I made soap again! Yay!

I finally made something again. After some serious failure I sort of gave up on all things crafty for a while but I got out my soap stuff and whipped up this soap. It’s got a super awesome light lavender vanilla scent that I absolutely love.  It’s of course natural, using vegetable glycerin as the soap base. I love it.

Massage bar soaps are so awesome. They are relaxing to rub straight onto your skin and the scent only helps with that relaxation. These soaps also contain aloe vera to sooth your skin and vitamin E.

These three are for sale, not in my etsy as usual, but I thought I would try something new so you can get them at big cartel which is a lot like etsy except it’s much more self run. So go ahead and give it a try, and remember if you place an order and tell me you came from my blog I’ll send you a surprise! Click here to go straight to the item page and place your order!

a forgotten soap

I forgot to blog about this soap, but it was also one that was given away at christmas and I was particularly proud of it, so I thought I would write about it now.

So first we start off with a blue skateboard which is carved out of soap. By hand. yeah. (Please ignore my bitten fingernails, I’m trying to stop, really!)

Then it was embeded into soap that was clear on the top and then some clear orange on the bottom.

Here’s a side view so you can see how it is split up. I think it’s pretty cool.

Catch Up Post!

So I have a LOT LOT LOT to catch up on in Posting.

Okay, to make it easier I’m just going to do a bit of a bullet list.

• Our 360 died.
  - The dvd drive started making loud noises and then it stopped reading disks, right in the middle of a matchmaking sesh on Halo 3!
  -It’s now sitting in TX hopefully soon to be fixed or something like that…
• ACAD ’08 is starting off pretty well, despite the fact that I haven’t felt very well.
• We took the death of the 360 as an opportunity to send our Halo 3 game disk in because of the obscene scratching defectiveness and crap and received a new disk back in like a week, along with a one month card, YAY!
• Christmas was pretty cool. I got to spend a lot of time with my family and got many cool gifts, including a HUGE gift card to Gamestop which we used to purchase a PS2 and a bunch of awesome games, including Kingdom Hearts, Wild Arms 3, and In The Groove.

Now, some pictures.

I got these awesome wrist warmers that look homemade but are surprisingly mass produced.
I’ve officially decided to learn to knit so that I can someday make these for myself. I started learning the other night and am doing at least semi-decent. If anyone has any tips go ahead and leave a comment.

Or: Even Better, If you know how to knit, and would like to knit some loverly arm or wrist warmerage in a trade, I’d love to do that. Get in contact with me via a comment and leave your email or a messenger name and I will talk to you and see it there is anything we could work out.

Now soaps!

I started making soap and have found I’m actually pretty good at it!

First I made these, which I promptly turned into a set of these:

which actually look much better in real life. They are a light Pepperment scent and they are wonderful.

Then there came these, which were actually a present for Andrew’s (The Boy Creature) Brother Josiah. They are a Crisp Cucumber-Melon scent, and the color is actually really melony (Think Honeydew) and not the pinkish that it looks.

Now after successfully handling that, I decided to jump in full force and created:

They are varying scents and are all very wonderful. They were all gifted to the wonderful people in my life!

I think that’s a decent update for now. I’ll write more later!

Christmas Tree!

We put up our (first) christmas tree recently. I figured I would post a few teaser shots until I took some great pictures. It’s really hard to take pictures of a christmas tree with all the sparkles!

It’s not finished yet, but I made the tree skirt and some of the ornaments so that’s pretty cool.