Holy Canoli!

So I was cruisin' my regular blogs and on one of my favorite blogs I could not resist checking out soap porn.  I'm an addict, I admit.  I love soap, I love my soap, I love making soap, I love looking at other people's soap, I love using other people's soap, I love sniffing other handmade soap, I love everything about handmade soap.  Now that that's out of the way, one of the pictures in the soap porn had me dumbfounded.  Soap carvings.  If I thought I had problems with some people not wanting to use my soap because it's "too pretty to use", I can only imagine that these peeps will never get anyone to use their soap.  Here's why:

I'm sure you'll want to check out the rest here.

Also, in my "morning" computer routine, I clicked on etsy and low and behold there's my Healing Waters Spa Bar in a treasury right there on the front page!  Woo Hoo!  I took a web archive of it, but it doesn't save in jpeg format, so I don't think it'll post, but I'm about to try.

Also, I'm working on a couple of projects and have been using a Ginger Lime fragrance and am absolutely in love with it.  I made another Chocolate Raspberry Soap Torte, but I did the regular cold process for the bottom and whipped soap for the top.  Normally I think this would've worked out quite fine, however I made the layers on different days and now the top doesn't stick to the bottom.  It's beautiful but very delicate.  Pictures coming soon....

First Attempt at Whipped Soap.

Aside from a slightly thinner than I'd hoped for "batter" and slight discoloration from the fragrance, I think it was great success, I liiiiike!

I used Tahitian Vanilla, which smells yummmm and decorated with some cranberry seeds.  I've gained much inspiration from this experience.  I recently screwed up my first batch in a long time and must re-batch.  Since it was Black Raspberry, I've got an idea how to turn the first third of the batch (it was a biggie) into cupcakes.  I'm taking pictures along the way, so look for that soon.  Now...  behold the first whipped cupcakes that were not a complete disaster, but not as pretty as I'd have liked...