By Marybt, marybt.wordpress.com
I found an awesome project on Martha Stewarts website. (http://www.marthastewart.com/article/natural-beauties-bath-snowballs) In case you don’t feel like following that link, here is what they were supposed to look like.
Here is what mine looked like.
However, I am ever the optimist; my friends call me Pollyanna. Okay. That wasn’t true. No one has ever called me Pollyanna and I’m rarely optimistic. But I did have a rare moment of optimism when I thought I could “fix” this. After all, I did get the precise color of blue correct. So I thought to myself, “Self, you can just break those up, add some essential oil and have plain old bath salts.
Well, what Self forgot was that Martha’s instructions said to let these things dry for a couple days. I let mine dry for 2 weeks because after 2 days they certainly weren’t holding their shape. Then they sat in that vase on my counter for another 2 weeks before I got around to taking their picture. That stuff was cemented in the vase and I could not get it out!
I eventually had to just run hot water over the salts until they dissolved (there was no way in heck I was going to sacrifice one of my favorite vases for these stupid Martha balls!)
Wow. Leave it to Martha’s balls to mess up a cool vase! LOL
Aw, man! Did you at least dump some of the salt water in the tub and enjoy a bath with it?
That is just precious. Thanks.
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too funny…….looks like a shave ice treat!
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That’s pretty much how ANY martha project I try turns out….
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this blog is the funniest i have read in a long time.
these crafts are friggin awesomely awful.
i can’t stop laughing. my heart hurtz. thanx
4 tha laughs!!!
LOL this is why there is only ONE Martha and the rest of us are left to watch her in wonder and awe ;)
Yeah, Martha makes me crazy too…
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Oh my gosh, Carey! Now I’m kicking myself! I didn’t even think of that. THUD.
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This is hilarious!
I never knew Martha was such a bad designer, but the shoe fits. It’s very rarely the big famous people that actually have talent at making things.
I’m addicted now! I must share my own failed crafts!
Oh man. Definitely looked like a summer drink, too bad it didn’t work out!! I hate it when things like this happens.
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Reminds me of coconut ice slice – very tasty!
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Looks like something to quench your thirst, snow cone, icy, beautiful colors.
Too bad they didn’t turn out! If you feel like attempting any other bath salt projects (fun gifts for the holidays), check out SaltWorks for their bath salts. All different kinds, and free shipping right now!
LOL. Totally fail. LOVE IT
Reminds me of about half my bath fizzie batches. Those freaking things are like making candy – if the humidity’s the slightest bit too high, they absorb the moisture from the air and take off like one of those ash snakes, if it’s too low nothing sticks and they just crumble.