Sometimes I wonder if I am determined or simply stubborn when it comes to certain projects. I do value time, so I usually give up when I feel I am wasting it and nothing seems to be working out. After all, I did abandon a Christmas tree pull screen idea after three or four failed… Continue reading My seventh attempt at a Snowflake Soap
This could be the most impractical soap I have done, but I had to do it. After doing this gingerbread house soap and this other one, I finally had to tackle this idea at last. I currently have one of these bars on the sink counter as an aromatic Christmas decoration. My husband has told… Continue reading Gingerbread House Soap
The place was a palace in England. The year? anywhere between 1543 and 1603. The request? "You shall make biscuits that look like my guests, so that they shall eat their own likeness at the party". At least this is what I imagine Queen Elizabeth I told her head chef. I can also picture the… Continue reading Gingerbread man soap
If you are thinking that orange is not a traditional Christmas color, you would be absolutely right! These soaps were supposed to be penguin theme soaps (and the orange was for their beak and feet). However, things did not go as planned and I ended up making a snowfake soap and some snowmen soap instead.… Continue reading Snowflake and Snowmen Soap
I am really happy about how this soap turned out! Especially after a failed attempt at this idea. When I participated in the ghost swirl challenge last month, I decided to make a second soap for the bonus category (in it, colorants could be used). Because I thought I could try this pine tree swirl… Continue reading Pine Tree TP Divider Swirl Soap
Sugar plum Fairy and nutcracker soap I remember seeing the Nutcracker Ballet at El Salvadorās national theater for the first time. Though a āTheaterā, different kind of performances were done there. It was a bit strange. Right outside the theater were street vendors, heavy foot and car traffic, noise and movements, as it was in… Continue reading The Nutcracker Soaps
This is my second attempt at a snow globe soap. My first ones were made primarily with clear melt and pour and a cold process snowman. These ones are entirely cold process. However, I did experiment adding clear melt and pour to a couple of them. I really like how they came out, despite the… Continue reading Snow Globe Soap
This was my soap for the Winter Collaboration called Wonderland. The requisites were to use white, glitter and milk! I decided to use coconut milk and add it at trace. Usually I add milk (if I am using it) to the water phase, in frozen form to avoid the lye burning the sugars of the… Continue reading Christmas Scene soap
There are so many ways of making pine trees as there are probably varieties of them. I made most of these by hand, but I will include a list below with tools you could use. My first attempt at a pine tree was for a Christmas Village soap, and it was a plain cone shape… Continue reading Shaping Pine Trees
If you like chocolate, you will love this soap. It smells like pure chocolate. It was meant to smell like peppermint/chocolate (a scent I like, though I personally do not like the taste of chocolate mints that much). However, the peppermint candy fragrance has lightened up a lot and I cannot detect it much anymore.… Continue reading Hot Cocoa Mint Soap
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