The past few weeks i've been starting to do my crafting for Christmas.
I have decided to make lovely hampers for all my family - save on the pennies and give them some gorgeous handcrafted goodies.
I started off last week with some soap making. Bit of an experiment for me, something new i've never done before. It also takes 6 weeks for the soap to be ready, so wont find out till then how it has turned out!!
found instructions for it here:
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I made 5 types of soap:
Lavender - with real buds of lavender in it and lavender essential oil
Orange and christmas spice - For the orange in the stocking!
Candy cane - sweet minty smelling
Christmas fairy - sweet smelling, pink and glittery
Frosty - a more masculine soap, with frosty mint and cedarwood tones
So, in 5 weeks i will be able to cut it up and wrap it ready for christmas. Already in one week, the colour has changed, and it's now much firmer ( the first few days were a worry as it didnt seem to be firming up very quickly!) - and its smelling great too which is excellent.
So this week was the turn of the Food - things that needed made in advance - Christmas cake, green tomato chutney, and spiced pickled beetroot. Both the beetroot and green tomatoes had been picked fresh from the garden that morning.
And the kitchen smelt wonderful - extremely christmassy spicy scents everywhere!!!
The jars all ready to add labels to, and the cake ready to be fed with booze every week - it'll be amazing by the time it gets to christmas!!!
bye for now
Fairy x
