Where is the Yellow Brick Road?

Have you seen the movie "Oz the Great and Powerful"

I finally was able to sit down and watch it all in one sitting.  I love the special effects.  The colors are just amazing.  So bright!  Nice and colorful. 

Well I started thinking...well, why don't I make a "Wizard of Oz" theme soap...I will give me some practice for the new soap challenge I have signed up for: the "Holly Swirl" technique put together by Amy Warden from Great Cakes Soapworks.  Well  I certainly did not come close to it for sure.

I decided to do a nice green bar for the "emerald city", yellow for "the Yellow Brick Road", and Red for the "Field of Poppies".  I will tell you that I was pretty happy with my green.  It wasn't too bright and also not too dark.  Just the nice jewel tone I was going for.  Now the other two colors are a different story.

Take a look....It looks like some type of fireball! =0/

 

 

 

I used  the "swirl in the pot' technique for the yellow and red.  My soap ended up thickening up on me so I was not able to do the fluid swirls I was envisioning.  A pretty sloppy Yellow Brick Road for sure!

 

Then I started thinking ...well the Wicked Witch throws out fireballs...so at least the theme sort of worked :=0)

 

My other little dilemma was that I decided to gel this soap and in doing so I managed to squash down all my textured tops when I covered it.  I had some lovely tops with Mica Gold Swirls on top.  Imagine my dismay when I uncovered it and all I saw was a flat top with barely there mica.  =0/

 

 

In the end I was happy with my soap bars.  They are a little different and I like how the movie was able to inspire me and think out of the box to come up with a new soap theme. 

 

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HAPPY SOAPING!!!

Roxana