Spa Kit - kitchen crafts

Well how frustrating. First of all, when I first came to write this post I'd put a load of photos into posts, ready to write them up, then I sat down to write them up and Blogger had stolen them! Fine then Blogger, I'll just put them all back in, shall I? Don't you worry, I've got all the time in the world, unlike you, sitting around being a computer programme.  Then, last night, in the midst of Sew, Mama, Sew giveaway week giveaway entering, Blogger decided to disable my account and remove my blog!  I finally got it back, after several hours of panic and even a little dispair.  I'd scheduled this post to post Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon I come into the blog to have a look at something and guess what, it's only posted half my post, removing all my photos and just stopping halfway through!  Bloody great.  Doesn't Blogger know I'm meant to be at work right now, and, worse than that, I'm meant to be going out for a fag break?  Grrr.

I've done.

So, what was this post about? Ah, kitchen crafts. No, not cooking, I don't do cooking. I do do baking but I don't really blog about that. This is kitchen crafts of the beauty variety. I fancied trying something new (don't I always?!) and these seemed ideal additions to my spa kits (which are so close to being done!).

First up, handmade bath bombs.

In this picture they're just in food bags, I didn't dare take them out and take photos of them naked as I had a few issues with them.  As you can see, the blue ones are crumbling.  I found this really hard.  The recipe said to use the tiniest weeniest bit of water, but I couldn't get them to stick together and I think I ended up adding too much water. 

I wrapped them in a bit of cellaphane and tied them with a ribbon type thing I had.  Not the best packaging in the world, but to be honest, by this point I was sick of the damn things!  I don't think this is a craft I'll be repeating.

Next up was soap.  Not real cold-press soap, just melt and pour stuff.

Here they are.  Three colours and three different scents.  Some have flowers in them but they mainly ended up on the base.  The recipe said to leave the soap for 10 minutes to set, then stir in the flowers. Well they were set after 10minutes, completely set!  I must have done something wrong.

It was quite fun doing this, and I might do it again if people ask for them, but it was very quick and easy.  This could easily be done by children.  Or me. 

I just wrapped them in cellophane and added a bit of washi tape, you see, I'd overlooked something important.  I'm allergic to soap.  Yes, that's right, I'm allergic to soap so I decided to make... soap.  There's a word for people like me.  Yes, that's the one.  Anyway, by the time I got to this point, my hands were falling off in large chunks (bit overdramatic but you get the picture) and I didn't really want to touch them any more!

I just accidentally closed the window (on the computer, not in the office) and lost half of this post.  I'm about ready to jump out of that damn window, I tell you.  And to add to that, I've got a papercut that's as pathetic as they come but it hurts like hell.  Wow, such moaning and whining and whinging!  I've finished now, happy face is back, it's fag and coffee time and I've just had an email saying it's someone's birthday and there's cakes in the kitchen... Yippee!!!