PiiXIE Dust Magazine: Issue 3

Crafts

How to make your own Luxury Bubble Bath:

Here's a quick and simple way to make some luxurious bubble bath that you can enjoy when treating yourself to a well-deserved pampering session. Alternatively, put some in a pretty glass bottle and give it to your friend or family member as a present

1) In a clean bowl, mix together two cups of clear or light-colored shampoo, three cups of water and two teaspoons of salt. Stir the mixture gently until it thickens slightly.

2) Pour a tiny amount if red food coloring into your mixture and stir again. Keep adding the food coloring until the mixture is a perfect pink color.

3) Add ten drops of an essential oil for a wonderful scent. Rose, Lavender, Ylang-Ylang, Sandalwood, Marjoram, Myrrh, Rosewood and Chamomile have relaxing and luxurious scents.

4) Pour the bubble bath into a bottle and seal.

 How to make a stained glass window.

1) Take two pieces of black card and two pieces of grease proof paper all of equal size. Decide on a simple picture, for example a lead or a dolphin. Sketch your shape on to one piece of card.

2) Hold the two pieces of card neatly together and cut out your shape, leaving a border of card around it.

3) Select wax crayons in the colors you want to decorate your picture. With a sharp craft knife carefully shave the crayons.

4) Spread the wax shavings on one of the sheets of grease proof paper. Place the other sheet on top and run warm iron over them.

5) To assemble the window, place one piece of the card flat on a table and glue the other piece of card on top, trapping the grease proof paper between the two pieces of card. Hang your finished work best a window so that then light shines through it.

 How to make a bird feeder.

In the winter months it’s hard for birds to find food. Give then a helping hand by hanging this easy to make feeder from a tree or balcony, and watch a dazzling variety of bird flock to your garden.

Find a large, dry pine come that had opened out, rinse it under a tap and leave it to dry. When it’s dry, spread peanut butter all over the come with a spoon, making sure you fill all the crevices.

Spread some bird seeds on a flat surface and roll the pine come around in them. Press down quite hard as you do so, so that the seeds stick to the peanut butter and don't fall off. Make sure all the peanut butter is covered with seeds.