A Day at the Beach (or how I take my soap on a field trip)

It's officially summer! Fortunately it doesn't get too hot here, but even more fortunate is that I've been in the office by myself so even if I am a little sweaty after my walks at lunch, there's no one there to smell me. :D

Last week, a dear friend came for a visit and gave me a present, a very a propos for this time of year: sand dollar mould! I know Cee made some sand dollar soaps a while back (I wasn't copying, honest!) and I hope mine turned out half as nice as hers.

I used some left over light blue clear soap with glitter for the star, and for the rest of it, I used a white based soap and put in a bit of brown to colour it lightly. For the scent, I had been making some soap with litsea EO and so rather than washing out the bowl I'd been using, I just melted the white base in the same bowl and added some Energy FO as well. I think it smells divine!

As always, I took photos of the finished soap in the photo box, but for a change of pace, and because I am close enough right now to the beach, I thought it'd be a nice change of pace to do some outdoor shots.

Hope you're enjoying your summer!

I'm fine

Someone once told me what fine stands for (and if you're of a more delicate constitution, please skip the rest of this paragraph and move onto the next paragraph, or watch this video in the meanwhile

F.I.N.E stands for f***ed up, insecure, neurotic and exhausted. The person who told me this was a family doctor, so the next time you go see your doctor, remember, he or she does have a sense of humour.

I've mostly been the E in fine which is why I didn't post last week. However, as I was doing some filing in the office and disliking every minute of it, I thought about how much I enjoyed soaping but haven't had the energy to do it. So I decided to start up again. I made this dragonfly soap previously but the dragonfly didn't show up as much as I'd like.

This is the first one I made. The green dragonfly doesn't show up as well against the background of green. I guess in real life, the dragonfly would want to blend in somewhat, so it's not such easy pickings for the birds. For me though, I want to make the dragonfly the star of the soap, so I tried this.

Blue lab colour dragonfly in MP clear with low sweat white with green oxide and a touch of energy FO

I'll probably try again with a more purply dragonfly just to make it stand out more, and with some glitter to make the dragonfly more iridescent.