Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things: Your house is full of hidden treasures and everyday items with the potential to be so much more. In this collection of 24 Instructables, you will learn unusual ways to use everyday items such as tennis balls, cheap vodka, nail polish, tea bags, coff…
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Hi there! Sometimes I come across some really cool tutorials on the world wide web… Sometimes I do them and sometimes I create my own. Today I thought I’d share with you some of my favourites. HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHALKBOARD PRINTABLE The chalkboard printable is all the go…
One of the first recipes I posted when I started this blog was a detailed post about toners. I've learned a lot since then, so let's update that recipe with all the stuff we've learned about hydrosols, extracts, water soluble oils, and so on! For a toner, you will want to stick to all water soluble ingredients because we don't want to add an emulsifier. Why? Because a lot of the emulsifiers are sticky, and we want something that is easily sprayable (yes, I like a spray bottle for ease of use) and we don't want any stickiness on our skin! So we'll find ways of adding water soluble ingredients that won't add stickiness and will behave like some of our favourite oil soluble ingredients. FOR ALL SKIN TYPES: Is toner suitable for all skin types? For oily skin, the answer is quite clearly yes! Toners, by definition, tend to be astringent, so this will help decrease some sebum production. It is a great way to moisturize without oils, and I use it as the last step in my morning routine for that reason. If you have acne prone skin, you can add some salicylic acid and anti-bacterial ingredients, and get moisturizing without oils. For rosacea prone skin, it's a fantastic way to add anti-inflammatories and anti-oxidants, as well as a little allantoin to act as a barrier ingredient. For pigmented skin, you could add some liquorice extract or Vitamin C to help with tyrosine inhibition, and get some exfoliation from AHA or salicylic acid. For wrinkled skin, you can use it as a way to include AHA or salicylic acid for exfoliation, anti-oxidants, and lightly moisturizing ingredients. The one skin type for whom a toner might not work well would be the dry skin type. Astringents are not your friends. So instead, I suggest the dry skin type think about a toner as more of a floral or extract splash to make her skin feel well hydrated before putting on moisturizer. If you can trap in some moisture - good moisture full of lovely extracts, hydrosols, and so on - then the moisturizer will work better! SWIFT'S BASIC TONER RECIPE up to 85% water based ingredients like aloe vera, hydrosols, and witch hazel 3% to 5% humectants 3 to 5% film formers and cationic quaternary polymers 3% to 5% moisturizers 2% panthenol up to 1% extracts (including allantoin) up to 1% preservative Toners are mostly water, so let's make that water part something awesome by including hydrosols, aloe vera, or witch hazel. We want humectants to moisturize without oils, and we want moisturizers like water soluble oils for skin types that can handle it. We need panthenol in there - there's just too much goodness for every skin type to ignore it - and we need our preservative. You'll want to include some lovely extracts in there to act as anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, soothing, or healing (not a claim!) ingredients. Join me tomorrow to customize this recipe for oily skin!
This herbal balm recipe offers relief from general aches and pains, arthritis, bursitis, and sore muscles.
For thrifty gifts this Christmas, I decided to make cocoa for several people on my list. Instead of buying glass containers, I saved my babys formula cans and peeled off the labels.
INTRODUCING ISSUE 12! So much is happening with the Darling Movement that we were inspired to center this new issue around the idea of a “spark.” What we mean is,…
Sewing is not terribly difficult, but there are some tips that you can use to make the process even easier. If you incorporate a number of these hacks and tricks into your sewing projects, you will be able to easily make what you need for yourself and everyone else in your family.
Welcome to the recipe card box! If you see a recipe you like, click on the card (it will open a larger image of the card), then right click and save it to your computer or print it directly from the screen. Silly Bee's Recipe Cards were featured on Tip Junkie's Executive Homemaker and One Pretty Thing! Thanks, friends!
the completed 'bored' jar! day forty three and i know a fair proportion of the world are having school holidays ... some for summer, some for term break, but regardless of holiday and no matter how prepared and excited you and the kids are during this time, every now and then parents get the "i'm bored, i don't know what to do" from their peeps! have no fear parents and caregivers, shayna from shaydes of life has a solution from her childhood ... the bored jar~! whenever a peep in her house uttered the phrase "i'm bored" they would have to go to the jar and do the activity they pulled out without whining, ifs, or buts! her mum put in lots of good stuff like have an ice cream, ride bikes for an hour, play with chalk, but there were also some nasties in their to discourage the use of the 'bored' phrase ... so if you did utter it, you took your chances on whether saying it was worth it! all the bits you need :) i thought this sounded like a great idea, its a great solution for a problem that sometimes (not often) rears its ugly head AND will prevent me from getting grumpy with the child who is bored! this ideas is pinned onto my home school projects board on pinterest. i grabbed a nice cheap, but cheerful jar from a local store and some attached some scrapbook letters to the outside. the inside is full of ideas some nasty, some fantastic, some so so :) i ended up with about fifty activities in the jar, some of them are below. some bored jar activities: make a sculpture out of pipe cleaners, vacuum upstairs, have a shower, make some cookies, clean the windows in two rooms, sweep the decks, make a house with lego, do some chalk drawings on the concrete, play hopscotch, watch a dvd, write a letter to send to a relative, make a sculpture out of 32 lego bricks, read the book closest to your bed for 40 minutes, make a hut in the forest, make a birthday card using stamps, wash the front of the kitchen cupboards, play top trumps, computer time for 40 minutes, build a fort in your bedroom using blankets, bake a cake to give to a friend, make a piece of art using only pasta, make four pompoms, ride your bike for an hour, paint a picture, tidy up the classroom, rake up the cabbage tree leaves, make a boat out of fruit and vegies that will float, write a list of 20 words being with D, make a puppet from a sock, etc take your chances with this jar! outcome: i think the kids are running scared, nobody has dared mentioned being bored! so from this, i can tell you the jar is a TOTAL success! its so funny, watching them look at the jar with weary eyes not knowing if this is going to be a good or a bad thing for them when they say that WORD THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED! i have also decided that when one is taken out i will replace it with a new one so they know that once its gone it may not reappear for a while and i am also going to put some seasonal ones in their (eg: swimming in the summer, inside activities for winter) may thanks to shayna from shaydes of life for blogging about her childhood and this wonderful idea to alleviate the boredom problem when it arises!
If your house is anything like most, you probably have a host of tea towels. But what makes a tea towel a tea towel?
Savor the season with these easy-to-download, free fall printables. Use budget-friendly DIY frames for instant autumn wall art!
