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GreenScene

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I tried it today and thought I'd post a couple of pics. The first one is how my tops usually look. I usually use a skewer or popsicle stick, but I don't wait as long to do the texturing as it seems Lyn does. I think the thinner consistency of the soap is what results in the thinner/pointier peaks.



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This is the one I tried with Lyn's technique. I waited a good while longer than I normally would, until the soap was much thicker. I can't wait to ummold and cut it tomorrow to see the comparison. I'll post cut pics in the morning. Thanks again, Lyn!



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Here they are! Air bubbles irritate me to no end, and the purple swirl didn't show up quite as much as I'd hoped, but I'm pleased, nonetheless. I wanted a soap I could call, "House of the Rising Sun."



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the blue one is gorgeous! is it woad, or maybe alkanet, and annatto? i've been playing with natural colorants, and yours resemble what i got, though your variegated blue is much prettier and my gold is brighter. lovely job with the tops too!!!!
 
Wow! Very nice job. I love the semicircle embed. I've just learned to embrace the air bubbles. It's a trade-off...don't want to mix with a whisk forever...use SB and get bubbles. No matter how much I tap the air out of the SB bell or stir after SBing, I still get those darn bubbles.
 
paillo said:
the blue one is gorgeous! is it woad, or maybe alkanet, and annatto? i've been playing with natural colorants, and yours resemble what i got, though your variegated blue is much prettier and my gold is brighter. lovely job with the tops too!!!!

Actually, I am completely out of most of my natural colorants at the moment, except for yellows, oranges, and browns. I used BB's ultramarine blue for the blue and a combination of the ultramarine blue and ultramarine violet for the purple.
 
I really like em! Very attention getting without being overdone. Is the "House of the Rising Sun" related to "Land of the Rising Sun"? A Japanese tie in?
 
ToniD said:
I really like em! Very attention getting without being overdone. Is the "House of the Rising Sun" related to "Land of the Rising Sun"? A Japanese tie in?

No, it's a folk song that's best known for the cover The Animals did of it in the '60's. Great, great song. You probably know it. It goes "There is a house in New Orleans/They call the Rising Sun/And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy/And God I know I'm one." Awesome song, and one I've always loved, being born and raised in south Louisiana, not from from New Orleans. :) Next up: trying to figure out scents and designs for my other New Orleans music inspirations - Lady Marmalade, Iko Iko, Moon Over Bourbon Street, and about twenty others!
 
GreenScene -

Your soap is awesome and I love the song "House of the Rising Sun".

You do realize what type of house the song is referring to, right? :wink:
 
Hazel said:
GreenScene -

Your soap is awesome and I love the song "House of the Rising Sun".

You do realize what type of house the song is referring to, right? :wink:

LOL Honey, this close to New Orleans? EVERYBODY knows what type of house they're referring to. ;-)
 
Okay :D

I just wanted to make sure since I've met people who've raved about the song but didn't have any idea what it was about. I have to confess when I first heard the song many, many years ago, I was too young to understand it.

Trivia: I'm old enough to remember seeing The Animals perform it on TV which means the FCC didn't realize what it was about, either. :lol:
 
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