Thursday, January 14, 2021
Easy Embroidered Coaster and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 564
Thursday, December 31, 2020
End of the Year Silver Linings and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 562
What a long, strange, trip this year has been. My husband and I kicked off 2020 at a Roaring 20's party and shortly afterwards everything roared to a full stop. While it is all too easy to focus on the boatload of the bad things that happened this year, for my sanity and mental health, I'm trying to focus on the few positives I experienced:
- I did a lot of projects on my Do It Yourself Honey! list. DIY, craft, and otherwise. As a result, I got new and repaired clothes, household items, home improvements, and cleaned out a bunch of my fabric stash and scraps. Yay!
- A Christmas gift from my mother in law inspired me to relearn how to crochet. Something I haven't done since my grandmother taught me as a kid.
- Zooming all over the country to see friends, family, and performances regularly instead of the once or twice a year we normally do in real life.
- Having the free time to shop at farmer's markets and can a boatload of end of season sale tomatoes.
- Lacey is absolutely thriving with both of her people being at home 24/7 (although her people have gone a little stir crazy at times being home 24/7.)
Time to show off your creative recipes, projects, and ideas for the last time this year!
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 561
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
Slow Christmas Ideas and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 560
Christmas is my favorite time of year because there are so many fun places to go, things to see and performances to do before we get the extended family together for a big, happy celebration on Christmas day!
Except this year. It's a pivot. pivot. Christmas pivot kind of year.
But you know what? I'm enjoying the change.
- No quick, wolf down dinner, we have to book it out the door and to an event.
- No fighting traffic, crowds, or stores because everything is being picked up or delivered to our door (let's give an extra shout and thank you to all postal and delivery drivers. THANK YOU!)
- There's the chance to put the holiday things you don't always enjoy aside for something new because it's just the household this year. For us, we're going to start our day with mimosas and end it with either fancy lobster tails or super causal homemade pizza for dinner. We haven't decided yet. Which one would do you think we should have for Christmas dinner?
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Happy Hanukkah and Linky Party Week 559
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah! I hope you start your holiday off right and celebrate happily and safely.
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 558
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
Holiday Tablescapes and Friday Favorites Linky Party Week 557
Thursday, November 19, 2020
IKEA Christmas Decoration Shopping Haul and Friday Favorites Linky Party 556
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Funny Christmas Sweaters and Friday Favorites Linky Party 555
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
Friday Favorites Linky Party 552
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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.