Monday, October 18, 2010

Naughty or Nice? How About Nicety!

I’m not waiting til the last minute like I always do to start crafting my holiday offerings. I will have 3 official holiday soaps this year. I usually only do one, but these soaps will carry you into the Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa season and beyond! For this one, I deviated from the traditional holiday scents like sugar cookie or frankincense and myrrh, or basically anything with vanilla in it and decided to go darker.

First up is Nicety. It’s part naughty and part nice. There was also a song back in the day called Nicety. Whatever happened to Michel’le? Oh well, I digress (when don’t I digress…) I wanted Nicety to be “sooty” not entirely black, but I had a heavy hand with the black oxide. I should have only used a pinch instead of 3! You can barely see the poppy seeds in the body of the soap, so I compensated by sprinkling little sooty balls on top. The soap is scented in a blend of sweet orange and patchouli (love this combo-the ultimate naughty meets nice) with a little hint of fir needle to give it an unexpected “Hmmmm” factor. No, this soap doesn’t smell like a fir tree. It smells like a nice romp in the woods with someone you don’t mind getting naughty with..

6 comments:

Duni said...

I love the look of this soap. And orange and patchouli are a great combo! I can almost smell it!

Holly said...

The scent sounds amazing! The soap is so snazzy looking too. :)

Dori said...

I'll bet this soap smells great!

And I do remember Michel'le...what ever DID happen to her??? Well I'm off to Google now to find out ;-)

Have a great week!

Anne-Marie said...

Great job at getting a jump on the Christmas season! It's so easy to let it sneak up on you. It's also nice to see some twists on holiday creations- I'm digging the sooty black color with the lighter top.

Amy Warden said...

Nicety - that's new to me! Way to change things up from the "normal" Christmas-type scents!

Sherrilenett said...

LOL, this is so cute. Your so clever with words I love it. Wish I could smell it! =]]