Easy Homemade 3-Ingredient Vanilla Coconut Body Scrub
This time of the year, our skin is so dry and flaky. Why spend $30 or more on a body scrub from The Body Shop or other retailer when you can make it at home with only 3 ingredients for pennies and in only a couple of minutes. Oh, and it smells like summer. BLISS!
What You’ll Need:
- 1/2 cup solid coconut oil
- 1 cup white sugar
- Seeds from 1 vanilla pod
Directions:
- Use your whisk attachment on your mixer and whip 1/2 cup solid coconut oil for about 10 minutes. Be sure to stop to scrape down the sides after 5 minutes.
- Add 1 cup white sugar and the seeds from 1 vanilla pod. Mix for another 1-2 minutes.
- Transfer to an air tight container until ready for use.
Smells so good! You’ll love it. Thanks to Wonky Wonderful for the recipe!
Recipe: South of the Border Guacamole
So, Cinco de Mayo is almost over, but guacamole with tortilla chips is something you can eat year round! My family eats it at least biweekly – and avocados are so high potassium and good fats that it makes it seem like we are eating a healthy food, too! Here’s one of the highest rated guacamole recipes on the internet and it’s a copycat of South of the Border Restaurant’s version.
Ingredients:
- 2 large ripe Avocados
- 1 medium Tomato, chopped
- 1 Green Onion, chopped
- 2 Green Chile Peppers, seeded and chopped
- 1/8 tsp. Black Pepper
- 3 Tbsp. Lemon Juice
Instructions:
- Chop avocados coarsely and mash until smooth.
- Add tomato, onion and chiles and mix gently. Add pepper and lemon juice. Stir.
- Cover tightly with plastic wrap until ready to serve. Serve with your favorite tortilla chips.
DIY Eggshell Votive Candles
Happy Easter!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful day with their families! Use those leftover Easter eggs on this cute craft. Save those hard boiled eggs for tomorrow by putting them back in the refrigerator. I’ll be sharing the highest rated egg salad recipe on the whole internet!
What you need:
- eggshells
- paper towel
- soy candle wax
- candle wick with metal tab
- hot glue gun
- double boil sauce pan
- wooden skewers
Directions:
- Crack open dyed hard boiled egg at the pointed end and break the shell down 1/3 (leaving about 2/3 of the shell behind) and take the egg out, placing in a container to be stored in refrigerator.
- Carefully rinse the inside of the egg to be used as a votive. Allow to air dry on a paper towel.
- Cut a piece of wick to about 10 cm in length and thread it through your metal tab.
- Secure the metal tab & wick to the bottom of the eggshell using a hot glue gun.
- Tie the pieces of wick to a wooden skewer to keep the wick out of the wax.
- Place your soy candle wax into a Pyrex jug (or a double boiler saucepan).
- Place jug in boiling water on the stove and wait until it melts. It will become clear when it’s ready. Take it off the heat as soon as it has melted.
- Pour the melted wax into the eggshells as carefully as possible.
- Leave your eggshell candles to dry for a few hours. Once the wax is hard you can remove the wooden skewers and trim the wick.
- You can place the eggshell votive candle holders or any other decorative holder. These would also be great to save for gifts for next spring/Easter!
Recipe: Easy Easter Marshmallow Bark
Isn’t this the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? You won’t believe how easy it is to make either. Butter, with a side of Bread is an awesome blog with a ton of easy to make and delicious recipes. You NEED to check her out over there. It also has the visual tutorial of how she made this marshmallow bark.
DIY Plastic Easter Egg Wreath
This wreath was featured on the Good Housekeeping website and for good reason. Isn’t it super cute? It’s incredibly simple and inexpensive, too. You can do so many things to this to make it more uniquely yours. You can use a premade bow, make the hanging ribbon the decorative bow and hanger in one, not use a ribbon at all, different kinds of decorative eggs, add washi tape or spray glitter to decorate the plastic eggs, glue in plastic Easter grass or flowers, add a bunny or a message to it – The possibilities are endless. Or you can leave it just like this and it’s perfect!
What You’ll Need:
- Styrofoam wreath form (or cut a wreath shape from a strong piece of cardboard)
- Long, and wide ribbon (for hanging and decorative bow, so buy a full roll of ribbon, preferably with wire)
- 4-5 bags of plastic eggs (your choice of colors & sizes: pastel, brightly colored, etc.)
- Hot glue gun with many hot glue sticks
- Craft glue (like Elmer’s)
- Optional: Ribbon or fabric to cover styrofoam wreath prior to applying eggs
Note: You will want to buy too many eggs at one time at the same store. This will assure that you do not run out mid-craft and have to buy more. If that happens, you run the risk of having use a different size and different shade of eggs to continue the wreath.
Directions:
- This first step is optional: The white of the styrofoam will show through between the plastic eggs, so if this will bother you, glue ribbon or fabric of your choice around the styrofoam fully.
- Open all the bags of eggs, open them, and glue them closed using craft glue so they stay closed.
- Decorating only the parts that will be visible (meaning so it can lie flat against the wall or door), draw a long line of hot glue down each egg then sticking to the styrofoam form. You’ll want to move fast so it doesn’t cool before you stick it to the wreath. If you can predict where you will place the next egg, place some hot glue onto the egg where it will touch other eggs before placement. This will help with the strength and stability of your wreath.
- Glue each consecutive egg like shown in the picture, without the same color touching (if you can help it) and as close together as possible so the least amount of the base shows under the eggs.
- Once finished, hold up and make sure that there aren’t any eggs that are loose and need more securing.
- To finish, create a bow of your choice (if you aren’t sure how, just Google a tutorial), and hot glue it on where you would like. Then cut a long piece of ribbon, tie into a knot, hide the knot behind the wreath, then hang by the ribbon.