I like to use dried Calendula and Bachelor Buttons as toppings for some handmade soap bars or soap logs.  They are pretty dried up and tossed either in the handmade soap or on top of the logs.   There is something very eye catching when displaying a row of handmade soap logs with sprinkles of blue and yellow petals on top of them.  I just think they look gorgeous all in a row.  Each year we grow both Calendula and the blue Bachelor Buttons in the garden.  I pick the flower heads, dry them in the soap curing room and save them for the next years handmade soaps.   This year it is a bit tough as the weather has been really cold and wet so the plants haven’t done that great.  I’ll harvest what I am able to and plan for a better flower busting garden next year.

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We have two of the new handmade soap displays finished.  Yippee!  Only two more to go.  Now the really hard work begins in figuring out what colors to use in the sales booth to make our handmade soaps visually appealing.  I do think that the new displays make the handmade soap bars pop and couldn’t be more pleased with them.   A version using less expensive wood than black walnut might even work for wholesale soap displays too.   What’s really sweet here is that some of the slats made from black walnut were reused from pallets that my husband found at work.  He scooped those up quick! 

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