Teach Soap

Hi.
I'm making my first attempt to post a soap I just made. I'm coming up with a few designs to sell my soap at my kids carnival. They attend a French school so I think you will all see the connection with my design :+}
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Two comments -
1. I have to give credit to SoapyLove because Debbie taught a class at The Nova Studio in Pt. Richmond, Ca. near where I live that I took back in December. I got my first taste of learning how to use the loaf mold and transformed a recipe she provided for neapolitan soap into The French Flag

2. I realized (I maybe getting to critical of myself here) but since the loaf mold is a bit wider at the top (since I have to turn the soap after cutting it to make it look like the flag so the stripes are vertical) - I may reverse the order I pour the layers going forward so when I turn it the wider side is blue.

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I'm still trying to figure the forum features out. I meant to post this in 'flaunt your stuff' but I must not have been paying attention. Next time I'll get it in the right topic. I can't seem to obviously use the user control panel to delete the first post. Nor can I post the other photo in it's packaging as I'm having trouble with the resizing.

Here's the photo packaged on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asliceofde ... 478454284/

I'm still working on packaging but I think I'm on the right track for this event in May. There is so much to do and learn - but I'm totally having so much fun.

Thanks for looking.

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Looks good!
You can always contact Bramble Girl, Bramble Momma or Soapylove as they are mods in this section. They can add this thread in the "show off your stuff" thread.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

I tried to see if I could move this thread into Flaunt Your Stuff, but I don't think I have that ability. Maybe the higher authorities can!

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Debbie Chialtas

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Thanks Debbie for trying. I'll try uploading a different design in flaunt your stuff using your instructions. In answering you Q (from my flickr pictures - which I'm still playing with and may delete and reshoot) - I used rasberry, coconut and blueberry fragrance. Thanks for you feeback. I really appreciate it.

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reminds me of astropops from when I was a kid!

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~Jola

Jola-
Thanks for your comments. I'm such a Francophile that it will forever be a French flag to me (tee hee).
And of course my packaging for this marche (with a tag of the Eiffel Tower) creates no confusion between France and Astropops

I will say that Soaplove has the market cornered with her soapscicles and your memory of astropops.
Check out her design if you havn't already - http://www.soapylove.com/shoplistings/bathblaster.html.

Thanks

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Ha! You guys are funny. You know what I really miss (sorry to go off topic here) are the Astropop Lollipops, which are sadly not produced anymore:



These are the Bomb Pops that inspired my "Bath Blaster"


I love those!

Now back to French Flag discussions...

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Debbie Chialtas

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Hi all. Just wanted to show you how I was going to 'recover' the abundance of French Flags I made for the kids faire. I was surprised that all my other soap designs were winners but the Flag didn't resonate like I thought. I found out afterwards that their flag is not treated in their country in the same manner as we have here with lots of 'flag waving' (etc..) - so to prepare for my next fair on July 4th I've done the following to it (turned it counter clockwise from how it was in the bag originally - see below and I changed out the eiffel tower tag I had for this July 4th one) in hopes I can sell the rest of what I have -



Just thought you might find this as humorous as I do - what is that old addage - turn lemon into lemondade.

Hilary

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