Emily Creates

I have been in a weird headspace and I am not sure how to get out of it. It has been a long time since I have done anything particularly creative and even longer since I have actually finished anything. So I am really pissed at myself while I also know I should not be since I am aware I have depression issues and the seasons are turning so I am getting the extra fancy seasonal depression as well. I am also frustrated with not getting out of my house to exercise like I had planned to all summer. I even got myself a bicycle, and I have it ALMOST set up properly but I had to put it in the garage because it was taking up too much space in my house and the porch is not secure so to the garage it went and has not come out since.

I think what gets me the most is wanting to do things, knowing they will make me happy to do them and finish them, but I still can't manage to even get started.

My first batch of lotion bars! The skulls are because I didn't think I was going to have enough for another full flower, but we all know I am awful and eye-balling how much stuff can fit in what size mold. They smelled nice but the beeswax-to-liquid oils ratio was too high. Which means they left skin feeling slightly sticky.

Luckily! Lotion bars are super easy to re-batch by melting them down and adding more liquid or softer oils! The skulls ended up being a blessing since I used one of them as my tester and was able to re-batch the rest of them because they had not been used/dirtied.

When bath bomb mixing goes bad... Too much fluid in this mix made it react as it was drying and it was a complete disaster. At least I learned?

One of my first times using melt and pour soap. I love these molds and a lot of other molds made by these folks but I am not sure if they are still in circulation, and I don't remember the exact brand, I will edit with that information later... if I remember.

That one time i was making cute minimalist oatmeal bath bombs for my niece who has eczema, and my dog totally tried to eat one when I had my back turned.

For more of my crafts visit my linktree for all my social links.That one time in 2016 when I made soap jellies.

These were made with gelatin because that's what I had in my cabinets anyway, it was ancient gelatin at that (from the early 1990s probably). If I were to make them again, and had time to order the right ingredients, I would definitely try to go a vegan route to get them to gel.

Christmas marbled soap! These were also cold process and I cannot express how thrilled I was with the look of these soaps! The scent I used was a scent that made me think of Christmas when I was a kid and we had real trees every year and the smell of the pine trees, and gingerbread and it was/is an amazingly nostalgic scent for me.

This soap was supposed to be halloweeny purple and orange but the purple turned brownish grey and the orange came out duller than I had hoped. Being a super newbie with soap making means stuff like this happens at times. Luckily it still smelled good!

These were my first super good result with cold process soap! They were a pumpkin spice scent and were not great with lathering but that's because of my oil mix and not adding extra foamy additives.

They smelled great, and were not drying at all so success all around, unless they went to anyone who is super fond of sudsy soap.

The first time I tried to get into bullet journalling! I only had my G2 bold pens and being a lefty meant I had a rough time with smearing. I wish I could find some smooth, bold and fast drying pens. But so far I have not found bold and quick-dry in the same ball-point pen.

A few not halloweeny rocks! The dot mandala style things were super fun to learn to do and blue one was one of my favorite rocks I have ever painted.

Beaded coptic style hand bound notebook. The beads were a pain to use because they were super irregular in size, and the thread I was using was too thick and when combined with the needle I use for binding ended up even harder to get through the eye of the beads.

My fingers were pretty sore after this project.