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Hi !
Wow… its super windy here. Has been quite intense for a day or so now.
The market at Elliot went pretty well considering the dreadful weather. Enough people got out and spent money to make it worthwhile. (Around $230 – more profitable than staying in bed!)

(Partly set up – everyone was inside that day!)

The soap dish sets looked lovely but sadly didn’t sell anything this time around.
I am sure eventually they will. (Same thing with the facewashers and scrubbies)

Been spending time on youtube and getting so many cool ideas…

Using the bottom of a soft drink bottle to disperse the colours..

This is Oh So Satisfying to do!

Once all poured, I ran a skewer through the ‘petals’ and ended up with a very neat design

Still not 100% on the cutting – size and shape but…

(Bottom was rather cool)

Yesterday at the soap workshop I did a demo with this technique.
It certainly had the wow factor

The bottle bottom does get up and run away a bit – as it is full of air. And its also hard to pick up at the end of the process
I am going to drill holes in the feet so the air can escape and I can hopefully push it back down more easily… and attach something (screw or cord) so I can pick it up out of the mould when done.

I totally want to do more of these

Another geometric soap

Colour worked out nothing like what I was aiming at…

And this one I did as a vertical cut… the brown ‘branches’ were supposed to be slivers of gold.. ummm… seems when you mix the gold mica into the ‘batter’ it goes poo-brown
This ended up looking like tree branches with square leaves 😀

At the market a lady came up and said her cousin had left her with a stack of micas and fragrances that she wanted to get rid of… would I be interested in having a look??
Oh boy, would I indeed???

A lot of the containers and bottles were full – even the ones that weren’t still had decent amounts of stuff left in them
I was lucky enough to get all of this for $100! Actually I offered more but she was happy with $100!

Also some moulds and other useful bits and bobs.
So cool!
My supply collection is really pretty great now!

This soap was a bit of fun to create!
I ended up splitting the batch and doing it in two sections… the black bottom had to set a bit first before doing the top part. Since the mixture for the top needed to remain fluid, it was sensible to split the batch and not start mixing the coloured part until later in the process

Pleased that it actually worked!

Then there is a mishmash of soaps made with leftover mixtures

The snowflake moulds are really intricate!

I was worried half of the soap would stick in the bottom but they came out easily

And today I cut the latest two loaf soaps
The ‘shimmy’ I took to the class for students to have a go at cutting. Strange but the almost yellow part of the soap started out bright orange! Totally changed within 24 hours!
The other one is a slightly failed blue ombre… I was trying a different way but it wasn’t successful. Learning curve 🙂
Cat embed looks like a cat, so thats a win.

Have a great week ahead!
Cheers