Spring Has Sprung - DIY

I'm back again with yet another Spring post. In todays Spring Has Sprung post, I am going to be giving you DIY inspiration for this season.

Yarn Ornaments-

I tried this DIY out twice and failed twice. With my first method, I forgot to add vaseline and on the second, the sugar water didn't really work. Anyway, I have a great tutorial for you to try out here which you can try out and hopefully do a little better than me.

Bulb/Milkbottle Vase-

I saw this on pinterest and thought it was the cutest thing, so creative. I have these little milkbottles that I put some flowers in and they turned out really well.

Mason Jar Lights-

I took a picture of fairy lights in a jar as inspiration. I put some of my own fairy lights in a jar and then lit it up and I love it. Something else you could do is paint little things on the mason jars (mine didn't turn out too good).

This post is part of a little blogger series I'm taking part in called the "secret blogger project 2015" run by teen bloggers Emily ,Rebekka and Charlotte. About 30 of us will be writing twice a week on selected little lifestyle topics and you can also go onto the twitter and instagram hashtag "#secretbp2015" to have a little chat and view everyone's posts. If you would like to join or know more (we'd love to have you!)  Instagram dm @theperks0fbeingemily or if you don't have instagram, send a quick email to  rebekkarosebeautyxo@gmail.com! xxx

I hope you've enjoyed this little series of mine, I really enjoyed making it. I will hopefully be doing one for Summer in a few months too. 

Emily

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DIY Lush Lip Scrub

I read a Pinterest post recently (I am very much in love with Pinterest recently) on a DIY of the Lush Bubblegum Lip Scrub. I thought I would try it out myself and show you guys how to do it too.

Total for Lush Lip Scrub - £4.75

DIY Lip Scrub - £0 (I just used things I found around the house, so it was totally free for me)

You Will Need-

Caster Sugar

Oil (I used Olive)

Food Colouring

A Container - I used this one from a travel kit, but you can easily use a make-up pot, I was surprised how easy it is to get hold of a container.

You can also add flavor etc., you can totally customise to how you like it.

You basically just add it all together and mix it, then put it into the container.

This was so easy to do and so cheap compared to the Lush Lip Scrub. Make sure to let me know if you try this out too.

Emily

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Useful Links-

The Original Post

My DIY Bath Bomb Post

DIY Bath Bombs

Hi readers, I know I have been quite inactive recently because of my picture problem (read my last post but one to see more) but I now have two quite different posts for you (almost) ready to read. So this first one is DIY Bath Bombs. Today I decided to try out some DIY bath bombs and I think it was rather successful and super easy. So for today's post I thought I would talk you through the method etc. of the whole thing.

For the bath bombs you need-

Bicardonate of soda

Cream of tartar

Oil (I used olive)

Food colouring

Your favourite skin oil/s

Spray bottle with water

Way of moulding/storing (e.g. ice cube tray works best).

I didn't really stick too much to measurements as I didb't have enough of the ingredients to suit the recipe.

You basically add the bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, oils, and food colouring together and mix it together. You then spray the water as many times as it gets to a sand consistency. The consistency of sand castle sand (you cant build a sand castle with dry sand - it needs to be sticky).

Then I just put the bath bombs in the ice cub moulds. Personally I think its best to do this five minutes before your bath, and then just putting the mixture in un moulding. Personally, I found that the moulding was a bit off a "ffaff" around.

A little note with the food colouring, for me, the colour of the water was much stronger than the colour of the bath bomb so just be aware that your baby pink bath bombs might turn out to have a neon bath tub water.

I did this with my nieces as I thought it was a nice little activity to do this afternoon. They thoroughly enjoyed it and thought the fizzing that they made was "magic".

I feel like a lot of people on pinterest are starting to do this and I now can see why. Its really cheap compared to lush and you get the "handmade" feeling (not that Lush isn't handmade).

I hope you enjoyed this little bit of a different post. I hope to do more of these type of posts soon. Let me know if you try these bath bombs!

Emi

Useful Links-

Original "recipe"

Bloglovin'

A good video I found that explained it well

My last post

Christmas Treats - Blogmas Day 17

Today, I tried out some of Zalfies Christmas Treats and I thought I would give like a "first impressions" type of thing. You probably won't understand half the things I'm babbling on about here if you haven't watched this video.

I firstly made the candy cane lolly pops. I couldn't find any lolly-pop sticks so I decided to use another candy cane instead. This did make it a little harder to eat but I think it did look a bit cuter. Personally, I don't think you had to wait for the white chocolate to cool, it was fine straight after melting for me. I didn't try these myself, as I don't like candy canes but for the people who I gave them to, they really enjoyed them. I think these are a really cute little treat to give to friends around Christmas time.

Next, I tried out the melting snowman biscuit. These are the cutest, easiest and enjoyable to make. It is really simple. One thing I would say is that adding the arms and buttons onto the icing was quite tricky though, but done with extra thick icing or hardened icing. These were the cutest thing to make with friends and would recommend to anyone to try out.

I hope you enjoyed this post, I have found that since the 12th of December, Blogmas has been harder. I think its just because everything else has been super busy, that its just harder to get a good quality post up.

Emi