Winter Soap Challenge - Shelly

Shelly’s Finished Soap

It is time to bring the Winter Soap Challenge to a close but before we do, we have one more submission to share. Shelly submitted her soap challenge over the weekend and she did some amazing and rather unique things. I am not able to explain it nearly so eloquently so I will let her talk you through her soap.

Making Embeds

When receiving the breathtaking picture from Majestic Mountain Sage to create an inspired work of soap art by using the picture of ice topped mountains, a calm lake and an old forgotten fence, I knew that ALL of us would be up for a real Challenge indeed!! I pondered the picture, staring at the weathered brown fence and felt like this was the fence of yester year. The fence looked cold, worn and had nobody leaning upon its side to gain a rest, so that one may gaze into those majestic breathtaking mountains. The air felt crisp and awakened, ready for the day! The blue water seemed refreshed and awaits an eager fisherman to lend in its hook! Yet those snow capped mountains beckoned to me that there was a story here waiting to be told. It was all about that fence, that sad looking fence of yesteryear!

Making Embeds

Then it happened, as if inside a fairy tale dream! The mountain roared and could hold its peace no longer. The fence was twinkled upon from the dew drops that ran down the sides of its rugged post. In an instant a house stood strong! A little chimney was puffing away into the morning air that reflected life stirring within the walls. I could hear the echoes that reached thru the valley. Sounds of footsteps that were walking thru those wintery slopes! All the sounds were arriving and taking its rest at last, upon the doorway of this little house. Not a fence, to gander out to the coldness of the world, but to a house. A place where ALL travel to and find what they have been looking for all along, a home. Home was found, and that little old fence was gone, life had finally found a place to reside and start its humble winter morning.

Ready to Unmold

Thank you for reading my inspiration! The mountain voices are ALL the pieces of swap soaps from the 2014 Botanical Swap. I found it fitting to place a Botanical Swap collage into this majestic place. The Home represents “OUR” Majestic Mountain Sage and the Sage Forum. People gather from around the world to find a place, not that they can lean on, like an old raggedy fence, but a place that they can call their soaping home!

Finished Soaps

The aromas that flow from this winter soap, is one of a melody of morning song, written by the notes sung by each soap that was submitted in the last Botanical Swap of 2014. I added yet another note, one that I found fitting, I added my beloved fragrance oil from Majestic Mountain Sage itself, Old West! I found that this special noted scent help string together the chords that had been presented to me while dreaming of this very special Winter Morning Challenge indeed!

I have had so much fun receiving pictures of all of these soaps and hearing the thoughts behind them. Now for the hard part. Choosing the winners. The entire MMS staff will aid the in selection of the two winners. Check back on Friday to see who are the winners!