Joy of making Mermaid soap

This holiday I wanted to make all these amazing gifts for friends and family......... But with a 10 month old baby boy achieving that goal was hard.

I was extremely frustrated with myself about this. I was trying so hard to understand why I can't accomplish more with Roarke like I did with his older brothers.  Well as you can guess, it started getting close to Dec 25th and I had 9 amazing gifts all in different stages of being finished but none finished like I want it or in time. Also each pregnancy and each child is their own experience and I just need to give myself time to find my parenting crafting rhythm. It is also hard breaking that inner dialog. 

Super hubby to the rescue! 

"Stop beating your self up" is the first thing he says and the second was my crafty Christmas saving. He says " Do what +Kathy Cano-Murillo taught you in her online class "crafty cash" that you have been quoting all week". Which was looking around your home and use what you got. A lot of time we think we have to run out to the store and get supplies, but if you are a crafter you always have this and that boxed up or hanging out in your craft space. Those this and thats can turn out to be amazing little gifts.

Just the little reminder (okay it was a big reminder) sent my mind into full speed and remembered the glycerin soap blocks I had left over from www.glorybee.com. Looking for the soap I found several bottles of essential oils, lavender flowers, vanilla bean specks and my mermaid latex molds. 

Woooohooo, now I was cooking! I didn't have special pots for doing this but I did have a box of old pots and pans waiting on their final destination. I also didn't have my mold holders but that didn't matter either since I had several big pieces of cardboard.

Mexirican ingenuity at again (according to hubby), since I didn't have full blocks just bits and pieces I mixed them together and got these amazing colors. (top right pic)

With my six mermaid molds I found I cranked out 10 sea green and 5 opaque sea foam green ones. These were so easy to make.

1. Cut soap block into small cubes and place in a stainless steel pot.

2. Place pot in a bigger pot that is filled with water. Water should be half way up the side of the pot. (Remember too much water and burner too high will cause the water to boil over)

3. Add color and essential oils ( too much oil soap will comes out greasy)

4. Place molds in cardboard cutouts. Make sure molds are secure or they will fall and spill when you pour the hot liquid soap.

5. Pour soap in molds. When solid (30 mins later) peel latex mold off and place mermaids on a rack to continue to settle for another 20 mins. I have noticed that soap will have condensation on them if you wrapp to soon.

6. Wrap and give out! 

Everyone loved their soap and couldn't believe that from start to finish it was only three hours.

Check out glory bee products and dazzle your family with custom bath and body products.

Thanks for stopping by and happy New Year. 

Always walk in Love and Light.

Stay Crafty!

Crafty Owl Mama⚡🐬

P.S Come back tomorrow to hear about my journey with @projectlife365.