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Artisan soaps made from luxurious oils and exotic butters with milks, creams and silk fibers; to the whimsy of glycerine soap creations. Full of fluffy bubbles and velvet lathers, once your skin it treated to handmade soap you will never go back. bytheSEAsoap was born out of the love of TSPink soap rocks some fifteen years ago. I found those soaps at a Nevada City Art Gallery and my obsession for beauty in a bar of soap began. I still have a small piece of that first soap! ~~Pam Mella~~


Saturday, April 6, 2013

Elemental my dear Watson!

On to week 2 of the GreatCakesSoapWorks 2013 Spring Soaping Challenge.  What a wonderful group of soapers completed week  1,  such talent and beautiful soaps!  Soapsporn for the summer to mull over yeah!  Thank you  Amy Warden  ,  thank you so much for the nudge and for inspiring a search in the tool cabinet once again.  Oh and I have an idea for another challenge Amy if you need one!

It took me almost a week to dream up what I would attempt for my challenge as most of my supplies are in storage right now as we have listed our home for sale.  Here is the Moon and the Stars with the Sand and  the Surf.  Four elements that move me and give me great joy.   Like many of the 2013 challenge community I too went with a know accelerating fragrance because it smells so great and doesn't discolor! You can see the pockets where the flow wasn't!



These soaps didn't follow the rules exactly.  Rather that in the pot swirls I did in the cup swirls with inclusions and micas then poured in sections.  The moon section has mica lines, the star section has star inclusions with mica, the sea has mica streaks and the sand has ground nut hulls and mica.  It was a very messy  production but with each new challenge new lessons are learned. And I had fun messing things up!


 YES I will do this one again I really like it even though it is a rough go this time!  I am so looking forward to seeing what others imaginations came up with.  Oh and thank you  to a most favorite soaptician for inspiring this beginner.  Happy Saturday everyone!  ~~Pam Mella~~




14 comments:

  1. Wow, I really, really like the four different sections :)

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  2. Wow, all elements in one! Looks great!

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  3. great combos for 4 elements in one. well done

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  4. I love your take on this challenge! Great soap, Pam!

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  5. really unique and pretty!

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  6. Great soap Pam, a very unique take on the challenge.

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  7. Thank you all of you for stopping by and for your lovely comments. I can't wait for this one to cure as I made it for our family and I want to use it! The challenges sure do stir the imagination and your soaps are all so beautiful and one of the kind treasures to be sure!

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  8. Precious! I love it, not only because blue is my favourite colour :) it's really original

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  9. Thank you Mountain Scentaments and you Rama! Another soap maker inspired this soap and I put my twist on it. We inspire one another! I like how the cocoa butter made the whole thing like velvet cream but that addition probably helped my soap trace quickly.

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  10. CeeGee and Diva thank you for dropping in!

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