A Bottle of Bubbles and Foam

Well I finished the trilogy I was reading and now I’m sad!  Do you ever feel remorse after finishing a book series?  Like you never wanted it to end, but couldn’t help but race to the ending?  So bittersweet.  I asked Will when I finished my book if there was a mental condition for wanting to live in a fantasy world.  If so I definitely have that.

Probably to humor me, Will said “let’s do it” when I nonchalantly suggested on Friday that we go to King Richard’s Faire the next day.  Well, we had a great time!  The kids both seemed to really enjoy it, and I got my dose of fantasy.  Plus as the icing on the cake, the whole family even wore costumes without question.  Maybe I’ll have to get into LARPing next…  (I know, I know, go ahead and laugh!  You know I’d love it.)

Well, I’m overdue on giveaways!  I had such a streak going… and then I fell off the wagon!  But I’ve got a fun one this time!  I’ve been getting more and more into the Blueland products.  It all started with their soap, and now I have tried pretty much all of their offerings.  I love that the cleaning products are all plastic free, and allow you to reuse the plastic/glass bottles you already have.  I reused all my existing foaming hand soap containers from Bath and Body Works for Blueland soap and it works great.  I just fill my bottle with very hot water to just below where the threaded cap starts, drop in a tablet, and wait until it fully dissolves (this part is super important and sometimes takes a couple of hours).  Then you can screw the cap on and start pumping foaming soap!

Win this set!!

Recently I jazzed up a couple dispensers with some patterns I drew.  (These ones are inspired by ACOTR.)  I love how they came out.  If you like them too you can enter my contest to win this one with a couple tablets of Blueland hand soap for you to try out!  All you need to do is tell me a love story.  (Real, fake, serious, silly, whatever!)  Post it in the comments (or even email me.)  You have until my favorite holiday (Halloween) to enter.  Can’t wait to hear what you come up with.

For those who want to upcycle their own version with a bottle from home, the instructions are below:

Upcycled Foiled Soap Dispenser

What you’ll need:

• Foaming Bath and Body Works Hand Soap Dispenser (pattern is made to match this size of bottle)
• Cricut Adhesive Foil (I used copper)
• Transfer tape.
• Cricut project here

1. Remove all labels from the soap dispenser, using rubbing alcohol to remove sticker residue if necessary.  Dry thoroughly.
2. Mount an 11×5″ piece of adhesive foil on the top left of a 12″x12″ lightweight mat.
3. Load cricut project, selecting adhesive foil as material, then follow instructions on the cricut to insert proper cutting tool and insert mat into cricut.
4. Press go, and wait for cut to complete.
5. Remove foil and backing from mat.  Weed the unwanted area around the cut.
6. Remove the long thin strip of foil, and position it along the base of the nozzle, about 2mm from the bottom of the screw cap.  Overlap start and end points to form a continuous circle.
7. Cut other 4 panes into individual rectangles.
8. Place transfer tape on top of one of the panes and slowly peel back the paper so the foil sticks to the transfer tape.
9. Center the transfer tape over one side of the soap dispenser (double heart goes on the narrower side, single heart goes on the larger side).
10. Press firmly and gently remove the transfer tape.
11. Repeat for the other 3 sides.