Riot and Frolic

This week- make your own glitter.  

Really?  Neat!

The first time I saw this, I said, "No way!  That is so cool!"  But then I thought about it.  Isn't glitter punched out of super-thin sheets of colored metal?  Why yes, says Wikipedia:

"Glitter describes an assortment of very small (roughly 1 mm²) pieces of copolymer plastics, aluminum foil, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, bismuth oxycholride or other materials painted in metallic, neon and iridescent colors to reflect light in a sparkling spectrum."

Hmmm…  I'm suspicious of this project.  Supposedly, you mix salt and food coloring together, bake it, and it becomes glitter.  Okaaaaaayyyy…

This is glitter.

This is not.

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Here's the dealio:

Pour some salt in a bowl and add a couple drops of food coloring.  Stir.  Preferrably by a sweaty toddler being watched by her crabby sister.

It looks really cool once mixed.  Spread it out on a baking sheet.

Put it in an oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.  Crabby sister is intrigued.

This is what appeared.  Um, it's blue salt.  It's about as sparkly as a vampire. 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Plus, when I used this "glitter" with some glue, it turned into wet, blue salt.  

Speaking of fails:

The bar-soap-to-liquid-soap experiment is not my fav.  Maybe if I'd followed the directions, I would be happier about it.  As it stands, I either have soapy water or supersaturated bar soap in a bottle.  It's a mystery every time I take a shower!  Fun!  Sadly, I'll probably try it again.

Okay, you all actually read the directions (who does that?) for Special K Bars and noticed that there are butterscotch chips in them.  After I had you convinced that there was nothing "scotch"-y about them, I understand you are confused.  But the butterscotch is not IN them, it's ON them.  It's like calling a cake "a chocolate cake" because it has chocolate frosting on it, even though it's white cake.  Yeah?  What's up?  Still the winner!  Woop woop!