Cold process soap making
I made this soap embed just to make sure that the mold I had made worked well, with no leaks, before shipping it out. Most blog posts "require" some little story and a bunch of pictures before giving you the actual recipe. So here is the only cowboy boot related story I could remember: When… Continue reading Testing a Cowboy Boot mold
Back in 2020 I shared a divider pine tree soap video that became one of the most watched videos in my channel during Christmas time. (The blog version is linked here.) This soap is a version of that technique, but done in a cavity mold instead. Also, with a 3d printed divider instead of the… Continue reading Pine tree soaps
Growing up, the neighbors across our house had an almond tree, when we wanted to eat an almond (the actual fruit, not the seed), we would either pick it up from the ground after making sure it didn’t have bat bite marks (another neighbor had a capulin tree/Mexican cherry that bats particularly liked) or throw… Continue reading Soap inspired by Van Gogh’s Almond blossoms
For the first two years of my soap making journey (2017-2018) I did not get any DOS (dreaded orange spots). I had read about them, and I had seen other people’s experiences with it, and I thought myself special that I didn’t have any. Until one day, I started to notice that a soap of mine… Continue reading My soap is yellowing
I participated in two vendors market for the Christmas season. The first one was a Dickens themed event, and the second a smaller church event. The picture above is from the smaller one. See that wall behind me? At some point it fell because my next door neighbor leaned on it with too much force, that was quite a… Continue reading How the Christmas Craft Shows went
I have only made soap with goat's milk a handful of times. I made this one at the request of someone who really likes Goat milk soap. She also wanted lots of colloidal oatmeal in the soap and honey. I knew I had to freeze the goat milk ahead of time, so I did. I… Continue reading Goat milk, oats and honey Soap
After Christmas, I enjoy shopping for the clearance sales. In such a shopping trip last year, I found this gift box silicone mold at Michael's that I thought would be good for Valentine soaps, or any other special occasion soaps. I thought it would be cool if I made it resemble a Tiffany gift box.… Continue reading Gift Box Soap
Before getting into the soap, I will tell you about my weird dream, and then hopefully I can segue it into the soap theme. I woke up from what at first seemed a weird dream this morning. In my dream I had been given charge of three future babies (they had not been born yet).… Continue reading Dreamy Place Soap: Monet water lilies
I have done my share of gemstone inspired soaps. Perhaps it is because of my background of making jewelry (I still make jewelry, but mostly as a hobby now). So, when I put together this collaboration, I wanted to challenge myself to do something slightly different. In this case it would be doing an opaque… Continue reading Malachite Inspired Soap
I have come to realize that the Glenda who volunteers herself to do something in the future, or the one who signs up to be a vendor at a craft show, is a different person from the Glenda who has to actually do those things. The Glenda who has to fulfill the obligations really resents… Continue reading My craft show experience as a vendor
