My fire/lava side looks rather garish this morning, I am forced to admit. Perhaps a bit too much mica but I am hoping it will calm a touch with some heat.

I flipped it, so my ugly layer is inside; my apologies to whomever uses this soap because your last impression of it will be the use of my crappy color combo. Maybe they will like it for all I know because we are, of course, our own worst critics. I poured my water side and seriously, I must take a moment to curse soap and all it stands for. I waited and waited with my colors FOREVER until they just started to trace and then without notice or warning, my dark blue went to glop while I was pouring. It started coming out in chunks but there was nothing to be done but keep pouring. Hating to waste any batter, I pushed the last blob out in the corner and it looks pretty, well, blobby and uninteresting. It takes away from the overall effect but that will be cut onto a single bar, so I mustn't forget that I can essentially hide my shame.

My first layer was poured several days ago, my fire layer yesterday and water today, so it is currently in the oven at 170 for an hour to get the layers to adhere to the oldest one. Perhaps heat will get my fire to cool a bit.

Good lord, I haven't made any soap for months and months, not since my last post. I lost my mojo and had no desire whatever to make a single batch. I made a layer underneath this one that I hate because I chose the wrong colors so I reverted back to form and went for fire colors, some of my favorites. I was hoping for a lava look but was not thoughtful about my pour, at all, because I haven't made any soap for months and months and apparently no longer know how to think through the process of getting from A to B, but I always love fire, so this will do. I will try water as the next layer and see where I go.