Today, I partnered with Andrea at PlusVoucherCode to give you some great ideas that will put the DIY into your Christmas decorating, while making sure to keep it classy while keeping the budget low. She’s bringing us 10 Christmas decorating ideas on a budget that I especially love because of the memories and family time...
Handmade beauty products are a fun and easy gift to make for birthdays and holidays. An easy favorite is handmade lip balm. If you’ve never made lip balm before, know that it’s as easy as throwing ingredients together, melting them, and then pouring it into tubes. I’ll also teach you how to add color to...
It’s the perfect time to start making handmade soap. I’ve put together a wonderful variety of Handmade Christmas Soap Recipes so that you can get started right away in creating gifts that are natural, healthy, and greatly appreciated by family and friends. If you’ve never made handmade soap before, learn how by starting with my...
Most everyone loves to get homemade gifts, so I put together 33 Homemade Gift Ideas with Essential Oils. Homemade gifts are thoughtful and show that you put in a lot of personal effort and care – especially when they see your excited face as you explain all the ingredients and how good they are for...
Most people I know are trying to be creative with their gifts, and there are a number of reasons for this: wanting to be frugal, the enjoyment that comes from being creative and making things with your own hands, the special touch that a handmade or even partially DIY gift can bring to the occasion....
Last year we did a beautiful thing. I saw a Thankful tree on Pinterest and on a whim decided the day before Thanksgiving that we were going to make one. It was super easy and turned out to be a memorable experience. We actually had people from both sides of the family – in-laws, grandparents,...
A few of you have asked for my Christmas Soap recipes. I’ve shared my Pumpkin Spice Recipe. Over the next few days I’ll share a few more Christmas Soap recipes. If you’re just buying for gifts, you can find these in my shop. You may think these are coming out too early, but if you...
This party mix is totally amazing! It is so delicious and can be made within minutes. Now, this is in NO way real food….not even close…not nourishing or anything of the like due to the amount of sugar.. BUT, you can make this organic/non GMO very easily!! I never claimed that we don’t eat...
We will often get Kettle Corn at fairs and parks in the Summer, or at get-togethers during the winter. There’s no way I would buy the microwavable bags of popcorn after it came out that not only were some of the ingredients bad, but that the actual lining of the bags were causing factory workers...
We love apple cider! My one son always asks for it once he starts seeing it in the store. I actually wanted to buy some the other day for a class I was teaching. We were having a “Redwall Feast” and needed some good apple cider (Redwall is a great book to read with your...
Some might be thinking it’s early to be thinking about 11 homemade Christmas gift set ideas, but it isn’t if you make all of those gifts yourself. A lot of us who make gifts have to plan ahead for production time, curing stages, or steeping times. I have been teaching a class at our home...
Summer Berries and Cream means mouthwatering berry de-light! I really love blueberries. We just recently planted a few blueberry bushes that are starting to produce. They take many years to really get to a nice size (about 5 ft tall) where they produce thousands of berries. Until then, we will continue to get excited over...
A lot of the name brand marshmallows out there have a lot of ingredients that I don’t care for, like gmo-corn in 500 different forms and food coloring. We were getting ready to go camping so of course we needed marshmallows to cook at the fire. I had the time and we went ahead and...
Sometimes, the best Fathers Day gifts do not come from the store. Sometimes, the best Fathers Day gifts have nothing to do with purchasing something, but have everything to do with building memories. We live in a very consumer driven society. It is very easy to get into the mindset of, “There’s another holiday...
Moms always love getting something from their children that they made, whether it be a special card that says I love you, or a sculpture that’s made of mud. So, what could be better than homemade gifts for Mother’s Day that mom can use to make her feel extra special? As adults, it’s nice to...
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