Persnickety Pelican…Dream in Whimsy

SQ: Where do you get your whimsical inspiration?

T&P: Our whimsical inspiration just seems to be there at all times.  We have 2 mini doxes and they are so sweet and energetic that we try to capture them in our designs.  We don’t sketch anything out, just sit in front of a soap we have needle felted with wool roving, and looking at all the marvelous colors of wool, come up with our designs. The more whimsical the better.  We create what we like to see in our shop, and hope that our customers love it as much as we do.

T&P:Our felted soaps can take anywhere from an hour to two hours to completely felt. We can’t keep too many in stock on our shop, but try to get new ones on when we can.  We also do custom orders and love to come up with new ideas. We use the dry needle felting process.  The needle is a special one with barbs on the end, (very sharp) and when poked through the wool roving onto the soap meshes together to create the design.  This allows the design to remain on the soap and just shrinks up as the soap is used.  A felted soap will last a lot longer than a naked one.

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