hurry up and craft

I haven't got anything against Star Trek, I swear. But for all my interest in comics, sci-fi, and all things fantasy, the idea of a Voyager marathon today isn't what I'm feeling. When T, who never gets sick and yet is sick, asked if we could get these episodes out of the way so he could return the discs to his friend, I immediately thought, I need to craft. So, yeah, as long as you're ok with me running around getting things done...
I had a zombie dream last night, where I was trying to cure the "zombie virus" with essential oils (I made a small amount of eucalyptus rub for T the other night for congestion, maybe that's why?), and I've also been on a craft-using-only-what-I-have-kick*. Oh, and I've been reading The Complete book of Incense, Oils & Brews by Scott Cunningham. Put all this together and you get smelly soap balls.

Green eucalyptus and lavender balls, for sick people.

an intersesting mix of sandalwood and violet leftovers, and 2 different types of purples.

Reddish purple sandalwood celtic heart soap in mold

Violet essential oil scented. they were all made into balls, but this pic was supposed to show how cool they looked as chunks, almost crystal like.

Detail of sandalwood celtic heart.

The goods, in nothing fancy packaging.

I used Melt and pour soap and supplies from wholesale supplies plus (except the essential oils, which came from Moonshadow magic shoppe), with Crafters Choice coloring in forest green, candy apple red and something something blue. (A wave of exhaustion just washed over me. too tired to get up and look at the bottles.)
*an explanation of craft-only-what-I-have-kick:
I'm a crack-head when it comes to trying out new crafts. I realized this after xmas, when I bought a crap ton of yarn, a book on liqueurs, a bunch of glassware for apothecary stuff, and couldn't find places to put it all among all the leftover supplies from last years "new" crafting (woodburning/pyrography, stamping, soap, ect). So now I'm not going to buy more craft crap until I've used up (or given away) the old stuff. There was an attempt at a plan to do something each week until i was out of supplies, but that is way too organized for me. I also wanted to discipline myself by not using the new yarn until things get done, but hell, it's a cold winter here in P-town (yeah, that false spring sunshine from last post is gone) and I need a bunch of warm stuff.
Also, I got impatient with liqueurs. I'll give it one more shot, with almond flavoring, and maybe try out some tinctures, but I'm much more comfortable with oils and herbs. 

new-ish crafts

I know I was supposed to update a while ago, but I've been too busy doing all sorts of crafts. New skillz include woodburning and soap making (insert "squee!" from me here). Most of those pics aren't available yet, due to making them for a swap, and having yet to mail them.
But I promised pictures from the last swap, and so here they are! These were for a Lammas themed swap last month on craftster.org.:

Lacey altar cloth, knitted in summer/fall-type colors, merino wool.

cute leafy stencil, soy based paint on canvas

Lavender besom-lavender from cool herb shop around the corner

Hoopy! Corn in heart and tree embroidery

Also I have cleaned the kitchen, and used it for baking, crafting, soap and lotion making, and lots of cooking in the last month! Let me dig up pictures...
Clean-ish kitchen (Kay, so the only good pic I had of the clean stove had to be nixed, due to my BF playing guitar in the background in his undies. I nearly left it up, because you could barely see him, but felt considerate to his feelings, and erased it. :P) Look at my neat freshly cleaned kitchen shelf instead!

I love my crappy apartment if only for this old rickety kitchen shelf. The Uhura mug and Ghostbuster car and owl pic are all new finds.

The reason for cleaning: baking bread. 2 of 3 loaves made in one day at the beginning of August.

One of my new passions. Forgot to take a picture of the 3rd special loaf, but it's there wrapped in foil in the back.

My birthday was last weekend and this is one of the best presents ever, outside of craft related presents and cupcakes.

Anyone remember Twin Peaks?

So I'm due to send out my craft items for the Mabon swap at the end of the week, hopefully I'll get the pics of those up as soon as he receives. Any new non-swap related crafting I do in the mean-time I'll put up when I can. I've done some soaps and lotions, and a couple beginner woodburns that I'll end up keeping, so maybe those will be up soon.
On a side note, I had to buy a new set of knitting needles because I lost an entire project, the Noro scarf! WTH! My apartment is eating my stuff! I also bought a ball of special yarn last weekend that is no-where to be found.