JBeanBunny
royal purple pigment
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2011
57 days until we set sail, 58 days until we get hitched! I've submitted my paperwork (a little bit under the wire!) and HOPEFULLY I can keep myself together and composed! It's crunch time and I'm feeling the pressure! So much to do, so little time! I got a few days off mid-august to fly 'back home' to Chicagoland for several items of business... Perm hair, Color hair, Final Dress Fittings, Pick up dress and fly it to Florida! Also on the agenda is a bridal shower! My mom is putting it together with the ladies at her church, and my BFF/MOH is flying in to share that chaotic and busy few days with me! I hope she keeps me sane!
I have so many unfinished projects that I need to get done! I have to finish decorating my favor bags, I need to finish making and packaging soaps for all of my guests (insert Fight Club joke here), I need to finish making and packaging bath salts (inset zombie joke here), I have to make small Mickey flower Pomander wands for the flower girls, I have to spray paint and decorate flower girls' petal baskets, I need to make tags for each bag complete with guest names and room numbers, I need to make door magnets- one for each room AND one for each guest... I also have to arrange for bus transportation and go tux shopping with Michael, I need to go tanning (I know, fake-baking is BAD, but I normally shy away from the sun and I just don't trust spray tans!) I need to see if I can arrange and afford a boudoir shoot... Oh gosh, I'm sure I'm missing a zillion other little things that need to get done!
It doesn't help that just last month one of my roommates up and left without a replacement, and now the other roommate is deserting us too! So now instead of $320 rent, we're going to have to shell out $950/month that we're just not prepared to be paying! All of those funds were SUPPOSED to be going towards the wedding and related expenses! I'm freaking out a little... okay, A LOT! I need people to fill my rooms so we can continue living! I don't know what to dooooo!
Okay, so at the moment I'm TRYING to spend all of my spare time getting little projects done. Yesterday I made 10 soaps and packaged them today. Yesterday I also made all 50 bath salts!! Except that a couple hours later they'd absorbed so much of the florida humidity that they turned into a solid brick! I got a few suggestions from my soap supplier and THANK GOD, I think the project is salvageable! Today I dug out all of the pink salts into a mixing bowl and broke up all the chunks (as best I could) then I baked the entire mixture on a cookie sheet at 250 for 15 minutes to dry them out, THEN I added a handful of uncooked rice to help keep the salt dry. After I put them back in their cute little 2 oz jars, I wrapped saran wrap around them and shank them with a heat gun. I do NOT want ANY moisture to ruin them again! Unfortunately, this is a huge undertaking and I still have more than 2/3 left of them left to go! On the bright side, I used some of the bath salts today in a HOT steamy bath, and it felt amazing and calmed me a bit. Here's hoping that something as simple as listening to music while soaking in a hot bath can keep me calm over the next several weeks!!
Here's the bath salts. The pink one is fragranced with Exotic Fruit Smoothie and Sun Ripened Raspberry. The purple one is Sheer Freesia with Raspberry Violet. The Blue one is called Salty Mariner and is such an amazing ocean-y scent! I'm reserving the blue for the men, though I have a feeling most of them would give them away!
I finished my pixie dust!! I know some of my readers have long awaited this one! My problem was that a fellow bride friend of mine promised me a sheet of the hershey kiss stickers that you can personalize, BUT she moved away and it got packed, blah blah blah. I finally sucked it up and bought a pack myself, even though it came with 400+ stickers and I only have 30 pixie dust vials! Anywho, Enjoy.
and just for giggles, here's a few more soaps I made. The Green swirl is Wasabi and Moroccan Mint, The Pink/Dark Purple is Sun Ripened Raspberry and Violet, and the pink embedded Mickey soap is scented with Passionfruit Papaya and Lychee Red Tea... OMG, it smells AMAZING!!!
And another DIS member asked about starfish soap on the DCL Brides thread... I took a whack at it and made some 'starfish in sand' soap. It was pretty tricky getting a sandy color, to be honest! I don't have any brown colorants to tone down yellow! They could've turned out better, but it always takes some trials and errors to get it perfect! Here's a couple photos of those in case she ever wanders onto my page! (I would love to make and sell soaps or bath salts as wedding favors! I would love a way to craft for a living, if only I could figure out how!) I apologize for the horrible night-time lighting in these photos. Apparently my light bulbs are very yellow-y!
Well, wish me luck! I'm hoping to keep the hair-pulling and nail biting and sleeplessness at a minimum. Just yesterday I was super-bummed about my salt project gumming up and it put me into a REAL funk all night. Michael does his best to cheer me up, and that's why I love him! (He also knows when to just shut up and love me from afar! hahahahaha!) Ahh, wish me sanity, because I'm surely going to need it!
I have so many unfinished projects that I need to get done! I have to finish decorating my favor bags, I need to finish making and packaging soaps for all of my guests (insert Fight Club joke here), I need to finish making and packaging bath salts (inset zombie joke here), I have to make small Mickey flower Pomander wands for the flower girls, I have to spray paint and decorate flower girls' petal baskets, I need to make tags for each bag complete with guest names and room numbers, I need to make door magnets- one for each room AND one for each guest... I also have to arrange for bus transportation and go tux shopping with Michael, I need to go tanning (I know, fake-baking is BAD, but I normally shy away from the sun and I just don't trust spray tans!) I need to see if I can arrange and afford a boudoir shoot... Oh gosh, I'm sure I'm missing a zillion other little things that need to get done!
It doesn't help that just last month one of my roommates up and left without a replacement, and now the other roommate is deserting us too! So now instead of $320 rent, we're going to have to shell out $950/month that we're just not prepared to be paying! All of those funds were SUPPOSED to be going towards the wedding and related expenses! I'm freaking out a little... okay, A LOT! I need people to fill my rooms so we can continue living! I don't know what to dooooo!
Okay, so at the moment I'm TRYING to spend all of my spare time getting little projects done. Yesterday I made 10 soaps and packaged them today. Yesterday I also made all 50 bath salts!! Except that a couple hours later they'd absorbed so much of the florida humidity that they turned into a solid brick! I got a few suggestions from my soap supplier and THANK GOD, I think the project is salvageable! Today I dug out all of the pink salts into a mixing bowl and broke up all the chunks (as best I could) then I baked the entire mixture on a cookie sheet at 250 for 15 minutes to dry them out, THEN I added a handful of uncooked rice to help keep the salt dry. After I put them back in their cute little 2 oz jars, I wrapped saran wrap around them and shank them with a heat gun. I do NOT want ANY moisture to ruin them again! Unfortunately, this is a huge undertaking and I still have more than 2/3 left of them left to go! On the bright side, I used some of the bath salts today in a HOT steamy bath, and it felt amazing and calmed me a bit. Here's hoping that something as simple as listening to music while soaking in a hot bath can keep me calm over the next several weeks!!
Here's the bath salts. The pink one is fragranced with Exotic Fruit Smoothie and Sun Ripened Raspberry. The purple one is Sheer Freesia with Raspberry Violet. The Blue one is called Salty Mariner and is such an amazing ocean-y scent! I'm reserving the blue for the men, though I have a feeling most of them would give them away!
I finished my pixie dust!! I know some of my readers have long awaited this one! My problem was that a fellow bride friend of mine promised me a sheet of the hershey kiss stickers that you can personalize, BUT she moved away and it got packed, blah blah blah. I finally sucked it up and bought a pack myself, even though it came with 400+ stickers and I only have 30 pixie dust vials! Anywho, Enjoy.
and just for giggles, here's a few more soaps I made. The Green swirl is Wasabi and Moroccan Mint, The Pink/Dark Purple is Sun Ripened Raspberry and Violet, and the pink embedded Mickey soap is scented with Passionfruit Papaya and Lychee Red Tea... OMG, it smells AMAZING!!!
And another DIS member asked about starfish soap on the DCL Brides thread... I took a whack at it and made some 'starfish in sand' soap. It was pretty tricky getting a sandy color, to be honest! I don't have any brown colorants to tone down yellow! They could've turned out better, but it always takes some trials and errors to get it perfect! Here's a couple photos of those in case she ever wanders onto my page! (I would love to make and sell soaps or bath salts as wedding favors! I would love a way to craft for a living, if only I could figure out how!) I apologize for the horrible night-time lighting in these photos. Apparently my light bulbs are very yellow-y!
Well, wish me luck! I'm hoping to keep the hair-pulling and nail biting and sleeplessness at a minimum. Just yesterday I was super-bummed about my salt project gumming up and it put me into a REAL funk all night. Michael does his best to cheer me up, and that's why I love him! (He also knows when to just shut up and love me from afar! hahahahaha!) Ahh, wish me sanity, because I'm surely going to need it!