Time to link up your best projects, home improvements, recipes, and creative ideas!
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Funny Christmas Sweaters and Friday Favorites Linky Party 555
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Friday Favorites Linky Party 552
Time to link up your best projects, home improvements, recipes, and creative ideas!
Please support and follow our lovely blog party hostesses:
Jerri at Simply Sweet Home - Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Lisa at Condo Blues - Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Amy at A Day of Small Things - Pin
Penny at Penny's Passion - Twitter | FB | G+ | Pin | Inst
Jennifer at Busy Being Jennifer - Twitter | FB | Pin | Inst
If you are featured this week, be sure and grab a featured button for your blog!
You can show your love for this week's favorites by going over and commenting on the posts and by pinning or sharing!
And if you love all of this week's favorites, please pin, share, and invite your friends to this week's linky party!
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Marble Look Porcelain Bathroom Tile and Friday Favorites Linky Party 549
Thursday, September 24, 2020
DIY Fall Pennant Banners and Friday Favorites Week 548
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Friday Favorites Week 547
Thursday, September 10, 2020
How to Level a Rain Barrel Stand and Friday Favorites Week 546
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Easy Fall Wreath And Friday Favorites Week 545
Thursday, August 20, 2020
The Benefits of Pet Health Insurance and Friday Favorites Link Party Week 543
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Super Silky Oh So Fluffy Coco Butter Body Butter Recipe
My latest batch of liquid soap came together beautifully. That gave me the courage to retry making the coco butter soap recipe from this soap making book that I messed up so horribly it came out like Flubber. (Disclosure: I am including affiliate links for your convenience.) I learned from my mistakes and had e a perfect batch of coco butter soap cooking in the slow cooker. I also had a wee bit of melted coco butter and coconut oil leftover – too little to use it for soap, too much to throw away. I am just about out of moisturizer and coco butter is one of my favorite types of lotion and body butter. Hey, let’s make some!
Except.
I don’t like how my previous homemade body butters made coconut oil eventually lose their fluffy texture, the oils started to separate, and coconut oil turn grainy in the jar.
So much so that I told myself the next time I make it, it will not include coconut oil as an ingredient and that I’d make a lotion instead of a body butter. (Lotion= moisturizing oils/butters+emulsifier+ distilled water. Body butter= moisturizing oils/butters only.)
Which I remembered after I had measured and combined the melted coconut oil, coco butter, and vitamin E oil in the measuring cup I use for water. D’oh!
All is not lost! First up, using a high speed stick blender or mixer (like a like this KitchenAid Stand Mixer) over a hand mixer will help loads but to really keep the ingredients fluffy and from separating you need to use an emulsifier because well, that’s what emulsifiers were born to do.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Virtual Get Togethers and Friday Favorites Link Party Week 540
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Soapmaking and Friday Favorites Linky Party 538
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Growing Vegetables from Scraps and Friday Favorites Linky Party 531
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Red, White, and Blue Face Masks and Friday Favorites 530
After all that sewing, I had to take my workhorse sewing machine in for repair and my backup sewing machine when it decided it wanted to break too. Oh no!
Thursday, May 14, 2020
DIY Mental Health Jar and Friday Favorites Week 529
After one too many social media conversations about being disappointed about upcoming plans, events, and whatnot being cancelled due to Covid-19 (and then feeling guilty afterward for being sad over something so trivial when so many people around the world are going through much, much worse) I started to think that for my mental health I should try to focus on what little good things are happening around me instead the daily mountain of bad.
No good or happy event or moment is too big or small for my jar, because let's face it, things are so weird that I road the happy until the wheels fell off the day I ordered Instacart groceries and the original delivery date was a week away until I added my product substitutions and the delivery date changed to later the same day of the order - which hasn't happened in a very long time. Kinda silly, I know, but at least it points my head in the direction of complimenting rather than complaining.
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Elizabethan Chemise (Shift) and Friday Favorites Week 528
Thursday, April 30, 2020
3 Quarantine Bottle Cap Crafts and Friday Favorites Week 527
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Mini DIY Ceiling Light Makeover and Friday Favorites Week 526
Because quarantine mini makeover sounds so much nicer than bunch of nagging DIY projects I put off forever and need to do something to keep from going stir crazy in lockdown so I'm finally getting around to it.
Ahem.
My late project is getting rid of one more ugly builder ceiling light in the in our upstairs hallway. I installed this industrial beauty while my husband was making dinner. One more light banished - 2 more to go!
The thing that made my heart sing "this is the ONE"are the Edison style bulbs (you can buy Edison style light bulbs here) because they work with tapestry and pendulum clock. Best of all you can buy LED Edison bulbs so I get the energy saving LEDs I like and my husband gets the warm yellow light of an incandescent light bulb he likes. We both win.
I showed you my project. Now you show me yours!
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Friday Favorites Week 525
Time to link up your fantastic and creative craft and DIY projects, recipes, and ideas!
Let's Party!
Please support and follow our lovely blog party hostesses:
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Homemade Cloth Face Masks and Friday Favorites Week 524
A family member asked me to make her some and the ball started rolling from there. I guess saving every scrap of leftover fabric has its advantages in an emergency.
Time to link up your fantastic and creative craft and DIY projects, recipes, and ideas!
Let's Party!
Friday, April 3, 2020
Cute Quarantine Dogs and Friday Favorites Week 523
Time to link up your fantastic and creative craft and DIY projects, recipes, and ideas!
Let's Party!