The week before Thanksgiving, I always have a 3-day event for all my customers to come over and make various gifts. This is my lazy alternative to joining a craft fair! Come up with the creative ideas and have someone else do the work! Ha ha! No seriously, everyone LOVES this and look forward to it.

Usually I have about 10 projects to choose from, advertise the projects and everyone signs up for which projects they want and what day they will attend. I have their personalized kits ready for them when they come at their designated day and they pay according to project and how many of each they want. Project prices range from $5 to $15 and the most popular are between $5-$8.

One of the projects I came up with is this adorable $10 Snowman Bath Salts Jar:

Isn’t this lil’ fellow just the cutest?!!! He was quite easy to do, too. Bath salts can be bought very inexpensively by the box or you can get a huge bag of Epsom Salts from Wally World for cheap — which is what I used here because it was white. DUH!! ) Here’s the supplies list and step-by-step:

Snowman Bath Salts Mason Jar

• Mason Jar
• 3" Styrofoam Ball
• 1 small cork
• Epsom salts or Bath salts
• Googley Eyes
• Basic Black card stock
• Black Waffle paper (optional)
• Real Red 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon
• 1 small designer button (I used the olive flower one from the Stampin’ Up! Brights collection)
• 2 1/2 inch circle punch
• 1 3/4 inch circle punch
• Candy Cane Christmas Designer Fabrick
• Big Shot Fabric adhesive roll
• Heat gun
• Hemp twine
• Big Designer button (I used Real Red)

1. Cut a piece of 2 x 28 (approx) of the Candy Cane Christmas Designer fabric for the scarf and iron it onto a same sized Big Shot Fabric adhesive roll iron-on sheet. Remove liner sheet from cut adhesive piece. (If you’ll be doing several of these bath salts jars, just iron on the fabric adhesive to the fabric and then cut.)

2. Wrap this fabric around the top and bottom of the canning jar ring and heat with the heat gun to activate the adhesive and get it to stick to the ring. Fold the rest of the hanging "scarf" tails in half and heat to glue the two pieces together for each side of the scarf. Trim the bottom of each side to create fringe. Insert the middle part of the white side of the jar lid under the lid after the fabric is adhered.

3. Cut off about an inch off the bottom of a 3" styrofoam ball and glue to the center of the lid. DO THIS AFTER THE RING AND CIRCLE CENTER ARE TOGETHER AGAIN. Otherwise the ball won’t fit through the lid to insert the middle back in to complete the lid. (Ha ha ha…I learned this the hard way!)

4. Add googley eyes and a mini cork for the nose. (I inserted a needle in the cork, applied some spray adhesive and then dipped it in orange glitter to create the nose. By holding the cork by the needle and then dipping it into the glitter, you’ll be able to avoid any finger contact with glitter). Sharpie pen polka dots on the drawn on the styrofoam ball completed his cute face!

5. To create the hat, roll up a 1 1/2 by 7" piece of black card stock and glue to create a tube. I covered this tube with black waffle paper before rolling it up. For the hat top and bottom. Cover a quarter sheet of black card stock with black waffle paper and glue. Punch out a 1 3/4" circle for the top and a 2 1/2" circle for the bottom and glue to the tube with crystal effects.(or you can also punch out the circles and cut the 1 1/2 by 7" piece of card stock without the waffle paper, tape the pieces together with scotch tape and then cover the hat with the waffle paper to cover up the tape and help sturdy up the hat assembly.) Decorate with ribbon and a button. Glue the hat to the styrofoam head and then glue the head to the center of the canning jar lid.

6. Fill canning jar with bath salts/epsom salts and top it off by screwing on the styrofoam snowman head lid. It may take a little elbow grease as you are screwing on a thicker lid that has been covered with fabric.

WA LA!! An irresistable little jar of relaxation ready to give away! What a cure for the winter blues!