DIY Dry Shampoo For Both Light & Dark Hair
From Blossom Everyday, find this and many other tutorials and hints for style and beauty! This recipe for dry shampoo will save you A LOT of money on dry shampoo (that stuff can cost $5 for a tiny bottle!). Just store this mixture in an old plastic container or some prefer spice containers to place directly onto your head.
To make it more “your hair shade” add as little or as much cocoa powder as you need. Medium brunettes may not need as much as someone with dark hair. Experiment and enjoy!
Recipe: 2-Ingredient Pumpkin Cake with Apple Cider Glaze
Seriously, only 2-ingredients for the cake! You can’t go wrong. This is going to be a yearly recipe. Pin it so you can save it for years to come!
Ingredients:
Cake:
- 1 box of yellow cake mix
- 1 can (15 oz) of pumpkin puree
Glaze:
- 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
- 3 Tbsp apple cider
- 3/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Directions:
- Empty the contents of the boxed cake mix and pumpkin puree into a large bowl. Using a hand or stand mixer, beat until well mixed together. The batter will be very thick, but it will mix well.
- Pour batter into a greased 7 x 11 x 2 pan (the small rectangular pan). Bake at 350-degrees for 28 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. DO NOT OVER BAKE!
- Let cool for 5-10 minutes in the pan, then flip cake onto a plate. While waiting for the cake to cool in the pan, make the gaze.
- Combine powdered sugar, apple cider, and pumpkin pie spice. Glaze should be thick, but thin enough to pour. Add more sugar or apple cider to find the right consistency.
- Pour glaze over the cake while it’s still warm to allow it to harden onto the cake.
- Make more glaze or set aside some to pour onto each piece when served.
DIY Tiara of Queen Elsa from Frozen
Unless you live under a rock, you know of the amazing Disney movie, Frozen. It’s the hottest animated movie of all time and literally every Frozen-themed item is either completely sold out or being sold for 4 to 10x the original price. People are even upset they can’t buy beach towels! I’m here to help with that, at least a little bit. You can make a Queen Elsa of Arendelle tiara yourself in about half an hour and for about $10 (yay!).
What You’ll Need:
- Wax paper
- Hot glue gun (and LOTS of glue sticks)
- Metallic gold spray paint
- Blue, faceted aqua colored beads
- Wire cutters
- Floral wire
- Plastic hair piece comb
- Print the template
- Scissors
- Xacto Knife
- Optional: For easier versions, use felt or cardboard cut out instead of glue
Directions:
- Print out the PDF of the template from Instructables, then tape it to the back of some waxed paper. (For the easier felt versions, tape the template to some felt and trace it onto the felt by holding it up to a light source, or trace and cut out cardboard).
- Hot glue all over the stencil showing through the wax paper and put the comb into the bottom so it will be nice and strong. Try to complete a whole section at once so the glue will be even and not show layers.
- Once glue is cooled. cut it out using some sharp scissors to get really clean edges. Refine the shape with an Xacto knife to get sharp tips on the tiara,
- Once the crown is as you like, spray with gold spray paint.
- For the jewel, cut a length of wire that will reach from one side of the middle of the teardrop center to the other. Put the jewel on the wire and hot glue the wire to the tiara.
- Do your hair up like Queen Elsa on Coronation Day, and you’ve got yourself some happy kids!
Recipe: Candy Corn Poke Cake
Isn’t this SO CUTE!? The blog, Wine and Cake, has perfected this poke cake. I’ve seen it made by Taste of Home and Betty Crocker, but hers is by far the prettiest and easiest to make. Go over to her and say hi and thank you for the recipe!
Ingredients:
- 1 box of white cake mix, and all the ingredients necessary to make the cake included on the box (eggs, oil, etc.)
- food coloring (yellow & orange)
- 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- whipped topping (whipped cream in a tub)
- candy corn
Directions:
- Make the cake batter as directed and divide it into 3 equal parts in bowls: Color one yellow, one orange, and leave one uncolored. Make sure you add food coloring enough to make the cake layers really vibrant.
- Spray the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan. Spread the yellow layer evenly across the bottom, and then stick it in the freezer (make sure it is sitting flat) and leave it for 20 minutes.
- As soon as you pull it out, very carefully add the orange layer, pouring it as evenly as possible around the pan, and gently spreading it out to cover the yellow. Put the cake back in the freezer for another 20 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to the temperature on the cake mix.
- Take out the cake batter pan again, and carefully spread the white layer. Let it sit on top of the preheating oven for at least 30 minutes. Bake the cake according to package directions.
- As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, poke holes throughout the cake with the end of a wooden spoon. Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the cake, making sure to fill each hole.
- Refrigerate cake overnight, then top with whipped topping, candy corn, and enjoy!
Recipe: Low Calorie Dark Chocolate Pretzel Turtles
I love chocolate, and I love that dark chocolate is considered healthy (in moderate quantities, obviously). The magnesium alone is worth eating dark chocolate for. This recipe from Women’s Health Magazine is low in calories and fat, plus surprisingly has fiber and protein. It’s a really easy recipe, too. Note: Instead of regular mini pretzels, if you opt for gluten-free mini pretzels, these turtle treats will be 100% GF!)
Directions:
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray the paper with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a heatproof bowl, melt 22 dark chocolate kisses in 30 second increments in the microwave.
- Crumble 10 mini pretzels into pieces and gently fold into chocolate, along with 2 tablespoons dried currants.
- Drop 8 spoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheet. Sprinkle each with a pinch of sea salt.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.
MAKES 4 SERVINGS
Serving =2 turtles: 140 cal, 8 g fat (5 g sat), 22 g carbs, 120 mg sodium, 2 g fiber, 2 g protein