Venice

When I was in Venice, 21 years ago, I was so touched by the beauty of Murano glass and the masks for carnival.The colours of Venice are so inspiring.

Snow...

Everyone who thinks he or she has a white dog.....must certainly agree, that when snow falls...??

Sure the doggie could use a warm bath. I made new doggie soap with lovely teatree oil, citronella, lavender. All essential oils and this time had to test it on Gioia herself.

Happy New Year's Eve

We wish you a wonderful 2010, in good health, among people you love and in your personal goals. Remember : it is not important what you do , as long as you do it with your heart!

Please click on the bottle and glasses, to see our New Year's wishes card we send to you all and knock on the door to come in!

Lots of love from Georgette and Gioia

Warm Christmas Wishes

We wish all our friends from blogspot, and followers a lovely and beautiful Christmas time.

Enjoy the snow, enjoy people you love and don't forget people who live alone, or are hospitalised.

Children who are in pain, or do not have a warm home to go to. They will love it to spent Christmas with your families.

If you have something to give.. it divides your happiness! A smile , a present, time to give or just listen to a lonely person.Every person has something to offer, small or big... rich or poor, we all have something beautiful.

So enjoy this time of year and we wish you a healthy and lovely 2010.

Candy Time

Christmas allways is a time of eating more than you are used to. We eat candies, turkey or just nice things you like. To me, personally I allow myself chocolate truffles with champaign or just truffles on a milk chocolate base. So , because I really must loose some weight, I made some Candies and chocolate truffle soap with raspberries. Not feeling guilty ........ now....

Have an wonderfull happy and blessed holidays. This little poem is for you all!

"Keep whispering your heart dreams, because you never know when,

Your angel is listening "

Snickerdoodle Buttercream

Reading this name for a fragrance oil, was a great gift.Ofcourse there are tremendous good scentmakers in this world. But surprisingly, this one is real like you want to eat it. Eatible, adorable and sellable.You can describe it as : nuts, cream caramel, butter, and hints of honey en slightly roasted peanuts. Real Cold Process made this time.

Christmas Eve

We love this time of year. Today we have Saint Nicolas who will be staying here for a while to give the children presents. ( similar to Santa Clause). A nice tradition a family matter.

We allready made some christmas soaps, with lovely scents as : cranberries, vanilla, honey and nice woody scents with cinnamon and apple. We wish you a lovely Saint Nicolas and we continue with the christmas products.

Autum Leaves

This is the time of the falling leaves... and nature changing into such refined colours.

Time to put on some candles in the homes and thinking about warm apple pie with custard. Thinking about new things, going with the flow...

Summer soap cakes

Proud was I to make some summer soap cakes, for a special couple. Hope they will enjoy it.

Love this smell of strawberry smoothies with lots of other ripe fruit perfume oils. Love this smell of summer time ! Have a lovely summer time yall.

Whipped Coconut Body cream lavender/bergamot

This brandnew whipped coconut cream is lovely made with almond oil, coconut oil, cocoabutter, emulsifying wax , and stearic acid. Also I put some lovely flavours in it, a combination of lavender and bergamot. Not only a silky feeling on the skin, but great smell for this summer!

Secondly I made some garden bouquets for fun and customers to giveaway.

Romantic summer

During the last weeks I have been preparing some diverse things: smelling bags with lavender and rose petals. It brings summer so near to you :) Next week we will be having a fair on the farm so, then we will need them to smell and sell. But also ofcourse the traditional soaps who allways are favourite items for our clients.

Strawberry Vanilla Drizzle

The Stéphanie soaps are selling nicely! But it could be better.. so I started to make some summer soap like strawberry. Really love the smell of it. The vanilla cream drizzle on top is also smelling nicely.

this makes it a real summer feeling soap.

Donorsoap: Stéphanie ( Olympic Games)

There was a customer who ordered in my shop.She gave her website adress so I had a look at it. It appeared she had been given a new lung thrue transplantation. Again I felt so lucky , I only have astma and COPD lung problems, but I am much older. So I decided to send her this order freely and we both invented a sponsor soap to realize her plans to go to Australia as a topsport woman! The soap is nicely perfumed with fresh linnen and fragrant cream!Coloured by natural rose clay.

The Donorsoap is in the shop at this moment. So, Stéphanie, I hope we will sell them in a large scale. Stéphanie: YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

Strawberry Mango cupcakes

Cupcakes are very popular, so yesterday spring made me long for strawberries and mango. The smell is heavenly they fizz in the bathtub, not so overwhelmingly, but nicely and gentle.

Bath cupcakes

Today our order arrived , so I was able to make some trial cupcakes. In a way I succeeded; they have a nice colour, lovely flavours and nice constistency.

Unfortanetely, the topping did not succeed nicely. Next time I will make the icing thicker, so that the toppings are looking more "ICED". They have the fragrances : Pear combined with blackberries.

Raspearry Fizzies!

Dear followers, and other dear people, Yesterday there was some kind of spring in the air. Not so overwhelming, but anyway nice and we must be gratefull every day brings us.So I longed for flavours as raspberry and pears, melons. This is what turned out : Raspearry Fizzies. You put them in your tube, or if you don't have one, can use it as footbath as well. They fizz all over and you smell the lovely fruits!They are coloured with natural green and rose clay. The topping is the raspberry.

Hyacinth

My mother , she is 75, loves this woman. She is amazing, in her role as "Hyacinth". This soap was inspired by her and smells lovely with hyacinths notes and some lovely Stephanotis ( which is a bridal flower).

It became a classical soap with some grace i think. Lots of sheabutter and coconut oil.Coloured with natural annato powder and ci 7007 ( ultramarin Violet)

Buttermilk soap in the mall

Today it felt like spring in a way. There was some sunshine but still some cold.

Liked to make a buttermilk soap. It is made with biological fresh buttermilk which was pasteurized :)

The soap is uncoulored, and I made a blend of essential oils like: grapefruit, lime, litsea, patchouli, lemon, lemongrass,bergamot, chamomille,clove and ravensara.

In addition I put perfume oil cranberries in it. The smell is like a garden of citrus/orange like a little fruit basket. Tomorrow it will be seen , when it is cut.

Rosemary

The lovely customer this time wanted a rosemary soap. It had to be made hot processed, because she wants to sell them and not wait 6 weeks to cure. The blend suceeded gratefully with rosemary, litsea, peppermint, lavender and elemi ( essential oils).

The colour was not so good, mixing green natural clay with chlorofyll, but it was cheerfull enough.

The customer made this lovely picture and cutted the soap ( which came as a loaf) herself! We think she did a great job!