DIY

Sugar Scrub Recipe

What I love most about this is that it's all ingredients you have in your kitchen, so it's not expensive at all to make. It's very easy to make and within minutes you'll have yourself a great new scrub that makes your skin feel smooth. This is also great to give out as gifts. By sprucing up your jar with ribbon or even labels  this could be a wonderful frugal gift to give. I made these for my kiddos teachers and for a couple of family members over the years. They loved them. I hope you do too!

Warm Vanilla Sugar Scrub

 Vanilla Sugar Scrub
Source Adapted from: Petit Elefant
1/2 cup White Sugar
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Directions:
First step is to make sure that you have equal amounts of sugar. The amount varies depending on what size jar you are going to use for this scrub or how much scrub you want to make. All of these ingredients are completely up to you and so are the amounts. This is just what I've been using. For the vanilla it depends as well, depending on how much you like the smell because too much can over power your scrub.

1. Mix in both your sugars. You can mix it with a mixer, but to me that just seemed like too much. So I whisked it until both sugars were completely blended together.

2. Pour sugars in the jar that you will be using. Pat it down and then add in your olive oil. Now for me, the first time I made this I waited to let the oil seep through the sugar. Now that I make it every couple of months for the last couple of years I just pour the oil over the sugar and mix it together with a fork. But do whatever you feel comfortable doing.

3. Once oil is mixed then add in the vanilla and mix it as well with a fork. Now if you don't like vanilla you can use any other flavored extract or essential oil. But for the essential oils make sure you only add a couple of drops.

4. Cover with top and store away or add a bow of some sort and give as a gift. This would be a perfect gift to give to your kiddos teachers for Valentines since that's right around the corner. And best of all this is kid friendly, have your kids help with this, they'll have a ball!

Handmade Paper Packaging

Creating my own handmade bath line has it’s own set of challenges for the most part. I’m always researching receipes, materials, equipment and packaging. From price comparisons to which suppliers offers the best deals for all my crafting needs. Well, upon me searching for cute packaging for my bath bombs…I came across this AMAZING video on youtube called Soaping 101- which had this cute and ingenious idea to create your packaging for little to nothing. Don’t get me wrong I love saving money, but if I can create something that costs me next to nothing, then I’m on it. Not so much as being cheap, just finding different ways to save extra cash on things is my best bet at the moment.
Besides creating your packing is sooo much fun and it takes no time at all. With a few items I was well on my to creating something fun, easy and inexpensive. Want to see how easy it is to make your very own paper packaging…STAY TUNED!

First off your going to need a few items, nothing fancy.
SUPPLY LIST:
magazine/scrapbook paper
Gluestick/two-sided tape
Ruler
Pencil
Sisscors
Label (optional)
Told you nothing fancy, just a few items that you may have lying around the house. Recycle that old magazine and create some really awesome packaging that’s different, cute, budget friendly and easy to do- so easy, a child can do it. Let’s get started.

1. Fold your page in three’s so it looks like it’s even. You’ll want to create a seam

2. Take the ruler to score the edges down. Glue the sides together even the bottom. The top should be left open.

3. After you have glued the sides and bottom. With ruler trim about an inch off the bottom. (Don’t worry the glue has a pretty good seal to it so you won’t cut it open.)
Once, you’ve done that, add more glue and fold about an inch of the bottom to form a sealed bottom.

4. Your pouch should look like this. With the top open and trimmed.

5. This is your finished product! You can add a label on the front. That wasn’t so hard, now was it? You just created your very own paper pouch packaging. It looks classy and sleek and it didn’t take you all day.

You can create so many different looks with magazine paper, scrapbook paper. I fell in love with this idea and created a box full.

So don’t know what to do with those old magazines…RECYCLE THEM INTO SOMETHING FUN & USEFUL. The perfect way to wrap your all your holiday gifts or any gift that you want to make personal.
If you try this project, please share and let me know what you think of this project. Until next time, thank you for stopping by.
HAPPY CRAFTING!