Soap Dish Gift Idea « Cherry Menlove

Soap Dish Gift Idea

The right gift can occasionally be hard to think of. Especially after Christmas when you’re all spent out and the last thing you want to think about is buying more presents for people. But the fact is that folk are born in every month of the year and in my family we have a number of celebrations in the month of January and February. Also there is Valentines Day and Easter right around the corner, so gift ideas are always handy to have ready to call upon.

This soap dish gift idea is simple enough and came about when I stumbled across a wonderful homemade soap shop in Austria. Soaps of all shapes, sizes, textures, recipes and scents filled the shop and every one of them looked good enough to eat. I’d tell you about the shop assistants getting drunk in the middle of the day on Champagne but that’s another story and it was New Year’s Eve after all!

I bought an armful of soaps with the intention of giving them as gifts but wanted something a little bit more special to arrange them on to. I wanted the recipient to have something to keep long after the soaps had been washed down the plug hole and mini cake stands always come in super handy for entertaining.

I wrapped the soaps in clear wrapping and hand tied them with a mixture of wired ribbon and ric-rac.

I’d found some delicious wired butterflies in a craft shop and have been using them all over the place recently. Adding touches like this makes the gift a great deal more unique and changes it from ‘soaps on a plate’ to something a little more special.

These types of birds (above) can also be found online or in any good craft stores. Pop one in to the soaps and have it peeking out. Just another nice touch and these types of materials don’t cost the earth and help you to give almost extravagant looking gifts. Extravagant in detail and I for one love to get gifts like this.

Handmade soap that lasts and lasts.

And makes a long hot soak in the tub all the more luxurious.

Perhaps I’ll keep this soap dish and make another one!

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It has taken me far too long to get this up and running but finally here it is. It’s open for anybody to join and check in on what’s happening. Having a page like this makes much more sense than opening up my personal Facebook page as it’s becoming harder and harder for me to connect with my personal and long lost friends. Of course I’m not removing the personal page just yet but I would encourage you to move across to the new page as all the same info AND MORE will now appear over there.

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And the winners are…….

During December we had quite a few competition giveaways. Thank you to everyone who entered our Advent Competitions, we had an amazing response from you all but unfortunately not everyone could win! Well done to our lucky winners picked at random.

And the winners are……

Alexandra Tighe who won the fantastic Little Fashion Gallery vouchers.

Rebecca Marshall, pictured here with her son, from Leigh-on-Sea who won the Aromatherapy Associates ‘Rose Renew Facial’ and also a ‘Rose Indulgent Gift Set’ all from The Method Spa at Home House in London.

Karen Roe from Croydon who won the beautiful necklace from Xi Designs.

Belinda Dervish from Worcester who won the first of our beautiful Stilton Hampers

…. and to Kate Harper from Kingussie who won the second Stilton Hamper.

Amanda Steele from Sheffield who won Jamie Oliver’s book ‘Jamie’s America’ and finally to Katherine Krogulec from Nottingham who won the Kenwood Multi Pro Food Mixer .

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