Christmas is coming!! please help me

[Twinsane]

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How about making soaps from scratch, the ingredients are relativley cheap if you buy them from a manufacturer rather than in kit form.
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Hope this helps,
Helen

Any suggestions on manufacturers? I can only find the kits or soap suppliers who don't end up being frugal! TY

I got the instructions off tinternet, a friend sent me a link, i would give you the link but i am a bit of a spod when it comes to anything tec, so if you know how to do this please tell me and i will post it for you.

Eve

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Good luck
I'd be interested in your lavender salts and onion chutney recipe!

[Greenbeast]

For christmas this year (and last year) we made everybody soap and wine

I use these people for my soap supplies:
http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk

They have a good recipe and method here, makes great soap:
http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/soap_recipe.htm

We used this recipe this year and added peppermint to some bars, cinnamon to others and left some plain

the soap works out about 50p per bar i think and wine is about £1.20 a bottle

Everyone absolutely loved their presents last year and this year they're gonna be better

[the.fee.fairy]

I'm surprised no-one has posted www.craftster.org yet!

Craftster's a great resource. there's loads of sewing, knitting, soap making, decoupage and just about everything else on there!

If you're a knitter, then www.knitty.com has some great things. ive found that the calorimetry is a very popular present, and it took me about a day to knit up, but someone faster could have it done in a matter of hours.

You can download toy patterns from the internet, and use cotton sheets from charity shops to make loads of them - then dye them/paint them with fabric pens, or, for creative youngsters, give them a plain white toy and some pens to colour it in.

Think i might do that last one with some monsters for a friend of mine...