Nothing is original

As soon as you can accept that, the better. I don't mean that people shouldn't try to come up with their own ideas, just don't get too emotionally tied to them. This way when you see someone else has done it before your heart wont be broken.. During the pimp your palette contest I got really into embossing, and I feared that it was going to be just another hobby to add to the list and I'd be wasting my money... but then I had an Aha! moment.. I could use this to stamp my soap! Sure enough it worked beautifully, I just stuck the embossing stamp in the bottom of my mold, poured the soap, and when it was done I just needed to carefully pull the stamp out of the soap. It looks so fancy, but was very little work.

THEN I saw this: Soap Queen's Holiday Stamp Project

She definitely thought of this way before me.. but it doesn't mean that it wasn't a good idea, or that I shouldn't do it. It just is kind of frustrating.

Then I started watching all of her videos and got really excited about the idea of using water soluble paper. Here is an etsy seller that capitalizes on using this idea. Though I am sure it is against copyright using all of those images, it is still really cool. So if you are reading Kaila, please bring water soluble paper to TKB! I'm sure there are endless possibilities with the designs you could come up with, though you would be committed to using clear M&P..

Ok, there is my rant of the day :)

Long time no bloggity blog

Well, I was busy working on my submissions to the "Pimp Your Palette" contest, and I am eagerly awaiting the results so I can see if mine made the cut and also I can't wait to share and see everyone else's creations. Other than that I have been compiling a recipe book of sorts, but I get really distracted with it because right now my brain is half soap and half mmu. I need to learn to focus just on one topic rather than worry about the big picture.. if that makes sense.

I'm excited to finish my color grind experiment. I'm waiting on a package from TKB with more pigments. If you don't know what my color grind experiment is, it is basically just me mixing the different oxides to get secondary and tertiary colors from the primary ones.. While I have found some beautiful colors, some I will still just order. I am glad I found some alternatives to chromium oxide green. I am not 100% against COG, but I would rather use oxides since I have that option. I will post the final color wheels or gradients when I am done with the percentages. So fingers crossed on next week, since I should be getting my package tomorrow (according to fed ex).

I hope to start blogging more, I'll have to make up some kind of template of what to talk about, as Kaila had mentioned in one of her blog posts (http://tkbtrading.blogspot.com/2010/04/where-to-get-ideas-for-your-blog.html). Well, I guess she was talking more about a schedule..

Any ideas on what you would like to read?