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Rosey

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So i've been looking at people's soaps and man some people are so talented. I notice that some people put real things on the top like sesame seeds, lavender etc.

Example : (so pretty):

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?re ... =tag_title


Does that not cause problems when you first try to use it or does it just wash away?
 
Depending on how it's done it can make a bar a scrubby or if it's just on the top and not throughout then it will wash off very quickly.

Cheers
Lindy
 
Thanks Lindy, that's what I was thinking but I wanted to make sure.

I've been looking at the photo gallery and on etsy and you guys are so talented!
 
Thank you - believe me when I say you will be too.. and there are some amazing soapers on here that are true inspirations.... :D
 
well for the first time, i'll just be happy for it to saponify and actually become a soap :lol:

I'm excited and so happy to have found this forum.
 
Rosey, is your avatar your 7 year old? She is very beautiful.
 
Yup that's my girl! She turns 8 in March. And the dog is my other girl Phoebe. She's a pitbull and 50 pounds of loving licking machine :D
 
Rosey that is just about the sweetest and most endearing picture I've ever seen and your daughter is gorgeous....
 
Thanks :)

Ok but let just tell you that you asked for the list ;)

- Teegan, dog, m, 22months, half pitbull, half ? (my baby. Had him since he was 7 weeks old, taken away from momma too young and the lady didn't want him anymore. We were his 3rd home at 7weeks!! Poor baby.)
- Phoebe, dog, f, 13months, pitbull (big puppy still at this point in time but a sweetheart)

- Isis, cat, f, 9yo, had her for 2.5. (found her on my doorstep!) "Miss Cranky Pants". Has asthma but not on meds at this time (yay!)
- Gabriel, cat, m, 7yo, had him for 3. Found running around with a feral colony.
- Sephiroth aka "Sephie",cat, m, 3.5, had him since he was 8 weeks old. Found outside by kids, was living in the storm drain. (he was our very first animal)
- Orion aka "little hunter",cat, m, 2.5 yo. Found on the streets with mom and sibs.
- Rachel,cat, f, 2?, rescued from the pound by a cop who couldn't/wouldn't seperate her dogs and cats and the dogs went ape. Sposed to be a temp situation (right, i knew from the start she was here to stay..don't tell hubby!)

Birds:
-Wesley and Buttercup (2 boys but we thought buttercup was a male until he molted). Gray cockatiels. Ages unknown except buttercup must be around 4 since molting is around 1.
-Coconut, f, lutino cockatiel, almost 3. I got her from a breeder/acquaintance (i know bad bad.) She's also my baby.
- Dixie, 6, gray cockatiel, m. Got him from a college student moving and unable to care for him. He's my sweetie but has been plucking but it's getting better.
- SoAnna, 2?, m, gray cockatiel...also thought it was a female until the molt.
- Cochice, 3?, m, pied (and something else) cockatiel. (rescued with SoAnna)
- Topaz: almost 2, dutch blue lovebird. Rescued when he was 10 weeks I think it was. Still hates hands from being manhandled and grabbed all the time by people.

- Princess, russian tortoise, 2-3ish? Kiddo's tortoise and she's aware she'll have her probably for the rest of her life.
- Spring "cottontail", rabbit, white blanc de hotot. 3-4ish? Got the last 2 at the petstore (shame shame I know but at the time the rabbit rescues were way too far away for me to drive.)

2 fish tanks currently empty because we lost everything when we lost power for 3 days during an ice storm in 2007 :(

I think I got it all so there you have it, my zoo and yes my middle name is "pooper scooper".

A few pics. I love animals :)

Here is Sephie, Rachel, and Orion from top to bottom.

cats.jpg


Isis gained a lot of weight on the steroids. This is when we first got her. She's lost some but has a little ways to go yet. (she's the grey one)

gabrielisis3.jpg


It's very hard to get them all to be in the same area and sit still but here we go

birds4.jpg


This is Topaz:

topaz052207.jpg


spring.jpg


Bad cell phone pic and Phoebe has a leash cause the girl wasn't quite potty trained and would sneak off on me.

PIC_0085.jpg



I have a pic of the tortoise somewhere but i can't find it.

This was Phoebs when we adopted her :(

HPIM0793.jpg


Here they are just several weeks ago. Teegan has a birth defect and has a nub instead of a tail.

HPIM1013.jpg



So that was a lot of pictures and I hope that was ok and now I feel totally exposed. I love animals and could talk about them all day long :) (heck that's why i'm a zoology major)

Are you sorry you asked?? :lol:
 
I will! Don't mind the carpet (yikes!) I have a carpet shampooer now!
 
Gorgeous pets :) We used to have a slew of critters ( skunks, prairie dogs, fox, chinchillas, big horn sheep, you name it we had it ) as well but unfortunately our living situation changed and we had to rehome everyone. All we keep now are fish :(

My son starts college in the fall and he's majoring in zoology as well :)

Rosey said:
Thanks :)

Ok but let just tell you that you asked for the list ;)

- Teegan, dog, m, 22months, half pitbull, half ? (my baby. Had him since he was 7 weeks old, taken away from momma too young and the lady didn't want him anymore. We were his 3rd home at 7weeks!! Poor baby.)
- Phoebe, dog, f, 13months, pitbull (big puppy still at this point in time but a sweetheart)

- Isis, cat, f, 9yo, had her for 2.5. (found her on my doorstep!) "Miss Cranky Pants". Has asthma but not on meds at this time (yay!)
- Gabriel, cat, m, 7yo, had him for 3. Found running around with a feral colony.
- Sephiroth aka "Sephie",cat, m, 3.5, had him since he was 8 weeks old. Found outside by kids, was living in the storm drain. (he was our very first animal)
- Orion aka "little hunter",cat, m, 2.5 yo. Found on the streets with mom and sibs.
- Rachel,cat, f, 2?, rescued from the pound by a cop who couldn't/wouldn't seperate her dogs and cats and the dogs went ape. Sposed to be a temp situation (right, i knew from the start she was here to stay..don't tell hubby!)

Birds:
-Wesley and Buttercup (2 boys but we thought buttercup was a male until he molted). Gray cockatiels. Ages unknown except buttercup must be around 4 since molting is around 1.
-Coconut, f, lutino cockatiel, almost 3. I got her from a breeder/acquaintance (i know bad bad.) She's also my baby.
- Dixie, 6, gray cockatiel, m. Got him from a college student moving and unable to care for him. He's my sweetie but has been plucking but it's getting better.
- SoAnna, 2?, m, gray cockatiel...also thought it was a female until the molt.
- Cochice, 3?, m, pied (and something else) cockatiel. (rescued with SoAnna)
- Topaz: almost 2, dutch blue lovebird. Rescued when he was 10 weeks I think it was. Still hates hands from being manhandled and grabbed all the time by people.

- Princess, russian tortoise, 2-3ish? Kiddo's tortoise and she's aware she'll have her probably for the rest of her life.
- Spring "cottontail", rabbit, white blanc de hotot. 3-4ish? Got the last 2 at the petstore (shame shame I know but at the time the rabbit rescues were way too far away for me to drive.)

2 fish tanks currently empty because we lost everything when we lost power for 3 days during an ice storm in 2007 :(

I think I got it all so there you have it, my zoo and yes my middle name is "pooper scooper".

A few pics. I love animals :)

Here is Sephie, Rachel, and Orion from top to bottom.

cats.jpg


Isis gained a lot of weight on the steroids. This is when we first got her. She's lost some but has a little ways to go yet. (she's the grey one)

gabrielisis3.jpg


It's very hard to get them all to be in the same area and sit still but here we go

birds4.jpg


This is Topaz:

topaz052207.jpg


spring.jpg


Bad cell phone pic and Phoebe has a leash cause the girl wasn't quite potty trained and would sneak off on me.

PIC_0085.jpg



I have a pic of the tortoise somewhere but i can't find it.

This was Phoebs when we adopted her :(

HPIM0793.jpg


Here they are just several weeks ago. Teegan has a birth defect and has a nub instead of a tail.

HPIM1013.jpg



So that was a lot of pictures and I hope that was ok and now I feel totally exposed. I love animals and could talk about them all day long :) (heck that's why i'm a zoology major)

Are you sorry you asked?? :lol:
 
Wonderful family!!! I'm down to 3 dogs (a 14 YO cocker, 4 YO lhasa poodle x and a 3 YO Toy Poodle, the cocker and poodle were rescues), 1 12 yo cat, a 23 yo cockatiel & misc fish. I did have 5 dogs but in the past 18 months I've had 2 pass....not going to increase the pack for a while because I'm going to be out of town a couple or three weeks a month....

Thanks for sharing with us....
 
RE: Decorations on Soap

Although soap looks great with all kinds of "stuff" on it, I always am consious of how much of that stuff I want going down my drain.

I tend to use a very light hand, or put it only on the top where it can be scraped off easily.

I'm also not partial to stuff like lavender that looks like mouse turds in my soap. :lol:
 
I totally want to do a pet soap one day. The ones I buy for the dogs just don't cut it and have a funky smell along with the "nice" smell and I really don't want to pay for them to get washed at the groomers every time.

I do have a big crew and a full house and I'm not taking in anymore (well i said that before Rachel and Phoebe and Isis but what are you sposed to do when you open the door and there's a cat that won't leave! lol )

Does your son know what he wants to do with the zoology. I want to do conservation but most people are zookeepers too as their "real" job. I'm not sure yet but as cliche as it is, I'm gravitating towards tigers. I'm just outraged by the ignorance people have about "white" tigers and tigers are just so beautiful.
 
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