Witch Brew Bath Bomb Upcycle

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Hey reader,

Ok before I get into this newest bath bomb upcycle project. I need to complain about something. You know I am pretty crafty. As such I have an affinity for craft related YouTube accounts. Some of them are great. My newest obsession is Positive Couple. They are a YouTube duo based out of Russia and they make some incredibly gaudy and completely epic desks that I am living for. They aren't the subject of my rant though. 

This is a rant about 5 minute crafts. First of all, these people have 52 million subscribers on their channel. Their videos frequently are life hacks rather than crafts, and I can guarantee they will take longer than 5 minutes. Still, I find myself watching, yelling at my monitor, crying alone about how someone is making millions of dollars on the ad revenue. It is a vicious cycle. This recent upload is inexcusable. I am filled with an unhealthy rage about it. I timestamped it so when you click it will go right to the offending "craft."

It seems like a normal sewing project. It isn't exactly an earth shattering project, but fine. It will leave a cute little pattern on your denim - until the thread breaks and the whole thing unravels because there are no knots in it. I can't be mad though, its 5 minute crafts. No one is legitimately thinking this is a really viable craft option. Lets see the finished product to the right. Am I seeing what i think I am seeing?


I am. That is paint. This isn't thread at all. Your "after" is clearly not even the craft you were illustrating. I am so unreasonably angry at this discovery. You already filmed the stitching happening. Isn't it more work to then go back and paint the same pattern on a jacket. Did no one on this production go, "this seems a little silly?" Making the fake finished product probably took two to three times as long as the shitty sewing would have taken. I'm also not looking at a moon-landing-quality fake here. Get thinner lines so it looks at least a little closer to what the original project was. (Note: I believe the moon landing is real.)

I can't look at this anymore it is making me too angry. Lets talk about happier - and realer - crafts. For Halloween this year, someone gave me a little plastic cauldron filled with candy. It was a super cute gesture and I immediately started figuring out ways to reuse it.

There are a lot of cute cauldron bath bombs on Etsy so I figured I would make one too!

My recipe again is:
1 Cup Baking soda
1/2 Cup of Citric Acid
1/2 Cup of salt
Sprinkling of corn starch
Tablespoon of witch hazel added slowly to dry ingredients

I added scent and used food coloring to make my bomb a fun green color. I need to get more cauldrons because this came out so cute. It also will diffuse slower than a normal bomb because there is less surface area exposed to water. It you are into that kind of thing. I feel like gold would have worked too, perhaps with a little rainbow coming out the top for St. Patrick's Day. I am a little hesitant to make yellow bath bombs though. Call me crazy, but I worry about the visuals of bathing in a deep yellow water. 

Had I prepared better, I would have gotten little bat cake decorations for the top of this. It's ok, this was a project I have been wanting to test run with since Halloween - and it is finally here!

Keep making cool stuff. Except you, 5 Minute crafts. You stop.
Until next time,
JoshPrime

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