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Eine Freundin schickte mir folgenden Link zum Klatschblog Coco Perez. Offenbar hat sich Kate Moss mit dem Seifenvirus angesteckt. Ob es bald Bilder ihrer Seifen zu sehen gibt?

A friend of mine sent me this link to gossip blog Coco Perez. Apparently, Kate Moss has been infected with the soapmaking virus. I wonder if we'll be seeing any soaps of hers soon.

Die Seifen auf den Bildern hat meine Freundin C. hergestellt. Die liegende Lady war ein Rezept aus Claudia Kaspers Seifenbuch namens "Reines Gewissen", beduftet mit Lavendel. Die Venus war unbeduftet und mit Haferflocken versetzt.

In the pictures, you can see two of the soaps my friend C. made. The lady lying down was made with a recipe from Claudia Kasper's book called "Reines Gewissen"/Clear Conscience and is scented with lavender. The Venus is unscented and mixed with oat flakes.

Seifenblogpipes

Haven't had much time to post let alone to make any new soaps lately. Looking at other people's soap blogs is my methadone.

I had wanted to try Yahoo Pipes for a while, a web service which allows you to aggregate all kinds of web content, so I made a soap blog pipe a couple of months ago. INITIALLY, it worked very well and I had some eighty-x blogs feeding into the pipe. Perhaps you have seen the soapblogpipe widget in the right hand bar of my blog?

HOWEVER, either those eightysomething blogs became too much for the pipe or something else went wrong, but after a while it stopped functioning properly (in the Yahoo Pipes interface, it worked well enough, but as soon as I tried to view it in a feedreader or via bloglines, it didn't work anymore). Couldn't figure out why, so for the moment, I have split it into three separate pipes which function individually. I tried to aggregate those three pipes back into the original pipe, but it doesn't work properly; it only shows the posts from one of the three pipes. If anyone has any idea why that is, I'd be thrilled to know. (I'll retry feeding all blogs into a single pipe again once I have more time on my hands)

So for now, there are three little soapblogpipe widgets to the right.

Below: editing view of the (not-functioning) blog pipe which should aggregate the three new pipes

The Yahoo interface view of one of the three new soap blog pipes

Fremdseife

Went to a meeting with other soapmakers last winter. We had lots of fun sitting at a long table laden with soaps, creams, perfume oils and other soapmaking paraphernalia.

I had only recently started soapmaking, so I did not have much to show or give away, but the others gave me soaps like the one above, by "A und O Seifen". Jill from the Naturseifenforum also gave me a soap, a little hemispherical soapball dyed with lumigreen and named Dragon's Eye or something of the sort. Used it up pretty quickly because it smelled so good and stupidly forgot to take a picture first.

Other little presents included a lime shower gel with hemp made by Katharina (yummeeeee!), mango butter made by Hoedlgut, and Taralein gave me a nifty little soap bag which she made out of a shower puff and which is really neat and handy! No soapdropping, ever again. Have to try and make some of those myself some time.

Although I couldn't make it to the meeting this year, perhaps next time I will go and give away some of my soap for a change.