Good For You

Check out Shelly's delectable soaps...almost yummy enough to eat and good for you too!


by Body Deli by Shelly



My name is Shelly I love to make soaps, body creams, and mineral makeup with healthy ingredients. I stay at home and LOVE what I do! My products are made from scratch with my wonderful recipes and most of the novelties soaps are made from silicone molds I made from real food. Create body products and makeup is my passion!

http://www.bodydelibyshelly.etsy.com/

I just created my blog, also have website, twitter and flickr accounts.
Have a peek!

http://www.shellyfrancesminerals.com/
http://shellyfrancesminerals.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/shellycosmetics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shellyfrancescosmetics/

Behind The White Door! or "Going into the closet!"

Here are some new items behind the red door.

You've seen what is behind my red door.

Here is what is behind the white door!

Check out Soap Sense. I loooove Dana's creative use of space!

Soap Sense

"Behind the White Door."

My Etsy shop, SoapSense, is relatively new, although I have been making cold processed soap for many years. Last weekend, I set aside several hours to organize my soap-making ingredient closet. The top shelf is fragrances and essential oils to make the soaps smell wonderful! The middle shelf stores every skin-nourishing oil imaginable. The bottom is miscellaneous ingredients from salts, to dried flower petals, to crushed seeds.

My favorite soap making steps are creating recipes, and unmolding that latest batch of soap to see how it turned out.

Thanks for creating this unique feature...I have enjoyed looking at everyone else's workspace too!

Dana Meanor SoapSense on Etsy: http://www.soapsense.etsy.com/

Now This Is How It's Done

Well ...we got to see my messy creating space ~ yes it does need some T.L.C.. Dee's space on the other hand looks wonderfully clean and organized.
Barefoot Bath and Body has got organization down pact!

Don't let Dee fool you. Look how organized her space is!

Check out Dee's Space.

An inspiration!

Feature ~ Barefoot Bath & Body

Hi, I'm Dee and here is my workspace(well, one of them at least!). I have a large craft room/studio/shipping center upstairs that is the size of a two car garage...I love it!

On one wall is a full length table which I have divided up into what is now two sections...scrapbooking, the other section is shipping. The shipping section used to be jewelry making, but I'm not a skilled jeweler and found the creations I was making could be made by anyone, in other words not unique...so I quickly gave that up.

On the other wall is my soap curing and storing racks, a bookcase which holds all my needlework and yarn, and books that I adore...plus I have an antique rocker there so I can be comfy should I choose to take up one of a hundred different needlework projects I have taken up and abandoned due to other interests.

Then there is my sewing machine! I dream about and make soap, lip balms, and in the fall and winter candles and body butter balms. Over two years ago I got fed up with big company soaps...the detergents in them were killing my skin..so I got to work researching the art of soapmaking. Originally I started with Melt and Pour...and found not all melt and pour bases are made equally...so I strive to keep my melt and pour stock of the highest quality. After Melt and Pour I moved cautiously into Cold Process soap making. I say cautiously as making soap should not be entered into flippantly. There are safety concerns for not only the soaper, but for the consumer as well.I make my soap in the kitchen and laundry room of my home. These areas I did not photograph as they look like typical kitchens and laundry rooms...

My favorite tool is my stick blender! Oh my I could kiss the inventor of that little tool! It has reduced the trace time of my cold process soaps down from 3 hours to a little under 15 minutes or less!

As you can see by my pictures I'm not very organized. My entire house is spotlessly clean, but my craft room is the place where I kind of let go and if it is easy to reach and more convenient to be in a mess...then I will leave it that way. Some days I have a lot of orders and there is no time to put shipping materials away after each use. The one thing I do insist on and do practice ad nauseum however, is all my paperwork is put away in a timely and orderly manner.

I draw inspiration from my surroundings. I live out in a wooded area, so nature and all the fantastic colors I see every day inspire me. My daughter also inspires me...especially when I'm in a rut she gives me ideas, which, not surprisingly end up being best sellers!

You can see Dee's wonderful soap products at http://www.barefootbathandbody.etsy.com/