Mirror Image: How To Make Natural Body Moisturizer Cool Copper Projects Warm metallic hues are easy to love but often pricey. When you create the look... Easy Doily Bowl Craft a decorative bowl from a doily picked up from a flea market, antique... Camper Birdhouse Encourage birds to stay awhile with an adorable vintage birdhouse. Homemade Bath Salt {DIY Gift} Homemade bath salt is a great gift and it only takes a few minutes to make! Everyone loves a relaxing bath and sweet smelling bath salt is the perfect touch to help you wash away the cares of the day. You can create bath salt with just a few simple ingredients and your prettiest jars. Choose you favorite color and essential oils to formulate a homemade bath salt all your own. Did you know that there’s tons of research about the wonderful health benefits of salt in your bath water? I don’t know about you, but I can use all the stress relief I can get!!! Homemade bath salt is super easy and inexpensive to create. Supplies: 1 cup Epson Salt1 cup Sea SaltEssential OilFood Coloring Gather your supplies and start by mixing 1 cup Epson Salt and 1 cup of Sea Salt together in a large bowl. Add 3-6 drops of food coloring. Add 5-10 drops of essential oil {I used Lemongrass} and mix, mix, mix. Isn’t it pretty all pink and sparkly?!? Simple and beautiful work for me…this is the best kind of gift. ~Kim
interior divine tutorial: make a yummy natural sugar scrub | oh my! handmade goodness With the holidays around the corner and cold, dry winter weather upon us here in eastern Canada, I wanted to share a nice sugar scrub to make a great handcrafted gift for family and friends on your gift list this year. This scrub will tame the dry, flaky skin winter brings, and makes an excellent stocking stuffer. Here’s what you need to make your own Moisturizing Sugar Scrub: Equipment: Mixing BowlKitchen ScaleSpoonTowel (7)Heavy Bottomed saucepan (5)Pipette or measuring spoons (4) Ingredients: 90 g white sugar (1)30 g brown sugar* (2) *You can substitute turbinado or demerara sugar for a coarse scrub45 g shea butter (honey can be substituted) (3)5 g liquid vegetable glycerine (optional)5 g jojoba or extra virgin olive oil (6)25 drops essential oil of your choice (some popular choices are lavender, sweet orange, and clary sage)2 Vitamin E capsules, broken and contents squeezed into recipe 1. 2/3.
How To Make Soap At Home Here are some instructions on how to make soap at home using inexpensive ingredients, most of which are easily available in health food stores or the supermarket: 1.) Make the alkaline solution by adding 2 oz. of Red Devil lye slowly into 32 oz. of distilled cold water in a glass container, stirring slowly with a wooden spoon. The lye will react with the water, heating it and releasing fumes so be careful not inhale any. Set aside the solution to cool the lye. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) Year Boxes In keeping with my "documenting life" theme, I found this little craft over a year ago and I knew I had to recreate it. I found it HERE... the blog needs no introduction because all know and love Design Sponge. The Year Box The premise of the year box is that you have a card for every day of the year and they are divided by month. I have to admit that some days I have been bad and didn't write anything... but for the most part I'm keeping up with it. What you need: These cute berry boxes, I found mine online at an etsy shop. Date stamp and index cards (cut in half). Postcards (also cut in half) of course Design Sponge had real vintage postcards, I had to cheat and found this cute pack with a "vintage look" but were actually new. The longest part was the date stamping, I turned on a movie one night and stamped away, but because I was making 3 boxes it took what felt like all night. They are really a cute and simple (and inexpensive) gift.
Interiors Homemade Lotion Bar Recipe Thank you for visiting Little House in the Suburbs. Please subscribe and you'll get great simple living tips and how-to articles delivered to your inbox, for free! What is a lotion bar? It is a soap-hard manifestation of moisturizer you can make yourself that doesn’t go bad and doesn’t contain: . . . and stuff like that. And lotion bars are child’s play to create. I have a Cadillac lotion bar recipe, but I will lead with the, um, shall we say Ford Escort of lotion bars. 1 part vegetable shortening 1 part vegetable oil 1 part beeswax Melt the shortening and beeswax a double boiler or a little pan in a bigger pan of simmering water. To use: Let the warmth of your hand melt a little of the bar and rub into dry skin–hands, feet, elbows, etc. Yes, it’s oily at first. Here’s the Cadillac version: 1 part shea butter 1 part avocado oil 1 part beeswax 1200 IU vitamin E (1 lg. capsule) per every 6-8 oz. other oils essential oil (optional) Note: Shea butter can occasionally become grainy.
Crock Pot Hot Process Soap – LOTS of pics! I'm so excited to share this with you! I knew people made their own soap long ago and there were some people crazy enough to still do it, but i never considered it a reasonable thing to do... UNTIL I read that it could be done in a Crock Pot...fix it and forget it right? First thing you have to do if you want to make soap is find a recipe, in this instance, a hot process recipe. There are a TON of them online, but make sure you run them all through a lye calculator. I started out with a recipe of 80% Olive Oil and 20% Coconut Oil, plugged everything into my lye calculator and it gave me all of my exact measurements. 1. 3. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
Mini Marquee Sign with Lights Nov 5 We made this giant marquee sign last summer and I loved making it so when I saw these Mini Globe Lights I knew had to make a mini version. . Click through for full instructions and photos! (p.s.: The letters don’t light up separately, it’s just a photoshop trick. Materials Needed: Scissors, Quick Dry Tacky Glue , X-acto Knife, Whole Punch, Cardstock, Free Template, Ruler, Mini Globe Lights Step 1: Download and Print the free template onto cardstock. Credits + Contributors: All photography by Heather Zweig for Oh Happy Day Art Directed by Jordan Ferney Produced by Ashley Rose Kirschling Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
ANALOG|DIALOG Soap Making Instructions | Soap Making Recipes and Tutorials | Teach Soap - StumbleUpon The Easiest Pillow Cover Ever This is the easiest pillow cover ever. No measuring! No sewing! Just fold and tie. You need a piece of fabric 3 times as wide plus a few more inches and twice as tall plus a few more inches as the pillow. I used pinking shears to cut the fabric so it wouldn’t fray. Then fold the top down to the center. Fold both ends like the picture. Bring one side over the top of the pillow. Then the other side. Now tie the ends in a square knot. Ta-Da! I love the knot. And it looks great on the loveseat. It even looks great on the back if I want to switch sides. I’m linking to these awesome blog parties: