A few of the amazing Creative Live team members, the live studio audience and Courtney of Handmade Beauty Box. Such an amazing group!
On Thursday, I taught a class on Creative Live. It was such an amazing experience; I’m still on cloud nine! If you’re unfamiliar with Creative Live, it’s a website with high-quality workshops on a wide variety of topics including design, music, crafts and photography. My class focused on bath and beauty projects, including cold process soap, scrubs lotion and more. Click here to purchase the class and see all 25 lessons. I demonstrated lots of projects. You can find all the kits for the recipes here.
My A-Team: Courtney (far left), myself and Haley. These girls really rocked the entire setup!
To start the day, my team and I got to the Creative Live studio bright and early to set up. Below, you can see a very small amount of the prep work that went into making this class happen. A huge shout-out to Courtney who measured and packed every little ingredient and tool. In addition, I wouldn’t have made it through the day with Haley, who was there to help in any way necessary. You guys are awesome!
So much prep work went into the Creative Live class.
The first lesson was all about cold process soap. I went over several topics, including the science of soaping, tools needed and lye safety. I created a lavender cold process soap, you can find the kit for that project here. Making cold process soap live on camera is always a little nerve wracking, but luckily everything went off without a hitch.
Below is the beautiful Creative Live studio after the cold process soap demonstration. Between each project, the team hurried in to help clean and get ready for the next class. I was so impressed with the Creative Live team. They were friendly, energetic, organized and helpful. It’s clear they love their jobs.
One of the classes was all about scrubs: why to use them, what grain size works for different types of scrubs, the different types of salts and more. Some of the other projects I demonstrated included a walnut scrub, shaving soap and emulsified salt scrub. In addition to the recipe, the Creative Live team made sure that class included substantial information about each project. This includes what kind of preservatives to use in scrubs and lotion, what ingredients are best and labeling information.
Top left, clockwise: Walnut scrub, shaving soap, emulsified salt scrub
One of my favorite parts was meeting with the live studio audience. It was a small group of six women who had so many amazing questions and, quite the attention span. The day was loooonnnng. Below is Vanessa who came all the way from Australia with gifts for me and the kiddos (awwwww)! Thanks Vanessa, it was great to meet you! =) I was glad to have the opportunity to sign books for them and answer their questions off-air as well.
The live studio audience members are amazing ladies. They all had such great questions and were so excited to learn!
Thank you to everybody who watched the live broadcast; there were so many interesting questions that came in. Below is an amazing wall in the Creative Live studio that really summed up the experience, “Today was a good day.” It was a great day. #bestdayever I hope I get to do it all over again! =)
Hi Dear Anne.. I wished that brought this topic lesson and learn the profession. And allow me the opportunity to travel and study with you how much I hope so . Greetings
Hi there!
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the blog. If you ever have questions we are happy to help!
-Amanda with Bramble Berry
Great job, Anne-Marie! I would imagine being on camera for a full day was exhausting, but thrilling 🙂
Oh my goodness, Lori. You, of all people, know how difficult it is to project energy and keep your thoughts straight for so much time =) I was both exhausted but on a bit of a high after it was all done. My team really was the star of the day; they kept everything going, kept me hydrated and propped up my spirits. The Creative Live team was also a rallying supportive help throughout the day; really, it takes a village. Thank you for your compliment. It means so much coming from you; I’m a fan! =)
I purchased this class based solely on how delighted I have been with Anne Marie’s books, blogs, and the terrific Bramble Berry products and support! I can’t wait to go through the lessons! I also signed up for another class on Creative Live at the same time: Fast Starting a Beauty Product business and it was very helpful. They provided a special one-time offer to allow one friend to share the classes and so I shared with a friend who has been wanting to learn about scrubs! I’ve been telling her for months she needs to get over to Bramble Berry and Soap Queen so she can jump start learning. Hopefully this will be just the thing to encourage her to give scrubs a try. Thanks again for your wonderful commitment to sharing and teaching others. So appreciated!
Wow, that is quite a compliment Sherry. Thank you (!!!). I am so happy that you like the blogs, books and all the goodies at Bramble Berry. I agree, our team in customer service is tops; they are a wealth of knowledge =)
I hope that you and your friend both enjoy the class – and she dives into scrubs. There are lots of options in the Creative Live class for scrub exploration =)
Thank you for your support. It is awesome!
Hi! I really wanted to attend this class but I have work. Would it be possible to have the class on the weekend?
Thank you!
We’ll definitely keep that in mind for future classes Sarah! You can also purchase the class and watch it whenever you like here: https://www.creativelive.com/courses/make-your-own-bath-body-products-anne-marie-faiola
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
I watched the Creative live workshop and bought it as well. I was so excited about some of the products you made that I did the balm and the whipped butter with grapefruit . I have a question about the whipped butter. Imloventhe feel of it but after 3 days some of the oil started to separate on the bottom from the rest. Can you perhaps shed some light on why and offer some possible solutions to keep that from occurring? I want to offer a whipped butter but need to know how to prevent that .Thanks! Do more live workshops it was awesome!
Hi Lynn!
Thank you so much for watching the workshop, it means a lot to us!
As for the oil, I’m not entirely sure why that is separating. In our test batches we found it stayed together nicely. Is it fairly hot where you are? I’m wondering if the butter may be melting slightly. Let me know and we’ll get this figured out. 🙂
Whipped Avocado Butter: https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/lotion/how-to-make-whipped-body-butter-on-soap-queen-tv/
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
I love the fact that all of the sayings on the wall at the Creative Live studio are from rap songs. From Ice Cube to the Beastie Boys. Very on fleek.
Oh that is awesome, I didn’t realize that until now! Such a fun decoration. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
The class that Anne Marie put on about making your own bath and body products was so great. I learned so very much from each of these classes. Yes I watched everyone. If I could give more than 10 stars I would. Cannot wait for another one of her classes. Creative live did a great job. Wanted to buy the on demand access class for $29.00 but for some reason I kept getting error messages. Creative live kept in contact with me with this problem but was unable to call me and get order over the phone. I would love to get this so if there is anyway I can do this over the phone with you it would be greatly appreciated. Again I just want everyone to know how great a teacher Anne Marie is. She makes you feel like she is teaching you privately. Thank you for the free class.
Hi Donna!
Thank you so much for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed the live class. 🙂
The class isn’t sold by Bramble Berry, it is only available on Creative Live. I would recommend contacting them to purchase it! You can contact them here: https://www.creativelive.com/content/contact
They should be able to help you out. 🙂
-Kelsey with Bramble Berry
Creative Live Class: https://www.creativelive.com/courses/make-your-own-bath-body-products-anne-marie-faiola