This is what I have been up to yesterday!  The unmolding happens this afternoon!  Can't wait to see the results!

I just had to try the newest technique in soapmaking...."The Thin Middle Line"!  This is a memorable soap for me due to my son!  He walked into my soap room & starting asking about soapmaking & if I could make a soap with him.  Well my sweet son is only 11 & there is the safety issue with the lye.  So I asked if he would settle for making a fragrance for me.  He thought for a minute, scratched the top of his head & finally agreed! *lol*  Took him a minute to think if that was going to satisfy him!  So I let him go through all my fragrance oils to see what I had.  He choose a bottle of Jasmine & a bottle of white tea...neither I have used just yet.  He held them up & asked how they would smell together.  See, he has this tea fetish that has been going on for several months now....jasmine tea!  He fixes himself a cup every morning now!  I told him I didn't know but I knew a way we could find out.  He ran upstairs and got me some q-tips while I found a bottle.  I let him dip each cotton tip into each bottle & we put them in the bottle.  About an hour later, he comes downstairs & asked if we could now smell inside the bottle.  I opened the lid & the smell was wonderful!  I just beamed at him..."Good choice baby"!  And here is the result of my little boy's scent that he made himself!  Jasmine White Tea!  And I can't tell you how wonderful it truly smells!  I will make him into a soapmaker yet!  Good job Ashton!  Mama loves you ever so much!!

Sandalwood Dreams!

I can't believe how well this sandalwood soap turned out which one of the reasons I love soapmaking!  You never know what you are going to end up with at the end!  I started this one and it turned out all wrong.  I was going for a tan bottom with a white top and I used a new slab mold I have received recently.  So I thought I would try it out!  I didn't like the results of it so I unmolded it & made curls out of it.  I set the curls on the shelf & stared at them for days trying to figure out what to do with them.  Finally I decided to just make a new batch with my log mold.  After pouring it in, the FO behaved so well I decided to insert the curls into the top & walla!  Here is my creation!  Now I am hooked on making curls & I will never see a batch of "not so pretty" soap the same way again! 

My Soaping Journey

I started this soaping journey of mine several years ago when I saw an article in a magazine about a soapmaker.  Of course the inquisitive creature that I am, I had to Google her and find out more about this seemingly amazing soap that the magazine was raving about.  They were not kidding!  I bought some of her soaps and I was blown away!  I could smell the goodies before I even opened the box!  And what a wonderful smell it was!  I still to this day still have one of them...I just couldn't use it..smelled too darn good!  Once again I got curious about how this process worked.  I then went on to make 10 batches of soap over the course of a week!  I fell in love!  I love the not knowing how its going to turn out in the end.  Unmolding each batch is like Christmas!  Over the years I tried many different recipes and come up with recipes of my own enjoying each second of it!  During this journey I have made some pretty incredible friends along the way that without taking this first step into the world of soap I would not have ever met.  I am so amazingly thankful for that magazine article that brought to light a whole new world to me!