Thinking about scrapbooking!

I am looking through the wonderful Close to My Heart Sprng and Summer catalog.  I can't wait to get my hands on the beautiful papers and stamps!  I plan on having a workshop in late April.  Care to join me?

Finally, a new soap is ready!

This is an invigoratingly fresh spearmint eucalyptus soap.  I look the subtle scent and the clean feeling of showering with it.  Check out My Etsy Shop .  Thanks!

A delightful lavender soap

Well, I have finally discovered how to swirl colors in soap.  I combined that knowledge with a delectable lavender essential oil from Jardin du Soleil in Sequim.  Put two and two together and voilà:

On the curing rack on January 24. It will be ready around February 21, just in time for my birthday!  Happy soaping!

Happy 2012!!!

I hope 2012 will bring

more happiness than sadness,
more fortune than misfortune,
more hope than despair

for us all.

We made two types of soap this weekend.

English rose was made with rose clay and English rose fragrance oil.  It is on the curing rack so I imagine it will change somewhat when I bring it back out in a few weeks. 

The other soap we made is lilac scented, but it's just been put to bed and is not ready for its debut just yet.  More on that later.

2012 will be the year we go whole hog on our soap business.  We've changed the name of our company to something more pronounceable:  Prairie Sunshine Soaps. 

Look out, soap world, here we come!  :)

Just listed our first soap on Etsy!

It has been a long time coming, but we are finally happy enough with our homemade soap to list one on Etsy.  It is a delightfully frragrant gingerbread vanilla soap.  We packaged them with Christmas scrapbook paper and homemade labels.  We are also giving some as gifts for the holidays coming up. 

Thanks for reading! 

Our Etsy shop

Cultivating creativity this weekend...

I love weekends for that laid-back, relaxed feeling.  This is when I love to create.  Almost finished with another scarf.  I hope to start my first amigurumi project this weekend too. 

Here is DS with the Domo wallet he gave his dad for his birthday. 

Très mignon!

Not enough time...

I don't mean to complain, but I continually find that there is just not enough time to engage in my creative hobbies the way I'd like.  I guess that is what summers are for, considering I am fortunate enough to get my summers off. 

On the bright side, the kids and I have some days off this week that will be very much appreciated.  Happy November and Happy Thanksgiving!

A pic of my two favorite kiddos in the whole wide world!