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happy holidays already?!!!!?

Hey there soapy soldiers!

Sorry to have been flying under the radar, we've been super busy and super creative of late.  Lots of new stuff and suddenly there are more freaking holidays.  How the H-E-double-hockey-sticks did that happen?

We've got a new name bubbling under in the works, something for this soapy venture that was only supposed to be a part of what dugshop does.  We've been lax in that department, and I don't mean the airport.

And hey, did someone mention holidays?  We've got St Pat's:

A little bit o' Easter:

We're working on Mother's Day.

But of course, our favorite geek holiday, which starts in less than an hour - Pi Day.  So, we've opened P's House Of Pi, and we've got a fabulous set that will be ON SALE straight through Wednesday.

They each smell like a different fruit or cream pie.  Yum to the 3rd power.

The website isn't updated with this, but you can find the stuff in our Etsy shop.

There's more, but that's all for now.

y'know....

I'm a pretty tolerant person, most of the time, and I do my best to remain level-headed and back away from the swears on this blog.  But having some bizarre right-wing blog talking about our Hope on a Rope soap as some sort of sex toy, and that neo-Nazi site mentioning the soap in a totally abhorrent way...

What kind of sick fucks are you?  Jeeez.  Leave it to those who are every interpretation of the word perverted to say stuff that can shock even me.

Yuck.  I'm going to go take a shower.  With my soap.  Which I am only intending to WASH with.

more stuff!

Crikey.  So of course there are more fun things that I made but forgot about, and even still more things I made and even forgot to photograph.  Welcome to my world.

Our cute Bettie Xmas soap.

Our gold brick soap, 24K Suds...
 
A couple of soaps from new molds we've made, a rose-scented heart and a green tea/oatmeal/clay facial bar.  Great lather and great for my skin!

Some more foaming bath whips:

Tangerine Gleam - yummy tangerine scent

Erin Go Bath - our chocolate mint scrub, with little jojoba beads!

And our cute chocolate cupcake bath fizzies.  Still waiting for the boxes!

ow

Tendonitis has kept me from doing much in the way of blogging (or soaping, for that matter), but I sure do miss it.

Hit the lab today for the first time in a while, just to decant the Valentine perfume mixture I've had melding for a while.  It's called "Love You, Mean It" and it smells gorgeous.  Blood orange, pink pepper, vanilla, and a couple of other lush ingredients to make it loving, but not too sappy.

And the bottles are coolass:

The fancy bottle is REALLY coolass:

I'm wearing this fragrance right now, and I just want to jump my own bones.

I also put some sweet raspberry Valentine cupcake bath bombs together, but we got a mis-delivery of our cupcake boxes, so I'm waiting for the whole package to be able to put 'em together for selling.

We also made a few Valentine gift baskets, one for traditionalists:

And another for the less traditional type:

Yeah, it's been a slow week, all right.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

yumping yiminy

Looks like the right-wingers, as usual, have come a bit late to the party.  Of a sudden, mucho conservative blathering on about our Obama Hope on a Rope soap.  As Bruce Willis said in Die Hard, welcome to the party, pal.  Despite the fact that all y'all are discovering it, ohhhhhhhhh, nine months after its debut (hey, our soap is on the same schedule as Bristol Palin's recently-birthed bun in the oven, zounds!  we swear Levi whatsizbucket had nothing to do with our sudsy progeny), we have been noticed already, and called worse by better, thanks ever so.  Move along, nothing to see here.

Hugely amusing, though, reading the comments of those folks who, of necessity, laugh at their own jokes (someone's got to!).  Yeah, Dope on a Rope.  We already got one of them, it's our current Fearless Leader, and yeah, that soap's been around even longer than our Obama soap. 

I'm starting to think that an Al Franken soap would get their knickers in a twist.  Hmmmmmm.

3 big HOs

Thanks to all we know, who know us!  It's been a helluva year.  We loves ya!

holy crap redux

So, another mention today, on CNN again, Anderson Cooper's show.  They included us in a little piece about people capitalizing on Obama-mania, and of course we're happy for the mention, but all due respect to CNN, we've always given a third of the profits for this soap to a good cause, first toward Obama's campaign, and after the election, we're giving that third to Habitat for Humanity.

I dunno, I'm just a little burned to be included amongst inauguration ticket scalpers and total mercenaries like that.  Sigh.  Still, at least that little swipe means that Habitat gets mo' money.  And, yeah, us too, but it still doesn't mean that Sarah can give up her day job yet.

Double sigh.

Thanks for supporting small businesses run by chicks!

holy crap

Sitting here with Barney Frank's dulcet tones in the background, we're shellshocked still from the double-barreled mitzvah of the Washington Post and CNN yesteday. 

Don't worry; we'll be getting right back to making your Obamas!

Working on the website, trying to update the doggone thing with all kinds of new fun products, the ones mentioned in our Nov 1 blogentry, as well as yet more that we've conceived of and perfected since.  We love our jobs!!  But, of course, website dev has been put on hold for the next week or so, till we catch up on our Hope on a Rope orders.  We still hope to have the extra added goodies up just after Thanksgiving, with more than enough time for your holiday gift-giving!

For right now, we'd better get back to the workshop.  We loves ya!

we love you, President-Elect Obama

Sarah and I and four other dedicated souls worked a polling station yesterday, so I'm feeling a little tired and achy today.

I just wanted to say, we love you, Barack.  You're gonna have a tough row to hoe, but we've got your back.

All profits on sales of our Hope on a Rope soap will now go to The Carter Center or any other nonprofit organizations that need attention.

Thanks to all of our customers.  Really.  I'll work out an across-the-board euphoria discount soon, but now I'm going back to sleep for a bit...

dia de los frantic

I sure do wish I could post here more than I do, but it really has been a little on the crazy side here lately.  We did a major reorganization of our workspace - more shelves and thinking about a whole mess of drawers for the whole mess of molds we have.  I can't believe how many molds we have, but then again, looking at our stock, I guess I can believe it.

We're doing a big Dia De Los Muertos festival tomorrow, and we actually managed not to be working into the wee hours the night before the show, unlike the Abbot Kinney Festival we did back in September.  So, a bit of a breather to update all y'all.

Election Day's around the corner.  Please, vote.  We're anxious.  We can't sleep.

This day's post, and quite rightly so, will have lots of skulls n stuff in it.

A few of our Dia Del Jabon soap on a rope heads

Our smaller Fiesta De Los Bubbles bath soaps.

Our super-awesome Loteria soaps.

Our bath salts in the yummy Calaveras scent.

Our black skulls hand-painted with UV-reactive neon colors!  And check this out:

Amazing for parties - put a black light in your bathroom and this skull will glow its, uh, head off.

Our Blood Bath red bubble bath, dragon's blood scent.

Our black blood-red coffin soap.

And a serious bunch of glow-in-the-dark horror movie still soaps.  Too too many, so here's a small sampling.

Love these.

And with good reason, we're also feeling rather political of late.

And if that wasn't enough, we've been keeping busy with these random items:

A soapy bagel.  Smells like the real thing!

A cowboy boot.  Doesn't smell like the real thing.

Our Life's A Beach whipped body wash.  Smells like the beach!

Peace, Love and Happiness.

Fire! 

Snake!  Actually, this is the snake not quite finished.

Our holiday light bulb soaps - this year they're 3D!!!

So.  Whew.  All this since the last time I posted.  Seriously!  And there's more, but I either have crap photos or no photos of that stuff, so, another time.

I'll close with my latest soapy artwork, not for sale, but we wanted to make as much of our Dia De Los Muertos altar out of soap as we could.  Photos of my mom and Doug for the altar:

Aside from the photo, which is water soluble paper, the rest of the "frame" and "glass" -- all soap.

And....they glow.  Bonus!