Apothecary day

I know I was supposed to clean this weekend, but family's coming to town so I'll have to slowly pick up when I can. Luckily no one is staying at my apartment.
The box of tulle fabric was delivered quickly, I got it on Thursday. I still don't know what to do with it all! I mean obviously make a petticoat for my LSP cosplay, duah. But today I worked on a different project.
A month or more ago I bought some wild cherry bark and dried calendula petals and got to work. I made a tincture out of the cherry bark via an article from the 2013 herbal almanac. I infused what little almond oil I had left from making lotion with the flower petals, which I hear are good for acne and wound healing. I let them steep a lot longer than was probably called for but I don't think it's too bad. In the mean time I collected inexpensive glass bottles and strainers and what-not to successfully bottle everything up. Sorry there's no progress shots, I wasn't sure if I wanted to post it.
There are actually 3 little bottles all together for the oil, which comes to almost a whole whopping half cup total. There's almost a full cup of the cherry bark tincture. These bottles came from Joanne's for a buck each. The canning jars I used for infusing/steeping were from Target for pretty cheap too, I think like $5 for 4 jars.

Calendula infused almond oil on the left, cherry bark tincture on the right. Pretty bottles!

This week before I bottled the calendula oil, I dipped into it a little, adding a drop or two to my regular moisturizer. Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seemed to me my face (combination skin, acne prone, acne scars) looked a bit brighter and cleaner after the first day. But now I have a pimple on my chin and another on my temple. It's still oil so I gotta be more careful. 
Yesterday I also bought the fabric paint I need to paint my white sketchers purple. To be on the safe side, I also got some '80's themed sharpies, which was the only purple sharpie I could find. Will get started very soon on these shoes: (pardon the dirty soles...)

While I'm at it, I've been reading all over the internet how creating perfect pictues for blogs is a good way to get more traffic so I've started experimenting with putting together better shots. I made this for the apothecary shot:

A box, a white thin piece of plastic that I think came from a shopping bag? some fancy sparkly tulle-like material I picked up from value village for $4 or $5. I almost took it outside but my neighbors were about and it was looking kinda gloomy too.
So hopefully I'll get started on the shoes soon, after a bit of tidying up. It seems like a good project to work on while I'm doing laundry.