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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Cosmic Wave Challenge

Cosmic Sherbet Wave   Update 11/16/16 Whoo-hoo! Second Place!!! Thank you to all that voted for me in this challenge! Your support means the world to me!      Welcome! Can you believe we are nearing the end of 2016? What a year! Whether you are glad it is almost over or not, I am certain I […]

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Dye Alpaca, Dye!

Dyeing Alpaca Fleece with Kool-Aid and Wilton Icing Colors      With my latest fixation of creating soaps to enter into Amy Warden’s Soap Challenge Club, I have ended up with a lots and lots of soap, some pretty, some not so much. Those in the “Not So Much” category seem to be sitting on the […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Wood Grain Challenge

Wood You Be Mine?   Welcome! I’m back again, just in time for Amy Warden’s October Soap Challenge Club. The objective of this month’s challenge was to create a soap that looks like wood, specifically focusing on the grain of the wood itself. This month, we again had two categories in which to enter – Natural or Synthetic, and while the end […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Dancing Funnel Challenge

Dancing Under the Tuscan Sun     Welcome! It’s August, and boy, oh boy is it HOT here in Colorado!  Don’t get me wrong, I actually love August in Colorado because it usually starts out hotter than a billy goat’s butt in a pepper patch, but gets cooler and cooler as every week goes by. […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Pipe Divider Swirl Challenge

Breath of Scandal   Please accept my apologies in advance for the extremely long post. My intention was to create something with just the right amount of information – not too much to be overly repetitive for those currently in the competition, yet descriptive enough for those who want to learn the technique. I hope next time […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Sculpted Layers Challenge

Update! (6/22/16) Thank you to all who voted for my design! Your support means everything to me!  Blue Moon   Welcome! June – Is it really June already?  I can’t believe summer is pretty much in full swing. It feels like it snuck up out of nowhere. To be honest, I have been so oblivious […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Impression Mat Challenge*

 *(December 2015) This soap was created for the December 2015 Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club “Impression Mat Challenge”. This entry was originally posted on my Pinterest board and I have recreated it here for the purpose of my blog. Cute as a Button   Welcome! This month’s challenge for Amy Warden’s Soap Challenge Club was “impression Mats”. The […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Teardrop Challenge

Tears of Mother Earth   Welcome! This month’s challenge for Amy Warden’s Soap Challenge Club was the Teardrop Technique. The objective of the challenge was to create a teardrop formation in our soap but I have to admit, tear drops in soap weren’t the only tears created! Along with tears of frustration there was also quite a bit of hair […]

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Great Cakes Soap Challenge Club Location Theme Challenge

Update! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your support and votes! Welcome! This month’s challenge for Amy Warden’s Soap Challenge Club was a theme challenge. The theme? Location, location, location! We were challenged to design a soap based on where we live – either now or where we have lived in the […]

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