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I finally got my digital camera to work again, so I've finally got pictures!







The first 2 boxes were done with stamped tissue paper. The third was the first one I did, and I didn't have tissue paper, so it's covered in stamped napkin. Hey, it worked. The picture on that one is just a printed photo, and didn't run or smudge or anything. These were very cheap and easy, and made nice gift boxes to hold ....




Those are the only ones I have left. The others are on their way to my sister, my cousin and the exchange student that's living with my aunt. I obviously don't need to tell anyone how these were made. =)
In addition to these things for gifts, I also made gift baskets for my aunts. One was a basket with vanilla chai scneted bath salts and candles, and with little bags of chai, coffee and cocoa, biscotti and coffee spoons (Made using the mint Hershey kisses!) The other was a basket with honey scented soap, bath salts and candles, and a decoupaged votive holder, similar to this one, but in orange and yellow colors. I didn't take a picture before I packed it up.




My aunt wanted some of the honey scented stuff, because I'd made a basket of it for my cousin in May, for her birthday. That basket was filled with soap, bath salts, lip balm, bath oil and body powder. Again, the little cardboard boxes were my friend. I picked one up, along with black and yellow paints and some cheesy stencils, and decorated that basket.





I also stuck the yellow and brown candle from this bunch into my aunt's basket. The first candle in this picture was a failed experiment. I wanted to make one of those candles that has the potpourri embedded in the bottom, and it's there, but you cannot see it unless you flip the candle over. Oops. The next three are coffee, colored with coffee grounds, because I didn't have any dye to make a brown color at the time. The yellow and brown one and the two small blue ones are all honeysuckle, and the red and blue one at the end is sugar cookie. That was the first candle I ever made.




Finally, a bunch of soap.
The first one is grapefruit scented. I'd made a lot of the ones that resemble slices, but they fell apart. =\
The second is strawberry. It's not so bright in person, and more red than pink, but that's how the picture turned out. The green part has mint leaves in it, and the red part has strawberry seeds. I made this when I was first pregnant, and the smell made me so sick that I ended up cutting it up, putting it in a container and not looking at it since.
The third is nag champa. Pretty simple.
The fourth is a essential oil blend called relaxing. I love this one. It smells so nice (Spearminty!) and is really pretty.
The fifth is kind of a honey/honeysuckle blend with a little bit of wheat germ scent thrown in. It doesn't sound great, but it smells really, really good. The round soap on the left has ground loofah at the top, while the other two have wheat germ and oatmeal added.
The sixth is orange/vanilla. The top is purely orange while the bottom is a vanilla orange mix. The top also has orange peel suspended in it.
The seventh is an ocean theamed soap, with an energizing scent. Why it doesn't have an ocean scent is beyond me. It's got sea salt and seaweed in it and has an orange peppermint scent.
Finally. The eighth is probably the cutest soap I've ever made. It's cucumber melon scented, light green with little pink stars and glitter suspended in it.













Oh yeah. This is the "organized" part of the closet that holds all of this stuff.



Every one of those plastic boxes is full of soap or candles. There's a box full of soap molds on top, a shelf full of soap molds near the bottom, and I've still got a wooden mold in the living room. On the floor are the mass quantities of sea salt, cocoa butter, glycerine soap and sweet almond oil. Above that is a shelf of herbs and other additives. Above that are dyes. Above that is...random crap. Above that, more random crap and 2 shelves with mass amounts of stuff to make bath bombs and fizzy salts. I've got bags of powdered milk in the living room for milk bath (which should be in the closet, I guess.) There's a shelf of scrapbook stuff, and the rest is cluttering up the living room (Man, how does my husband live with me?) and a shelf of random containers. There's also a bunch of random crap here and there. You also can't see the fucking huge rubbermaid boxes full of stuff that are stacked up behind me in the closet. Eep. Please tell me that I'm not the only one that is this disorganized.