Summer Studio Tour: 1

Today I'm joining Heather, at Beauty That Moves, with a summer studio post. The idea is to share some glimpses of your creative time throughout the week. Sometimes I need a bit of spurring on, to make sure I fit in some creative time, so this seemed just the ticket. This picture is one of the vintage silk scarves I'll be turning into eye pillow covers. The first step is washing them with my homemade liquid soap, and letting them line dry.

A batch of lavender soap, ready to transfer to a drying rack.


Some ivory silk with designs sketched out in glue. When dry, they'll be painted, then sewn into eye pillows.


Some patchouli soap, just poured into the mold.

How about you? What creative endeavors have you been up to this week? Join in, and share a glimpse with us each Friday.

Hot Stuff

Today, Joseph & I made salsa & pepper jelly. Both of them are hot!! I had been thinking of Sweet Red Pepper jelly, which I recently realized I like when it's put over cream cheese and then on crackers. We needed to do something with all the peppers remaining, and it so happens many of them were hot ones. So, we've got hot instead of sweet this round. In between, I took some photos of my newest soap, Green Tea Facial Bar, and worked on the font for my labels. My marketing friend, Bob, over at EcoBlend, suggested I use a clearer font, one that makes my name more legible. I'm happy with the result.