Savon de Paris!

Admittedly, I have an English to French Dictionary which I use to suit my own desire to show my comprehension of the French language. I probably saw this phrase, savon de whatever, on the back of a bar of soap. When I made this Dish soap bottle, it was not about the accuracy of the language that made me label it this way. It was the love of all things French, and of these stamps which I had newly acquired. This was before I discovered how wonderful Stampin' Up!'s stamps were, but that is another blog. Check out The Daily Ink
if you would like to see more on that subject. Anyway, being the Martha afficionado that I am, I had already been using beautiful old bottles with pour spouts to bring joy to the laborious task of daily dish washing. The smell of wet peanut butter is a scent which one never forgets, especially while pregnant. So, I stamped this label, which I cut to size in StazOn black ink for permanence, added some clear VersaMark which I chalked over for the pale watermark background (which would not show up because of the flash), and ModPodged it to the bottle. This made it both water proof, and permanent. I love this bottle. As you can see, it is currently empty. That is because when I ran out of the clear dishwashing all natural soap I love to use, I could not tarnish it's purity with some inferior flourescent green garbage. So it waits. It gets it's picture taken, finally, for the blog. My sister-in-law has long awaited my promise to post it. So here it is. Go dump out that half-drunk bottle of soda, cut some card stock to size (even as a wrap-around if you like) and get stamping. Try the matte mod podge for a less shiny image. Then get in there and do some dishes. See if you don't smile a little bit at that spoon of wet slimy peanut butter. You like doing dishes now, because you look good doing them. Enjoy!