Fresh & Clean

I've been wanting to make this next project for about 2 years now.

I finally decided that I was just going to jump in and JUST DO IT!

I can't believe that I didn't do it sooner.

It was so super easy to do and it makes the house

smell so fresh & clean.

Can you guess what I made?

 

Did you guess scented candles?

 

Try again.

 

Did you guess homemade bars of soap?

 

Winner, Winner, chicken dinner!

 

I made my own bars of soap!

 

 

These soaps are made using Goat's milk Glycerin Soap Base and essential oils. 

They are so rich and creamy feeling, smell wonderful and

they create a lot of lather.  These bars are a full 4 oz. each.

 

My favorite is the Savannah Rain.

 

It is made with Lily of the Valley, Lilac, Magnolia and Violet

essential oils.  It smell like freshly fallen rain.

 

 

I made a couple of bars with swirls of seafoam green colorant.

 

 

 

A couple of the Lavender bars I added some

Lavender buds to them.

 

 

Just melt your soap base in a microwave safe dish.

 

 

Add your favorite essential oils.

 

 

You can even add colorants, flowers, herbs, colored sugars.

The possibilities are endless.  Be creative!

 

Place into a mold.

 (Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the soap in the molds)

 

 

Let set for 1 hour and remove from the mold and you have

beautiful bars of soap that smell and feel so good.

 

 

Here are a few other soaps I made.

I didn't have time to make the labels for these.

 

 

We are set for soap for a while.

I wish you could smell how fresh & clean these soaps are.

This was such an easy project to do that I will continue to

make our own bars of soap. At least I know exactly what is going into each bar.

No more mystery ingredients!

 

I hope you enjoyed this post.

 

Until next time,

Veronica

 

 

 

 

 



Winter Blues

 I just realized that I haven't posted anything since Christmas Eve!

After the Christmas hustle & bustle I usually have to

unwind and relax for a little bit.

 

I haven't been in the creative mood lately.

My card making is behind along with a few other projects.

Winter tends to give me the blues.

All I want to do is hunker down under the covers and sleep away the winter.

Kind of like hibernating!

 

So I thought that I would share my Winter snowflake pillow

covers that I made during the Christmas rush.

 

These are made out of felt that I purchased at Joann Fabric.

 

I cut my snowflakes using my Silhouette cameo machine and

hand stitched each snowflake onto the pillow covers.

That was a LOT of hand stitching!  I must be insane!

No wonder I want to take a 3 month nap!

 

 

 

 

 

Here they are all lined up on the couch.

 

 

I wanted to make another pillow to go with these but all of the supplies that

I needed are on back order.  Oh well, there's always next year!

 

This is another fun little pillow cover I made for the winter season

out of some scrap fabric I had laying around.

I got this pattern out of my American Patchwork Quilting magazine.

As soon as I saw this pillow cover I knew that I was going to make it.

I cut out each piece by hand...

 

 

and again hand stitched each piece onto the pillow cover!

 

 

Isn't it just the cutest!

It's such a happy pillow that it kind of chases the winter blues away!

 

Looking at these pillows made me hungry for something warm to eat.

So for dinner I made a BIG pot of chili.

Add a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of cheddar cheese on top

and dig in!  YUM, YUM

 

 

That's all I have for now.

Stay warm and I'll see you next time.

Veronica