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Soap Making–A Fragrant and Easy Recipe for Handmade Decorative Soaps

If you are looking for a unique party favor, guest soap, or maybe just a clever and crafty item to decorate the home with, try this very easy recipe for making a handmade decorative soap that will explode with a lush bouquet of floral fragrance and will impress your guests, gift recipient, or party goers.

You will need the following supplies:

• 2 lb Box – natural Glycerin soap found at most craft stores or online – We chose avocado cucumber
• Plastic soap mold – We chose both square & circle shapes with a flower motif
• Food coloring – We combined red & blue to make lavender
• Soap fragrance – We chose a pear berry scent, but you can also mix a variety of different fragrances
• 1 package of clear lollipop bags – We chose these because of the already built in ribbon
• 1 piece of decorative scrapbooking paper, 12in. x 12in.
• 1 piece of plain white scrapbooking paper, 12in.x 12in. – We chose to make our gift tags, but you can also use label stickers instead of making your own
• Raffia ribbon in a coordinating color – 1.5 to 2 yards, or 15 feet
• Crafts scissors
• Hole puncher
• Glass measuring cup – We used one with a handle for easy pouring
• Wax paper

Depending on the size of your mold, heat the desired amount of natural Glycerin soap in the microwave.  We used 2 small pieces of soap for a medium size mold.  So, for 2 small pieces heat on high for 10 seconds, then 5 seconds intervals until melted. Note: If you don’t have a microwave, a double boiler can be used.

Add food coloring, 2 – 3 drops per color.  Next, add your soap fragrance, 3-6 drops. Stir quickly and pour in to your mold and let cool (20-40 minutes).  While soaps are cooling, lay a piece of wax paper down on to your work space.  Using your thumbs, apply gentle, constant pressure to release from mold.

Wait 1-2 days until soaps are firm before placing in to the clear bags.  Now, for a few extra special touches, hand address paper gift tags or pre-made labels/stickers and set aside.  Using your craft scissors, cut decorative scrapbooking paper into strips long enough to wrap around the center of your soap.  Once you have determined the size of your strips, cut raffia ribbon the same length leaving enough so ribbon can be tied in to a bow.

If you are right handed, wrap a strip of decorative paper around the center of the soap & hold in place with your left hand.  Using your right hand, wrap the raffia ribbon around and over the top of your strip.  If you are left handed, just do the reverse.  Before securing the ends of the ribbon, we ran it thru the gift tag then tied a bow at the ends.  If you decide to do this step, punch a hole thru the top of your paper gift tag. 

Gently place your nicely wrapped soap in to the clear lollipop bags and nicely tie the ribbon to create a bow.  You now have a truly unique party favor, or unwrapped, an impressive and fragrant home décor item to add to the home. 

About the Author

Linda Johnson is a degreed and experienced crafter and interior/exterior decorating specialist, with years of experience helping friends, family, and clients solve their decorating and craft needs. Linda and her contributing writers invite you to submit your own great ideas for free, and also find tons more craft ideas and decorating projects like this with photos to try yourself

Does anyone have good love/friendship quotes?

I need some good love quotes to put in a scrapbook for my boyfriend for christmas. Maybe even some about friendship too!

"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you." --Roy Croft

"You had me at hello." - Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger) in Jerry Maguire (1996)

True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Jason Jordan

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch

If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to say I love you. unknown

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. English proverb

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough. G. Moore

Came but for friendship, and took away love.Thomas Moore

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me. Montaigne

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. Kyle Schmidt

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." Henry David Thoreau

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place." Ice T

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted. Aesop

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Friends are the sunshine of life." John Hay (1871)

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. Denis Waitley

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend. Albert Camus

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." Len Wein

"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."Fitzwilliam

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Readers Digest

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." Charles Caleb Colton

"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter." Marlene Dietrich

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence." George Eliot

"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

"A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget..."

"The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." Elizabeth Foley

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart." Kathleen Grove

"My wish upon this shooting star is that your heart be happy." Gilbert

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
- Woodrow Wilson

Seems like every where I go, the more I see the less I know. But I know one thing - that I love you. I love you, I love you, I Iove you. From "Say Hey" Michael Franti & Spearhead

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http://www.heartquotes.net/Love.html
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eoaTl7IcFs8

Brokaw FFA members compete in sub-district leadership events
Brokaw FFA members of Clarinda competed in Sub-District Leadership Events on Saturday, Feb. 20, at Corning High School in Corning. Members in all nine speaking events placed either first or second to advance on to the district level.

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