Pretty Ugly Things Part I

I love to share my blunders as well as my triumphs. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...ugh...

This was Blackberry Apple

This was Cherry Meringue Bites

This was Blueberry Muffin with blueberry M&P imbeds. Had the soap not turned a murky, Potomac River-polluted brown, it would have been a cute soap

My first and last attempt at felting soap

  

The Original Dirty Soap

This was Cool Citrus Basil. Smelled really good, but turned out really bad...

Don't Even Ask...

Cuz I don't know what it is yet....This is what I get for trying to be cute! I need to stick to what I do best-just make the soap and stop trying to get ultra-creative! I'm a no-frills kinda gal, but I like to get a little frisky sometimes, but the results of this soap is definitely one of those WTF moments.



I won't even go into detail, but I'm selling this bad boy! Why is it the ugliest soaps smell the best? This one is vanilla with rose, jasmine, tonka bean, and bergamot. I put those white dots in there on purpose. This soap looks like it has chicken pox or it needs the H1N1 vaccine. Anyway, I'll give it a cheeky name and list it on one of my venues. Speaking of venues, I think I have too many. I can't keep up. Two of them are free til I sell something, but I haven't sold anything, so I'm not overly concerned.

Where is my lye??? I need to make some more soap. I'm having withdrawal pains...

SOAP SALE!!!!

Before I forget, today is the last day to enter my I Love Cupcakes Giveaway! I'll announce the winner sometime tomorrow. See the pic on the left for details.

I'm also having a sale in my Art Fire shop. I call it the Fugly Soap Pack. It's a pound or more of dirty, sexy, ugly soaps packed really prettily and ready to ship. They're only $5.00 while supplies last!

Mac and Cheese Anyone?

So I ended yesterday's post saying that I was going to try layering with my Banana Split soap. Well, this is what I ended up with instead. I really love this scent which I bought from DayStar Supplies. It's sweet and creamy and smells lightly of bananas. My goal was to layer this soap with yellow, plain, and red colored soap, but once I added the fragrance, it seized almost immediately. When I poured the soap into my three different containers, it was liquid, after I added the scent and stirred, it was thick like cake frosting. It still smelled like sweet, creamy bananas so I wasn't mad, I just had to work quickly. I did forget though, that red+yellow=orange, hence the mac and cheese appearance. The scent now even smells like mac and cheese (or is it my imagination?) It surely doesn't smell like banana split anymore. I'm going to let it cure and see what happens. If it regains its sweet banana smell, then I'll add it to my fugly soap collection and deep discount it. Hey, fuglies need love too.

On a more positive note, I got my pillar wax today from Candle Science, so I'm making flames! Check in with ya'll later.