*BRAND NEW*
Melt & Pour Soap: Cute "Candy" Confections

Come join Debbie Chialtas of Soapylove for brand-new glycerin soap projects! Debbie is our Melt & Pour Soap expert from Southern California, and she's constantly coming up with beautiful & innovative ways to use Melt & Pour soap. She's taught at The Nova Studio for years, each time encouraging & inspiring her students. Debbie is also the author of a book called SoapyLove: Squeaky Clean Projects using Melt & Pour Soap, a beautiful book full of color tutorials that allows readers to replicate the amazing results Debbie is known for. Come to this brand-new Melt & Pour soap crafting class to feed your creative desires, and pick up a signed copy of her book while you're here!

Use fun & easy glycerin soap to create incredibly adorable soaps! We'll use a variety of molds, supplies, & techniques to achieve 3 distinctive looks. all inspired by our favorite food - sweets!

The projects to be covered are:

1) Princess Soapy Pop: Make a soap fit for the princess in your life! Scented like angel food cake & gleaming with pearly mica, it's also speckled with confetti colored jojoba beads. We'll learn about how to use mica & suspend exfoliants in this pretty project.

2) Confetti Sprinkles Bar Soap: Use a very unconventional tool to quickly pop out hundreds of these adorable sprinkles and embed them in the top of this cute soap. We'll cover using tray molds & cutters to make bars of any shape.

3) Frozen Friends Soaps: Have you ever used paper that dissolved in soap? It's so cool & fun! We'll make these happy little bars that feature this awesome and versatile materials, which lasts much longer than you might think!

Each student will take home detailed handouts explaining the techniques used in the class to make each product and 2 Princess Pops, 3 Confetti Sprinkles Bars, & 2 Frozen Friends Soaps, all packaged & ready to give or use. Note: Debbie uses cosmetic-grade, skin-safe Fragrance Oils in her classes.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
Since this teacher is flying in from out of town, the CANCELLATION POLICY is as follows: If you need to cancel *for any reason* let us know as soon as possible both by phone and by email. If you give us more than 60 days notice, you'll receive a refund of your original payment minus a 25% cancellation fee. If you give us between 30 - 59 days notice, you will receive a refund of your payment minus a 50% cancellation fee. There will be no refunds OR future credit (for any reason) with less 30 days notice of cancellation. If you cannot make the workshop, you have the option of sending someone else in your place, just notify us by the day of the class.

ABOUT THE TEACHER:
Debbie Chialtas is a self taught melt & pour soap artist who has been feverishly making soaps since 2005. Her business, Soapylove, is famous for its unique Soapy Pops which have appeared in Glamour, People, Cosmogirl, and other magazines around the world. Debbie was a guest on the DIY Network's Craft Lab and is the author of “Soapylove: Squeaky Clean Projects Using Melt and Pour Soap” [which we proudly sell signed copies at the Nova Studio!]. She is also a mother of 2 and lives with her husband in San Diego. We are thrilled to have her as a "Guest Instructor" flying up from San Diego when her schedule allows to teach classes here at The Nova Studio. See our teacher page to view Debbie's current classes.