So yesterday we hit Walmart because I needed so many different things I thought I would save myself the hassle of visiting 5 different stores and go to one. I went straight to the Christmas center and looked through ornaments. I finally found some labeled mini. I looked at them and bought them even though I didn’t they were mini. Remember those mini christmas trees and mini ornaments? Yea, I can’t find those ANYWHERE in town! I have checked dollar stores, dollar generals, Big Lots, Targets, and Kmarts. Nada. So yea, I settled for what they had. I forgot Walmart got rid of their craft section (stoopid Walmart, now I remember why I hadn’t set foot in there….other than the obvious crowded reasons). So after last minute shopping and what not we went around the corner to J&S Cafeteria for some dinner. It just so happens to be next to AC Moores. So after we ate I ran over there to get the glitter….and picked up a couple knitting books lol. So we get home and I have 4 doz cookies that still need to be made for the teachers at the daycare. While I have those in the oven I whip out everything for the soaps. Man, was I excited. Until. Until I  checked the size of the “mini” ornaments in the ice cube tray….too big. Way too big. So I panic because I am really out of time by now. I finish the cookies while racking my brain trying to figure out what next. I come up with what I thought was brilliance. Why not use a muffin pan? Oh yea that would work, right? No.

First, here are the ornaments I picked out. They came in packages of 6.

So I melted down the soaps and added just a drop of blue food coloring, then some glitter.

Looks good so far, right? Yea well then I put the ornaments in anyway, even though they were too big. First I noticed mine floated to the top (well bottom of the snowglobe) and I needed to let the globes cool just a little bit. Timing that was hard. Once I got them in place i had to hurry and put the white soap shavings on top so they would adhere and keep ornament in place.

The pictures don’t show it well but the ornaments were actually peaking out so I dumped MORE shavings on. Then I shoved them in the oven in hopes they would melt a bit (they didn’t, just got hard). I finally just let them sit and cool and figured maybe it wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Wrong.

You can’t even SEE the ornament?

So here is the deal. Don’t use a muffin pan. I am going to try and find some deep ice trays (cause I am determined to make these work!). I think you can’t see the ornament because there is more glycerin than in the sample I had seen. I am hoping I will be able to find some small MINI ornaments at the Dollar Store around Easter time. I am still flabbergasted at how difficult it was to get everything to do this. I guess I should have taken it as a sign and held off from making them.

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