Whilst the items I’ve repurposed are household items, they’re really vintage household items in the main.
I bought an old Crown Derby trinket box (girly porcelain containers for bits and pieces of jewellery and stuff) which is perfect for my HWF #1 and would take a 100g Salter or Harris soap but I think an MWF cake might be too large.
I had ordered a Patum Peperium dish from eBay with a depiction of Constable’s Haywain on the lid but the daft bint never packaged it properly and lid was broken in two. This larger Patum pot is absolutely perfect for the HWF 50g soft cakes. One of our chaps has beauty with a Spitfire on the front that I covet enviously. The Haywain pot with lid intact:
I also have two English-made, blue and white James Kent ‘Old Foley’ cereal bowls which would make decent lather bowls if I wasn’t a dedicated face latherer. They are perfect for sticking a cake of the Salter soap to and also using as photo props for SotD shots.
I love old bottles too. The older Edwardian, Georgian or perhaps wartime through the 50’s glass poison bottles that are often hexagonal in shape with ‘Not to be Taken’ embossed on the front. I have a blue one in a 4oz size which is around 118ml, a green 8oz one in the same style and a mucklehoosive (proper terminology) amber coloured Timothy White’s Cash Chemist with lovely embossed script meant to be read with the bottle on its side. This last one contains a couple of bottles of Benjamin’s Bay Rum to which I’ve added some glycerin, extra West Indian Bay essential oil and a few drop of peppermint EO for a slight cooling effect. Corks for these bottles can be had from evilbay with a bit of estimation in the measurement. The cork in the big bottle has been in for over a year and still does its job perfectly. The following aren’t my pictures but give you the right idea.
@Mike Smart would love a large green one I think as it’d go well with a lot of his kit.
My photo of the large TW amber bottle:
I have the ability to hand carve soap bowls & lids from wood but it’s a labourious process and I’d rather learn to turn them. I have a quality lathe that I inherited form a dear friend but I have to get power out to my shed and set up a proper workbench and fit shed windows. Sheesh, not so easy for this cripple…
And of course, I carve with a knife my own shaving brushes from this wonder material called ‘wooden wood off trees’. Plastic? Resin? Wassallthadabout?!
I really should put TL;DR at the start of my overly wordy posts….
P.S. damn sedatives haven’t worked so it could be loooong night.
