I need to make a confession about my obsession!

I'm not sure how it started, probably when I started making bath bombs, I bought a book with a few photos and recipe ideas in it and the writer suggested that ice cube trays made an ideal mould.

I started with the square ones but they were soon dispensed with when I found some other funky designs in Ikea (can I blame them for my addiction?) The pile grew fish, stars, hearts, until I needed a bigger box to store them in. Then there was a trip to a Lakeland store– oh they have so many different designs and they make silicone moulds for cakes and chocolates, my heart palpitated when I first saw their range, I needed a bigger box.

So the pile grew larger and the box got bigger I thought it was something I could control but the desire to create new fun designs was too much so I need something terrible I used Google – “ice cube trays” is something I should never have typed into that search engine! Do you realise how many different shaped ice cube trays are available in the UK? Dolphins, seashells, cars, trees, ducks, cars, icebergs and titanic ship (I kid you not),bullets, hearts, stars, pac man, skulls and bones, guns, dogs, balls, penguins, brains, cats, robots.......you get the idea? My box is definitely too large I need to stop but I constantly find myself drawn towards the home aisle at the supermarket, I find it hard to go pass a £1 shop without nipping in to have a look and my children sigh when I pop another one into the box!

But now I am making soap and doing more soap workshops they will all come in very handy, what child wouldn’t like to wash their dirty little hands with a glittery snowflake?