Christmas is coming!  I love this time of the year! This is the year that I am opening up for two major products - Making soap and creating Christmas ornaments.

The Christmas Star Ornament is comprised of hand formed air dry clay that when dry is hand painted by me and applied with "fairy dust" biodegradable glitter, sealed with a glossy finish and then attaching a baker's twine hanger.

Measurements are almost 3 inches from point to point.

Great care will be taken to ensure that this ornament arrives in one piece by ensuring there is plenty of bubble wrap, strong cardboard boxing and plenty of sweet thoughts accompanying each order.

This price is for one ornament but of course, may than one may be ordered!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Christmas is on its way. I love this time of the year!  

This Christmas ornament was made by me using air dry clay that I prepared and then hand painted and used a glossy sealer to "make it shine!".  The blue star has a cute little face peaking through a fir wreath. This is my own design.  There is a baker's twine hanger making it all ready for the tree!  

This would make a wonderful teacher's gift or for anyone on your list!  

Measurements:  3" from point to point.

Christmas is coming! I love this time of the year, don't you?

I designed, shaped and hand painted each sweater and then sealed each with a glossy varnish and attached baker's twine to each ornament.  Christmas sweaters seem to go hand in glove with the season! Wouldn't this be a sweet gift for a teacher, daycare person or just many other suggestions!

The ornament measures 4 inches wide and 2 3/4 inches long.

Great care will be taken to ensure that the ornament arrives at its destination in one piece!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Christmas is coming!  I love this time of the year, don't you?

I designed, shaped and hand painted each clay Santa ornament and then sealed each with a glossy varnish and attached baker's twine to each ornament.  Wouldn't this be a sweet gift for a teacher or daycare provider or just so many other suggestions?

The ornament measures almost 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Great care will be taken to ensure that the ornament arrives at its destination in one piece!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

We are already seeing Christmas ads and that has me exited - excited to be making great quality handmade soap just for you!

These bars are made with top quality ingredients using handmade soap dough to create the embedded leaves and blueberries.   The blue swirl was fun to do and goes through the soap loaf!

The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide and distilled water.  The mica colorants are blue and green and the soap dough has the same ingredients as the basic soap recipe. The soap was scented with Moon Child fragrance oil which has become one of my new favorites!  Of course, each soap is made with LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight of each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

Shipping charges are on a per soap basis.

I just received a new mica colorant, called Ectoplasm, and I just love it and could not wait to make some soap with it.  It is a rich turquoise/aqua blue.  I did not want to do just a plain soap bar but I thought a jagged pencil line near the midline would look great.  To me it would be like a finding a vein of copper or gold.  The sparkly copper mica I have was my first choice.   The pencil line looks dark in the photo but it is clearly a shiny copper line! I hope you like my choice!  I left the top of the soap really jagged.  

These bars are made with top quality ingredients. The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water, mica colorants used were Ectoplasm and Copper Sparkle.  The scent i used was Honey Patchouli fragrance oil and these soap bars are made with LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight of each soap bar is 4.7 ounces.

Shipping charges are per bar of soap.

Feel free to come back and visit me anytime as new soaps and products will be added from time to time.

Thanks for stopping by!

This should come as no surprise to anyone but I love sunflowers!  I chose The Sunflower Cupboard as the name of my business and I have painted many many items with sunflowers!  Also, when I had a garden, I planted lots of sunflowers!  

I wanted to make the soap a little extra special so I created a sunflower and leaf out of soap dough which I also made.  

It is scented with Vetiver fragrance oil, which is a complex scent and just lovely!

This soap would be a wonderful gift for a gardener (novice or expert) or of course anyone who just loves sunflowers, teachers, coworkers, family members....they sky is the limit!!  

I live in an apartment now and get compliments on how nice it is to go past my door and enjoy whiffs of whatever soap I have just made and of course, my apartment always is delightfully scented!  

Oh, yes....this is definitely a bakery-inspired soap...carrot cake!  This was a fun piece to work on.  I created the carrots out of homemade soap dough (who knew there was such a thing?).  There is of course a layer of cream cheese frosting on top with a cake layer under that with little specks provided by vanilla bean powder.  The scent is Cinnamon as I always think of carrot cake as being not just yummy but a bit of a scent cinnamon as well.

Soap making has become a passion of mine, not just the many choices for scents but to expand on what soap can look like.  I do love the traditional looking soap but I do love a challenge!  I hope you do too!

Please do consider soap as a great gift opportunity especially as the Holiday Season is upon us - teacher gift, coworker gift, stocking stuffers....the list can go on!

Please stop by and visit with me often as I am adding soaps all year round especially now that I have unpacked and set up my craft storage room to include soap storage and curing.

Winter and Christmas Season are coming soon!  I have been working on my Winter collection and this was one piece I loved designing and making!  

I wanted a red and white swirl design but also a topical design and chose green leaves and holly berries with an extra sprinkle of snow on top.  Not only does it look great but it smells wonderful!  The swirl is both bold and wispy!  This is sure to be a great gift (or a gift for you)!  

It really is versatile and lovely soap!

Please stop by when you can as I am adding new soaps often.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Nice to know that we know where twinkle twinkle little star is...It is right here in this soap.  No really, there are little eco-friendly stars embedded on top and inside the soap!  As I mentioned, the stars are biodegradable which is so cool!  

This was a fun piece to design and hopefully you like it!  Just in time for Christmas and Winter.  

Great for a teacher gift, coworker gift, friend, stocking stuffer...and the list goes on!

Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Please stop by as you can as I am adding new soaps to my shop!

The scent on this is amazing....so crisp and clean (eucalyptus and peppermint).  I decided to make this a 3 layer soap starting with a dark indigo, then a medium indigo and then a very creamy off white with a softly carved top.  It looks very stylish and the scent is memorable!  

This soap probably will not be available very long - lots of positive feedback.  Would be a wonderful stocking stuffer, coworker gift (for everyone), hostess gift...you are only limited by your imagination!  No, seriously this soap is amazing!

A wee bit early but just in case I don't have a chance to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Color-wise, this soap could be suitable for both Fall and Winter/Christmas - red/green/gold colors and to make it really special it is scented with a mix of Apple Bourbon and Kentucky bourbon scents!  The top of the bar is swirled with the above-mentioned colors and the addition of dried cranberry seeds as well!

Getting started on Fall and Holiday soaps is my happy time!  So many ideas and sometimes not enough time but I am getting there!  

We moved in April and spent a good amount of time and more setting up my "soaping area" which has ended up being stored in a nice den off the kitchen/living room and my old standby art table in the same area of the kitchen/living room.  

I am truly in my happy space now and will be creating more soap and art in the years to come!

Hope you all have a wonderful Fall, Christmas, New Year and rest of the year and on and on and on!

I have been wanting to add a slice of orange to a soap for a while and it was fun to make it happen.  It is a spicy cinnamon scented soap and the two colors are wonderful.  I hand sliced and dried the orange slice on each soap.  I also added dried cranberry seeds to the top of the soap.  I really liked the look of the orange slice and may be making a key lime pie soap and add a slice of lime on top!  Stay tuned!

This would be a lovely gift for that special someone you know who loves botanicals and spicy hand soaps and Christmas is coming!   

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!