Relaxation with Halloween Style - Pumpkin Spice Body Scrub

The last two posts were on the negative side of things, but I am happy to report things are starting to turn around. I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of things at my new job, I have a new wonderful and caring boyfriend who is everything my ex wasn't for me, and I'm starting to get to crafting again.

My new craft thought I am very happy to share. I have had a constant battle with my legs. I hate them, I've got marks where the leg hair should be but I shave. I've recently done some digging around: one of the solutions that I found was to start using body scrubs. Well... that's well and good but that can get expensive. I'm not going to give up though. It's time to start with the DIY.

This body scrub that I mixed up I got from Homemaking Hacks and this was a great, quick thing to whip up. I've spent the last several days trying it out on my hands and have seen a considerable difference in how soft they are. Next, I'll move to my legs but it will take weeks before a difference is noticed. So in the meantime, I thought I'd share this great body scrub with you.

Since it's fall, this Pumpkin Pie Sugar & Spice Body Scrub was a no brainer.

Ingredients:
1 Cup of Light Brown Sugar
1 Tablespoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1/2 Cup of Oil of Choice (I used Extra Virgin Olive Oil)

Instructions

1. Blend and place sugar and spices in a water proof container.

   Add oil slowly and blend periodically until all of the oil has been added.

 

2. To use, gently rub the scrub onto your skin. Massage lightly with your fingertips, rinse with warm water.

 

Use caution when using oils in the shower or tub, it gets slippery.

 

 

I'd like to make this again with other types of oils such as coconut oil which can be very good for your skin, but I used what I had on hand.

 

 

What's great? This batch can be separated into smaller jars and given as gifts!

 

Don't these Halloween Pumpkin Scrubs look to die for?





Stash Bash! Birthday Edition

So Monday was my niece's birthday and I quickly dove into my stash of fabric to find something good to use for her birthday present. I discovered some leftovers from a quilt.

A quick google search showed I had enough for what I wanted to do. A blanket and pillow for her American Girl doll. I even had extra stuffing and padding. So here we go:

This 8 year old in my life is a huge frozen fan and absolutely adored the frozen pillow I made her for Christmas. So for her birthday, her doll got an Olaf pillow and a reversible blanket.

I think she was very happy with this and I really enjoyed jumping back into sewing with this quick project that really helped me destress from the first 2 weeks of a new job and family/relationship drama. I was in a great mood the rest of the day.

The blanket was cut 21" x 18" wide and I added blanket padding since I had that laying around. After I sewed three sides I flipped it outside out and used my quilting thread to sew through the blanket o keep the parts together then finished up the end. Followed up around the other sides to make it look uniform.

The pillow was 9" x 12" and three sizes were sewed before being stuffed with stuffing and the final side was closed up.

Overall for a first try at doll bedding, it turned out great in my opinion and the opinion my niece so I think that is the most important.

Crafting & Cooking (New Recipe!)

It's been a while since I've posted so I think I should share what I have crafted lately as a jump back into blogging. I gave myself a sewing project in which I made rice hot/cold packs. One for my family, one for my guy, and one for myself.

 I also found time to make a very sad looking Captain America bow:

There were also projects given to me at work and I whipped up some deco mesh and burlap wreaths to sell and give inspiration to customers:

Then I sat down and did a quick painting in my World of Darkness notebook of my werewolf, Delilah in her Gauru (full) form.

Then a few of my Wyches were finished and made table ready. I'll be happy with them until somebody says, "looks like you're almost done." Then I'll most likely go back over what I've done and be happy with it again for a little while.

As far as food goes? It's been relatively unexciting. A lot of eating out and a few instances of playing around with french toast. I made blueberry and cream cheese french toast and it is very simple.

Makes 1 serving.

2 slices bread
Cream Cheese
Blueberries
2-3 eggs

Heat up your griddle or in my case skillet.

 Start off with the 1 piece of bread and spread cream cheese on it, sprinkle on as many blueberries as will make you happy and put a second piece of bread on top of it making a sandwich.

Butter your griddle and give your cooking area a nonstick section.

Whisk your eggs to break up the yolk and dip your sandwich in one side at a time. Then you would put your sandwich on the griddle and cook until it is done. Usually about a few minutes on each side.

I like to cut the french toast sandwich in half. You can serve it with powdered sugar of syrup.

I also made my sister's favorite Pumpkin French Toast, but I'll save that recipe for another time. In the mean time enjoy the Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast.

D20 Flower Hair Clip

I try to craft as often as I can. Doing something crafty gives me something creative to do, it gives me something that I can focus on for a little while and I have a finished product by the end of it. Totally beats surfing the Internet. So this past week has been D20 Flower Hair Clips. I came across the project and knew I wanted to create one.

The one on the left was my first run though. Armored Gopher Games was out of D20s so I had to pull some out of my bag. I settled on my blue with white numbering one. For the second one, which was a request from a friend of mine she wanted a red D20, but the moment she saw my black D20 with red lettering she said she had to have that one. So I made a black and red flower to go with it. By second run through was by far superior to my first. I can't wait until the Gopher gets more D20s in so I can make more of these hair clips.

Here is a the walk through I used to get these flowers completed from Swords & Stitchery on Youtube. For the 2 color flower, I added another layer of petals, stepping those squares down to 3/4".

Happy Crafting!