New ceramics for Summer 2013. Peg it & Decorate

Ive been meaning to show these on my blog for ages. 
It takes about 6 months for a new idea to materialise into something that I can finally show or take photographs of. 
These little wooden pegs have a magnetic strip on the reverse so they can be used on fridges to pin up cards, messages or whatever.
Covered in decorative paper with a little porcelain disc attached onto the top. 

Easy Peasy!!

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Go make soap! ....

Back in March 2011 I made a few batches of cold pressed soap and put a few of my favourite recipes on the blog, after the soap had set I sliced it into rectangles and stored it away in my airing cupboard for it to cure, its been a few months now and its colour is paler and the soap has gone hard ready to use. This soap has loads of tiny bubbles when its used and the scent is very mild. I've decided that some will be given away as small gifts this Christmas so I set about packaging it with some lovely printed papers, this is how I did it....



A selection of patterned papers to wrap around the soap.




The papers were cut into rectangles approx 25cm x 10cm and folded around each soap and secured with paper string.





Here is the cured soap I made back in March 2011. The recipe for calendula & orange soap is here, and the recipe for Goats milk a & Almond butter is here.



After the soap is wrapped I attatched a label with the soap name and ingredients onto the string

The labels were designed in a word document and printed onto regular white card.



Finished soap!