Traveling Faux Funnel soap technique

As soon as I came back from California, I made another batch of soap with the Travelling Faux Funnel soap technique. I showed my first attempt at this technique in my previous post. This time the soap batter was a bit more fluid, so the design looks slightly different. I call this soap "carnival", it is scented with Daystar's Paradise.

my meeting with Tatsiana Serko (steso)

I haven't updated my blog for a while, although I have a lot of things to share! I have been experimenting with some new soap techniques, but today I'd like to tell about my meeting with Tatsiana Serko, known as steso. In September I visited her in California and we spent a wonderful week together!

We walked on the beach near the Cliff House & Sutro Baths:



me and Tatsiana on the beach

We took a ride on the famous San Francisco cable cars:

on the cable car in San Francisco

we walked all the way to Pier 39:


me and Tatsiana at pier 39, San Francisco

and visited a lot of other places! You can see some other pictures on my Instagram.

Tatsiana is a wonderful person, very nice, relaxing, creative, generous, thoughtful, and she is a fun to be with! I really enjoyed spending time with her... And course we had been making soap!


Here are 2 cold-process rimmed soap we made together. The first is scented with BrambleBerry's Cucumber Oak:

 

The second is scented with an Amber fragrance:

 

Not long before my trip to California I saw on pinterest this amazing yellow and black soap by La Perle. I fell in love with it! Naturally, me and Tatiana tried to recreate this soap technique, :) I call it a traveling faux funnel swirl.  The soap scented with brambleberry's Kumquat was our first attempt at this technique - it's not perfect, but not too bad either!

I also got a lot of gifts from Tatsiana! I will show them a bit later, they deserve a separate post! :)

Feathered ITP Swirl 2

The feathered in-the-pot swirl technique is fun, so I made another soap using it. :) The soap is scented with McIntosh Apple fragrance oil, and is colored with Nurture Soap's yellow mica and Really Red! mica (it really is an amazing red, isn't it?).

 

and one more photo: