I found so many cool ideas from the links below. My favorite tip, one that I already practice, is to attach the small leftovers of bath soap to the top of the new bar. I love soap! I collect it. I've told every one that if they really want to get me a present that I love and is useful at the same time, to buy me soap as a gift. I scout health food stores, craft fairs, and specialty stores for unusual and hand crafted soaps when ever I can. I am usually in too much of a hurry to apply lotion even when I really need it after a bath and I've found using good quality soaps containing exotic ingredients that are good for my skin offers the same benefits as lotion in most cases. Plus, enjoying the scents and exploring the differences in each bar, adds a level of fun in bathing, a habitual and necessary function that we do so often that it is a shame not to make it into a nice experience every time!
I think it is in the things we do habitually that we can most benefit from the adding of a little spice of life. We spend so much of our time engaged in routines, so why not make them as nice and special as we can?
Because the types of soap I use may be of any consistency, color, shape or scent, I also enjoy sticking the nearly used up bar on the new one to see what combinations are created in appearance and smell. Plus that means there is no waste and it saves money. (Gotta love that!) Some of the soaps are very dense and may take a long time to dissolve away. The best stuck together soap stack I've made contained four bars that lasted for about a week before finally one by one each layer faded and I was left with nothing but the newer bar.
OK if by now you are thinking, boy it doesn't take much to amuse her! You would be right. 
But being easy to please isn't a bad thing is it?
I found the Project Gallery on Home Talk when an article about using vintage jewelry and buttons to make push pins caught my eye, but the site offers a lot of other neat ideas as well. http://www.hometalk.com/b...
There one thing led to another and I landed on this page, Debbie's Design Gallery, http://www.hometalk.com/b... to check out making seashells into ornaments. I was so delighted by the video continuing to play her ongoing series of crafty projects, that I ended up watching through a half a dozen more.
In 2014 Is Going To Be My Year Now That I Know These 89 Genius Solutions To Simple Problems, you will find such a range of helpful tips that this list can't be categorized. ( My favorite soap tip is on this list, does that make me a genius? ;-) )
Enjoy!
Copyright 2014 Wanda Hope Carter
