My newest creative endeavor has been to make cell phone cozies! I don't know how it all came about, possibly as a branch off of my soap cozies. The first one I made I kept and I LOVE It. It keeps my salt soap and I use it to wash my feet every night; it's like a nightly ritual for me and I so look forward to it.
One of the first soap cozies - 100% cotton yarn - really simple.
Then I thought, geez, I have all these small quantities of handspun bling art yarn that I just love but is too small an amount to make anything out of, other than a skinny scarf with a bunch of them, which I've already made a bunch of, so I made these phone cozies with drawstrings.
First cell phone cozy =>
Also just listed two new bars of soap and they are so awesome! This black pepper basil with poppy seeds smells utterly wonderful, if you like spicy. It's a nice white bar and the poppy seeds offer the perfect contrast.
<= Lemon Mint Lip Balm
One of the first soap cozies - 100% cotton yarn - really simple.
Then I thought, geez, I have all these small quantities of handspun bling art yarn that I just love but is too small an amount to make anything out of, other than a skinny scarf with a bunch of them, which I've already made a bunch of, so I made these phone cozies with drawstrings.
First cell phone cozy =>
Then, I bought some needles and a book and started needle felting flowers and other simple images on them. I really like the dimensionality the felting brings, and I have all the materials already - loose locks, roving, etc. I don't think I'm very good at it yet but I ended up keeping one of these too and the more I take it in and out of my purse the better and better it looks - the motion kind of helps felt everything down :)
Also just listed two new bars of soap and they are so awesome! This black pepper basil with poppy seeds smells utterly wonderful, if you like spicy. It's a nice white bar and the poppy seeds offer the perfect contrast.
Then, the uber successful experimental bar - lemon cocoa. We made some lemon mint lip balm and I really like the flavor so I decided to use some lemon essential oil and and cocoa powder in a soap and it turned out amazing! We sprinkled some cocoa powder along the tops of the bars and it looks really pretty, smells really yummy, and it's a great bar of sudsy creamy soap!
Lemon Cocoa Soap!
<= Lemon Mint Lip Balm
Coming up later this month are a washcloth set, a vanilla cocoa soap (another fun experiment with cocoa powder), and a dead sea clay soap for The Savvy Soap. And I think I'm going to spin up some bling fiber into a single ply art yarn. Those always turn out so unique and fun and then I can offer a full skein of all this fun yarn that I make all these little projects with!
