When the cat's away, the mice make soap. DH gone all weekend. I got to play!
My weekend adventure.
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Wow - they are all gorgeous. I'm in MN too and I have a couple of guesses why your DH was gone for the weekend. Mine was gone a week ago for a few days. But the soap gremlins moved in and I didn't get anything close to your beauties!
Jewels
Your soaps are beautiful! Love the colors and designs. Especially like the rawhide in the soap. Rustic looking. How did you get the rawhide in there, by drilling? Thinking you have some type of woodsy scent in there.
Your soaps are beautiful! Love the colors and designs. Especially like the rawhide in the soap. Rustic looking. How did you get the rawhide in there, by drilling? Thinking you have some type of woodsy scent in there.
Thank you! Ha! I just got over the soap gremlins! Not happy for you,though, that they moved to your house! Sorry! I'm curious as to your guesses on where my DH was!
May I be so bold as to ask where you are in MN. We are in Taylors Falls.
Thank you! The soap on a rope was actually a plop and pray fail until I visited my sons house that same afternoon. They have an outdoor cedar shower that he had just pressure washed and the colors of the wood were the exact same as my failed soap. I came home and drilled through it, put in the leather, and stamped it with "Helvetia" (their home is an old hotel built in the late 1800's called the Helvetia Inn). They were over the moon, and I pretended I did it on purpose. Personally, I think it looks like bacon. I need to use a smaller drill bit, I think, because the soap cracked a little even though it was only 24 hrs old when I drilled it. Or maybe a softer soap recipe. This was a lard soap, and you are right...I used Nurtures Winter Wonderland to scent it. It smells like pine trees. The other soap of the same color was my second batch that I tried with those colors....inspired by Lake Superior north shore agates.
Saponificarian
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Your soaps are beautiful Jewel. Looking forward to when I will be able to make beautiful swirls like these ones.
Well, my guesses would be either turkey hunting (what mine was doing), or something to do with the impending fishing opener - getting the dock in at the cabin if you have one or getting a boat ready to go.
I live in Ramsey (Anoka county). Taylors Falls is beautiful - lucky you!
neonstudy
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Beautiful soaps!
Soapprentice
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Wow!! Do you have a YouTube channel btw? 
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Beautiful swirl effects!
Good guess, but he's not a hunter or a fisherman. He was actually in Phoenix for an Indy car race. I know exactly where you are....we lived in Anoka county for 16 years before we moved out here. Our main business is still in Blaine.
Wow!! Do you have a YouTube channel btw?
Oh, my goodness, this almost made my coffee come out my nose! No, I don't, I'm sorry. I wouldn't even know how to begin! But I'm flattered that you even asked. I think if I did, it might end up under the category of "comedies". And it would also be filled with bleeps!:silent:
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The first & second soaps are very pretty. Looks like zen. Is it pour in a loaf mold?
And the leather soap charm!!! What a cool ornament!
And the leather soap charm!!! What a cool ornament!
The first & second soaps are very pretty. Looks like zen. Is it pour in a loaf mold?
And the leather soap charm!!! What a cool ornament!
Yes, they were both in a 4lb loaf mold. The first one is with 3 dividers and a circling Taiwan Swirl, and the second is the same, but with only 2 dividers. Thanks for the compliments!
