Where Have I Been? Making Geeky Geek Soap, of course. GEEKSOAP!

As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s been somewhat quiet around here on my gaming blog. Partly because I don’t currently have any subscriptions running, but mostly because I’ve been busy with my RL small business of making geeky geek soap… GEEKSOAP! I’ve just been too busy making geek soap for the nerdy masses over at http://www.geeksoap.net to keep gaming subscriptions active. Literally, I’ve been swamped with orders and my entire house has turned into a soap studio. It’s fantastic! I love creating geeky soap. :) Let’s see… combining my geek side and my creative side? EPIC WIN!

So what are my newest soaps? The Game Cartridge GEEKSOAP line… 100% solid handmade soap made from all natural ingredients in the shape of retro game cartridges. So far I have an 8-bit, 16-bit, and 64-bit soap version (as well as a Handheld variety) and coming later this weekend or early next week are parody replica soaps in the shape of old school Atari 2600 rom cartridges and 16-bit SGenesis carts. My Game Cartridge geek soaps have been plastered all over the Internet this past week and featured and re-featured in more places than I can keep count of.  I’ve given two phone interviews (with a third scheduled) and just sent off a big batch of soap to the UK to be in a magazine photoshoot. It’s been amazing! In August my husband and I will be manning a small table in the Art Gallery of GEN CON – the biggest and best 4 days of gaming! We only have a small table, but based on GEEKSOAP’s popularity at shows when people see these soaps in person, we don’t need much space to do well: the soaps sell themselves and we’ll have lots of stock to keep the table full of geek soap goodness over the 4 days.

Another popular soap of mine that was featured in a bazillion places about a month ago is my D20 Soap on a Rope geek soap. Is this seriously cool or what? You can play a little D&D in the shower and roll critical hits against bad body odor at the same time! Your party members will thank you. And if you love the sweet little flat-bottomed dice bag you see pictured with my soap in the photo, you can snag one over at Dragon Chow Dice Bags by my friend @GeekyLyndsay - she makes amazing dice bags that are incredibly cute and practical in a wide variety of fun fabrics to suit anyone’s taste, and/or coordinate with any dice set. Want to see more pics? Head over to my portfolio. This mold (like the Game Cartridge soaps) was all designed and created by me, so you can be sure it’s 100% original, too.

Both Lucas and I are itching to get back into some gaming, but I’m just not sure what yet. I’d love to spend my upcoming summer break making soap and gaming (bliss!) but I need suggestions… as I’ve mentioned before after playing the STO beta, I don’t know if linear is the way I want to go. SWG is (has been for awhile) dying and as much as I love the open-endedness, I need more action and adventure in a new environment. I’ve played WoW foreeeeeeeeeeever, and while I do end up going back often, I really want something new. I don’t see myself going back to Aion, but perhaps I’ll get back into EVE for a bit while I search for that something new. Who knows.  Until then, it’ll probably continue to be quiet here while I make geeky soap. You can stay up with what’s going on by following me on Twitter @geeksoap and my blog over at thepinktoque.com – where I update about my crafty geek endeavors and release new geek soap designs for GEEKSOAP.  Want to fan Pink Toque / GEEKSOAP on Facebook? Check out the fan page here – Twitter and FB fans are the first to know about upcoming sales, giveaways & contests, and new soap designs as they are released. I love to give away geeky soap to readers & followers regularly :)

That’s about it for the gaming blog today – hope to see you on Twitter or over at geeksoap.net soon! <3