Best "new" lip balm in the world! The Great Wax bee

I stumbled upon the most amazing little lip balm  and felt the need to share.  Made in Vermont, you can find and purchase at the local general store but alas, you don't have to drive yourself over here you can order on-line too! 

Best Lip Balm I've found so far... and it's available on-line

If you are shopping around for a great little lip balm during these cold dreary months.  Look no further than The Great Wax Bee.  While you can pick this up at our Local general store in Vermont, if you don't want to take the drive, it's ok! you can order on-line. 

She's So Crafty DIY Wine Glass Project

This past week I was on a Stay-cation and did many silly things to keep me occupied.  One awesome project was hand painting wine glasses.  The glasses were $1.00 each as the Dollar store and the Paint I picked up at Michael's with a gift card I had.

You need to look for the wine glass on the label - see above.  These bottles cost about $1.50 to $2.00 each.

Use a surface you don't mind getting paint on ~ I used a Pizza box ( I seem to have alot of those in my house..don't judge).

Paint as desired and wait for the color's to dry before moving on to a new color on the glass unless you want to encourage "bleeding" from color to color.  

Once you have painted your glasses put them on a shallow cookie sheet and place in a Cold Oven, set the temp for 350 degrees and timer for 30 minutes.  The color will lighten a bit.

Once the 30 minutes are up, take them out of the oven and let them cool completely before handling.  You can add additional color and "re-cook" for layers but try to keep the paint thinner so it doesn't just chunk off.

I love my new glasses and have been using them for everything under the sun like Juice for breakfast, soda and water etc.  Do you have any crafts that you would like to share? please comment or link below.

Bathroom Bomb, Bombed!

Hello Beautiful Friends:

 

I had the wonderful idea to make small gifts for my friends and researched to find the perfect little homemade thing...Bath bombs.  I wasn't able to get the ingredients together in enough time to put them together before the Christmas Holiday but did have time over the break to get them together for little gifts for the New Year...and they were a disaster.  What a huge mistake! I was so nervous about adding too much water that I didn't add enough so when they dried, they didn't stay together.  Right now I have yummy smelling sand. 

This is what they looked like drying in the pan...Funny Story ~ my husband walked through the kitchen and saw these sitting on the counter and licked them... I laughed so hard I cried and fell off the couch.  He clearly wasn't listening to me when I told him what I was doing and to not touch them on the counter....serves him right!  At least his breathe smelled nice for the rest of the day!

 

What I did end up making were quilts for my son and his friend who is staying with us. 

 

 Did you make gifts this year? if so how did they come out?  send me a pick and comment

 

Happy New Year! 

DIY Bath Bombs for Holiday gifts

I’ve been seeing recipes; you tube videos and blogs about making your own bath bombs.  Since funds are pretty tight lately, I decided to do a little research on the costs and level of difficulty in making said bombs.   I found several helpful sites to assist:

Cool site 1

Cool Site 2

 

You Tube Videos:

Watch a Youtube Video 1

 

Watch another video here

Watch a bomb in action

We are expecting some pretty hefty snow flurries over this weekend and guess what I am planning on doing instead of going outside? you guessed it.  I had planned on posting what I've made so far and realized that by doing that would ruin my Christmas surprise to my friends and family that will be receiving homemade bombs this year.

What crafts do you put together for the holiday season, post pic's and share stories below. Happy Holidays!