SMF August Challenge -Rock and Gem Soap

[DeeAnna]

Woo hooo! I really admire all the entries for this month's challenge -- nice work!!!!!!!

 

[penelopejane]

Toxikon
the colours of your soap are really beautiful. Care to share what they are?

 

[toxikon]

Toxikon
the colours of your soap are really beautiful. Care to share what they are?

Thank you! As I mentioned earlier, I was really worried because it turned swamp green when I added the lye! So I'm very pleased they returned to the colour I intended.

I mixed a few different micas from my big collection of baggies. A few from WSP and Nurture. Lets see...

From Nurture: Lime Appeal, Tropical Teal
From WSP: Carribean Blue, Mermaid Blue

I can't give exact amounts unfortunately, I was just adding dashes here and there until I got a nice shade.

Then I separated the batch and added TD for the turquoise part and AC for the dark blue part.

 

[Kittish]

So now I've got rocks on the brain. Played with the soap dough I made, and wound up with this:

 

[penelopejane]

Thank you! As I mentioned earlier, I was really worried because it turned swamp green when I added the lye! So I'm very pleased they returned to the colour I intended.

I mixed a few different micas from my big collection of baggies. A few from WSP and Nurture. Lets see...

From Nurture: Lime Appeal, Tropical Teal
From WSP: Carribean Blue, Mermaid Blue

I can't give exact amounts unfortunately, I was just adding dashes here and there until I got a nice shade.

Then I separated the batch and added TD for the turquoise part and AC for the dark blue part.

So many people do the dash here and dash there - I think it is innate artistic talent. Beautiful result. But will you be able to reproduce it again?

 

[toxikon]

So many people do the dash here and dash there - I think it is innate artistic talent. Beautiful result. But will you be able to reproduce it again?

I'm not too worried about re-producing it! I've never made two batches that look the same, hah. I'm definitely an experimenter.

 

[earlene]

I think we were supposed to start voting yesterday. I haven't received a link for Survey Monkey yet. Has it gone out?

 

[artemis]

I think we were supposed to start voting yesterday. I haven't received a link for Survey Monkey yet. Has it gone out?

I think we started submissions a little late. Maybe we're getting a little extra time to enter

 

[Kittish]

I think we started submissions a little late. Maybe we're getting a little extra time to enter

I don't mind. It's already kind of to the point where, honestly, my voting is likely to be by the close my eyes and poke the screen method. All the entries are terrific.

 

[galaxyMLP]

Everyone, I'm so sorry about this. I thought I had the survey finally ready and I started sending the emails out and it didn't even save! :headbanging: That's never happened to me. I'll get a chance to fix it in about four hours, but I don't have time right now. I'm really so sorry about this. I'll have it ready within 4 hours or so.

Thanks again for all of your beautiful entries and your understanding with my timing and technical issues.

 

[SunRiseArts]

no worries galaxy!

 

[galaxyMLP]

The survey has been correctly fixed. The same link/password that I emailed before will now work correctly. I'll finish sending everyone the link and password now. I'll edit this post when I finish so if you don't receive a pm by the time I edit this, please pm me about it.

Edit 4:49 pm CST: All pms have been sent. Please check your boxes.

Voting will close tomorrow at 9 pm CST (28 hours from now). I will announce the winners within that hour.

Thank you again for all of your patience.

 

[Kittish]

The survey has been correctly fixed. The same link/password that I emailed before will now work correctly. I'll finish sending everyone the link and password now. I'll edit this post when I finish so if you don't receive a pm by the time I edit this, please pm me about it.

Edit 4:49 pm CST: All pms have been sent. Please check your boxes.

Voting will close tomorrow at 9 pm CST (28 hours from now). I will announce the winners within that hour.

Thank you again for all of your patience.

No worries at all, galaxy. Life happens.

 

[PrairieLights]

My youngest is 17, and my oldest will be 31 in November! :shock:

When I had my "baby", (I still call him that). My dad made fun of me and called me grandma :evil:

Me too! - ages - (not to hijack the thread)

P.S. - Where can I see the gorgeous soaps y'all made?

 

[Kittish]

PrairieLights, you can see them in the ~ August 2017 Challenge Photo Entry Thread~. So many awesome entries for this month.

 

[MySoapyHeart]

Voted. Not easy.

 

[galaxyMLP]

As of right now, we're missing one vote and have a two way tie. If you didn't vote, please do so now!

 

[mx5inpenn]

As of right now, we're missing one vote and have a two way tie. If you didn't vote, please do so now!

Sorry for the hold up! Not all the pictures were showing for me and I didn't have time to go through the thread last night.

 

[galaxyMLP]

It's totally ok! I just wasn't sure if someone missed it! I wanted to make sure everyone had the opportunity.

 

[galaxyMLP]

Ok, everyone has voted!!

The winners for this month are still a tie so I'm going to go with it!

Tied for first place:

Earlene with the rhodochrosite soap!

Penelopejane with the river rock soap!

And in a very, very close third place:
Kittish with the Blue Lace Agate!

Congratulations! You all did an incredible job with this challenge! Thank you again for participating in the soap making forum August challenge!