Someone had the idea of taking a taxidermied animal and put onto a remote controlled helicopter, plane, or drone. Bart Jenson decided to give his beloved housecat a second life by making “Orville” into a quadcopter after the kitty’s passing. Check out video and read more about this odd hobby craft by clicking here:: 4 Taxidermy Drones: Yes, That’s a Thing
Monthly Archives: April 2015
A Wondrous Dreamy Cold Process Soap
You can make a lovely multi-colored soap inspired by princess stories and magic. Using avocado butter, coconut oil, palm oil, and bubble gum colorant, you can make some lovely cold process soap that little girls will love. It makes the perfect gift for little ladies and for soap shop customers to buy for their little princesses. Get the full recipe here:: Once Upon a Dream Cold Process Tutorial
Stop Your Soap Business From Washing Away Free Time
Owning and running your online soap shop can be time consuming. You have to make the soap, fulfill orders, ship orders, manage your shop’s social media, and much more. It can easily eat away at any free time you have for yourself if you let it.
That doesn’t have to be the case, though. By respecting your time and making a routine schedule focusing on the top priorities, you’ll be able cut off any unnecessary steps. Start with the stuff that is making your money and work your way down to the side, fringe parts of your business. You’ll be able to manage your time better and not feel overwhelmed. For a full article about business time management, click here:: How to Stop Your Business From Sucking Up All Your Time
Celebrate Spring with a Tulip Wreath
Prepare your home for the upcoming spring sun by donning a tulip wreath to your door! It’s easy to make a quality welcoming wreath by using two bunches of artificial tulips, a grapevine wreath, and a glue gun. Make the sunny door decoration by following this tutorial:: Simple Tulip Wreath Tutorial
Lip Gloss with the Sweetness of Black Cherry
You can treat your dry lips with a sweet black cherry taste. Make your own black cherry lip gloss at home using lip balm base, alkanet root powder, and cherry kiss flavor oil. It makes a fine lip gloss for you or the lips of your soap shop customers. Get the full recipe here:: Recipe: Black Cherry Kiss Tinted Lip Gloss
Soap Ingredient Showcase: Cocoa Butter
A common ingredient in most soap recipes is lovely cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is a hard vegetable fat that have a chocolate-y aroma that is extracted from the cocoa bean. So why is it that cocoa butter is used in so many soaps?
Cocoa butter is your skin’s best friend. It’s properties make an excellent moisturizer to skin. It makes a fine ingredient in not only soaps, but in body butters, facial creams, foot creams, and lip balms to moisturize dry, damaged skin quickly. That’s what makes it a great addition to many soap recipes. For a full article on the wonders of cocoa butter, click here:: Sunday Night Spotlight: Cocoa Butter
Tools Every Crafter Should Have
If you sew, make soap, draw, or sculpt, there are a number of specialized tools to choose from. However, there are some tools that every crafter should have in their home. Tweezers can help make intricate paper crafts and help insert rhinestones into clothing or jewels. Sharpie markers can help scrapbooking, taking notes, or marking measurements on fabric. For a full list of crafter must-haves, click here:: 10 Tools Every Crafter Should Own
Create a Quality Carrot Clay Mask
Tone and detoxify your maturing skin by making a carrot and rosehip oil clay mask. The rosehip seed oil is known for its anti-aging properties in skin care and carrot seed essential oil can rejuvenate skin and remove wrinkles. It can easily be made at home for yourself or your craft soap shop customers. Get the full recipe here:: Natural Carrot and Rosehip Clay Mask Recipe
Converting Soap Recipes for Bigger Batches
When you are making soap as a hobby, following the recipe is easy. However, when you are making soaps for your soap shop you’ll need to make larger batches in order to efficiently meet your demand. In order to do so, you’ll have to alter the soap recipe measurements, which can be tricky at times.
It’s important to know how much your soap mold can hold. It’s also important to measure out the oil ratio with water and how much lye in order for them to properly mix. If done incorrectly, too much oil can prevent the soap from hardening and too much lye can be harmful to skin. For a full guide on how to resize and covert soap recipes into bigger batches, please click here:: Resizing and Converting Soap Recipes
Make an Essential Oil That Embodies Spring
You can make an essential oil that adds a spring-like scent to soaps or room sprays quickly and easily. Using lemongrass, lavender, and ginger essential oils you’ll be able to add a spring day scent to almost any soap product. Get the full recipe by clicking here:: DIY: Purely Spring Essential Oil Blend Recipe