Stirring the soap pot

I thought I'd show you what my 'work place' looks like:

I've been busy the previous weekend, packaging and labelling my soaps to sell at Craftworld, Westgate. I made four different soaps and after 2 months of curing they were finally ready.

Summer Fling is a summer scent full of summer fruits,

such as raspberries and peaches,

accompanied by the floral notes of magnolia, cyclamen and lilies

and finishing off with lingering white musk.

Sweetgrass, a bright and green scented soap.

Not the herbal grass scent, rather a sweet and fresh summer scent.

Sweet Valentine, which is a sweet and floral soap

with a fruity scent of dew fruit and lychee,

finishing off with a subtle fragrance of lily and geranium.

And Honey, Oats and Milk soap is made

with real milk, oats and manuka honey.

The oats give it an gentle exfoliating effect,

the milk and honey are full of skin soothing properties.

The soaps are available at Craftworld in Westgate (West Auckland).

Or for online shoppers, either at my Etsy store (international orders),

or for those in New Zealand, at my Felt store.

Love Hearts

The past week I've been knitting lots and lots of hearts! These are just the ones from the last Wednesday.

I wanted to design a heart pattern that didn't need any sewing up and you could knit in one go. I also wanted it to look good both felted and unfelted.

It took me a while to tweak the corners and get the heart all nicely rounded and tidy.

As you can see the hot pink heart behind the light pink heart is one of my earlier prototypes. It still looks a bit bumpy. But the light pink heart is how it should be: all nice and round.

I'm going to felt the rest of them and sell them at Craftworld (Westgate, Auckland).

The pattern (free) is now up at Ravelry: Love Hearts