Where have I been.......?

Hello out there in the land of the interweb. I took a hiatus from writing for a bit as well as selling

Snowy

soap, not that I ever stopped making it or working on awesome new ideas. Since last time I wrote I have moved back to my home town of Pittsburgh, PA, gone back to school and became a Certified Veterinary Technician and now work at a zoo (yes, it's as awesome as one would think!) Oh, we also bought a house and have an awesome dog named, Snowy. In all that time with all those things that I have been working on I somehow knew I would come back to soapmaking, one of my passions. I have many new ideas and have started making new batches of soap. I am hoping to open a small artist space here locally where I can sell my soaps and bath and body creations as well as other items that I have created, see I wanted to branch out. Deep down I am a "maker" I love to work with my hands and be creative and try new artistic techniques when I learn about them. Sometimes they completely crash and burn and sometimes they are pretty neat. I also think it might be kind of cool to share my craft with others through teaching or just group making sessions. Like I said, I have lots of new ideas. Sit tight and stay tuned to see what will be next for this little soapsmith!

Signing off
~your long lost Soapsmith

MP/CP Soap? What? You're crazy!

Yes I am.  And totally excited about it.  I heard this could be done, then read an article in saponifier magazine AND later saw a picture on a soap forum i visit regurarly.

Here was my process:
I pre-made and scented mp soap.  I used a spherical mold and split each sphere into two scents 1/2 vanilla bean and 1/2 hot cocoa (omg! it's so spot on!) then i took those little balls, weighed them and subtracted that weight from the size of my mold so it would not spill over.  I devised a very basic soap recipe, unscented, since my mp spheres were scented with pure deliciousness and i colored it using a beautiful burgundy oxide which worked really well with the colors of the mp soaps.

I poured the cp into my mold about 1/3 full, stopped, then placed some of the spheres into the  mold, then i poured more cp.  I actually poured the rest of it in because i wanted to save some spheres for the top to have them peaking out.  I gently placed them on top and did some cute swirls around them.  The burgundy worked great with the cocoa and of white color that the mp spheres are.

I CANNOT WAIT to unmold and cut them to see how they turn out to be!

More to come.

tata

your soapsmith

The creation, just poured......

The final product!