafts

I’ve been working hard lately to build up my soap inventory and I must say I’m kinda diggin’ how some of them are turning out. I’ve come a long way from how my first soaps looked and hopefully I’ll continue to get better and even more creative.

So like I said I’ve been making some soap lately and I was able to get done another batch of Sassy Come Home (milk, honey, and oatmeal soap), Barefoot in the Grass, Lazy Lavender (which looks the best that I’ve done so far with that soap) and oh my gosh… my most favorite and newest to the collection  – St. Nicholas Day. Yup you guessed it, it’s named after another Catholic Saint celebration! But seriously this soap is just plain awesome! I don’t know how to describe it, but it smells like Christmas trees and really good candles going. OK, not the best description, but when I took it out of the mold honestly I went back to where it was drying A LOT to smell it. I loved it so much that I ordered a couple more bottles of it the next day to make more soap with it before Christmas. The only thing that I’m not too crazy about it how I layered it in the mold. Not the worst, but I’m hoping to do better next time. I even made a couple of Hanging with Ed soap balls scented for Christmas 🙂

So after all that soap making, I wanted to make a sympathy card to mail out this week. So here is a nice simple design. I think I need to expand my color pallet from only blue bottles though.