Saturday, Dec 11th, 2010 -- Today is SILICON SOAP MOLD DAY! LOL!

It's Saturday and today we are going to put up our Christmas tree.  We're a little late this year LOL.  But, better late than never.  I've had the tree for a couple of days already but I was waiting for DH to get home yesterday since putting up the tree is a family event :-)

Now, for some soaping news.... I purchased some new silicon molds this past week and finally got to use them this morning.  One mold I found on ebay.... it's an old "KitchenAid" mold of a rag doll :-)  I can not wait to see how the soap turns out....

I also found some other molds this past week - one is a flower, another is a teddy bear, another is a beautiful butterfly, and the last one is a cupcake.  So, this morning, I made enough soap to be able to pour all of these just to see how they do.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be unmolding all of the soaps that I poured this morning.

And more on the subject of molds.... a couple of weeks ago, I ordered some molds from someone on Etsy.  They are all silicon molds.  So, they are perfect for molding soaps!  THIS MORNING the mail lady delivered them!!!!

The one I was most excited about was the "bugs" - this one mold has bees, butterflies, dragonflies, and lady bugs.  This is going to be perfect for this coming spring!   I like the mold because it is pretty thin silicon - I've found that the thinner silicon (for shaped molds) seem to work better for me. 

Another mold has 4 "Hello Kitty" faces :-)  Then one mold has 4 little teddy bear faces. 

Then there is a mold that I've really been looking for - it's a 1/2 sphere.  I got two of these (each one has six cavitites).  I want to be able to embed some round balls into my soap logs.  So, what I'll do is pour these 1/2 spheres and then stick them together to make a ball and then embed the ball into the soap log :-)

Also in my Etsy order was a solid silicon loaf mold and a small Christmas tree mold (with 6 cavities).  I'll also be giving both of these a try within the next couple of days.

So - that's my SILICON SOAP MOLD DAY ...

Tonight I will also be listing some more soaps on my Etsy... I've been a little lazy in getting my blog updated and getting the soaps listed so I have some catching up work to do :-)  Stay tuned!