Week 10: Hamam Kits

In case you weren't aware, I love Turkish Baths.  If you're curious about this love affair, read about that here.  Or, if you want to read about it from Alan's point of view, check out A New Year's Naked Surprise.

 

Nothing can really compare to the bliss of having someone else pamper you, but when we found a beach littered with natural pumice stone, an idea began to form.  

For our friends and family that would love a Hamam trip, but who probably wont ever make it to Turkey, I could send a little Hamam love their way.

Materials: Pumice stones, traditional Hamam towels, and olive oil soap. 

 

Pumice Stones

 

Traditional Hamam Towels

To craft this up a bit more, I figured I could boutique style wrap the soap.  For that I used parchment paper, scissors, tape, and a Real Simple magazine. (I don't have access to craft papers here. Luckily this has just forced me to be more resourceful. I use magazines and calenders for all sorts of paper crafts that I would have normally purchased paper for.)

 

Olive Oil Soap... smells just like the hamam. 

Wrap the soaps with parchment paper just like you would wrap a present. 

 

 Wrapped!

Rip out pages with fun colour patterns and few words. 

Tear the papers (long ways) in about 2 inch strips. (You could cut the paper of course, but my scrap-book-ey friend Sonya has recently turned me on to the art of paper tearing. (Exactly as it sounds).  I used the table edge to keep it somewhat straight. 

Wrap around and tape. 

Pretty. Pretty.

I'm particularly obsessed with this nail polish one. 

Also, I've made it a goal to take nice pictures.  You know... ones that don't have a messy room in the background, or my shadow in the foreground.  I like this one. 

 

I wanted the pumice stones to be hang-able, because I hate all of the things that gather at the bottom of my shower.  Besides, nothing says "Clean your feet with me!" like something that has been sitting in a puddle of water on the floor of the shower.  Yuck.  

Luckily, pumice stone is ridiculously easy to drive a hole through.  All it took was a hammer, a screw driver and a few whacks. (See I am tool-y!)

 

Add some twine, and good to go!

 One Hamam Care Package ready to spread some comfort.