Soap with an aloe lotion base can soothe and cool the skin as it cleans. Adding some cream cheese frosting fragrance can only add to the appeal for your skin. Learn how to make your own within an hour here:: 12 Days of Christmas: Lotion Melt and Pour Cubes
Category Archives: Craft Ideas & How-To’s
Stocking Taped On the Chimney With Care
When you’re busy making other crafts and soap, you don’t have time to sew stockings for the holidays. Good ol’ duct tape is there for the rescue. With some tape and a pair of scissors, you can make fun decorative Christmas stockings in less than 15 minutes. Read the tutorial here:: Simple Duck Tape Stocking
One to Keep an Eye On
A new craft show is coming our way to give us a whole new avenue of crafting and how to’s before our eyes. It’s about paying it forward and blessing the lives of others. Enjoy!
This will be a great show from two ladies that I have learned a lot from. The great thing about it is that you will be able to see them work the crafts right in front of you, rather than just reading and looking at pictures on a blog. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine those in between steps on blogs…but with this new program you’ll see it all before your very eyes.
Read here for the full announcement: Craft If Forward With U Create
Take a look at the promotional video…
A Little Extract For You Today
A little vanilla bean extract does everybody a lot of good! Vanilla bean extract is so easy to make, and it’s incredibly tasty when made at home.
Here’s a simple recipe to use to always have it on hand. Transform any of your baked goods with this sweet goodness. A great taste from a simple formula. Doesn’t get better than that.
Read the full article here: Homemade Vanilla Extract
Fall Guy
I used to love the old TV show, The Fall Guy, with Lee Majors. He played a stunt man who was a part time bounty hunter. It was a lot of fun because he was always grabbing whatever was around him and using it to fight. It could be a chair, a pool stick, a pan, a cup…didn’t matter. If it wasn’t bolted down it was gonna be flying across the room and no time.
Fall is a great time for transitions…colors are changing, leaves are falling, nuts are dropping.
All of these things can be picked up an repurposed…there are so many little (and big! if you want) craft ideas you can do this year.
Take a look today at a few ideas we found for you.
Read the full article here: 21 Fall Crafts
A Lil DIY Elbow Grease
Who doesn’t love a little DIY to hack the system? Makes us feel accomplished…makes us feel like ninjas.
It can also save a life. What do I mean by that? Well, today’s DIY has to do with household cleaning products. If you’re like me, then you may be a little bit wary of certain cleaning products sold in the marketplace. A lot of them have harsh detergents; chemicals that aren’t all that friendly to us. Or perhaps we are simply allergic.
Today’s 12 DIY household cleaning products may be just the thing for you, then. Take a look and put a lil elbow grease into it.
Read the full article here: 12 Easy Household Cleaning Recipes
Maple Leaves On My Mind
Depending on where you live in the country, you may definitely have access to falling leaves still. Leaves can be quite beautiful, especially if preserved and later repurposed on gifts or as wrapping.
Take a moment to look at this method of leave preservation that you may find helpful and simple for this holiday season.
Read the full article here: Preserve Fall Leaves
Stay Sharp, My Friends!
Being the crafties that you are, I’m sure there are two things that you always have on hand: Your glue gun and your rotary blade.
I also bet that you not only have them on you, but you take care of them because these are the tools of your trade, er…craft.
Well, today we have a nice, simple way of caring for one of those weapons in your armament: the rotary blade.
Would you like it to last a bit longer than the norm? In other words, want to learn how to keep it sharp and cutting evenly for longer periods of time?
I’m sure you get tired of exchanging that blade out all the time…all because you want that sharp edge and precise cut. And you know as well as I do, changing out those blades costs a bit of money. Things can add up over time, especially when you have glue sticks to buy!
So what can you do? Well, a simple trick to keep that blade healthy and stealthily sharp. It follows the same concept as sharpening a knife. But instead of using an expensive sharpening tool, you have a simple and easy alternative (read: cheap) already in place at home.
What is it? A bit of tin foil.
Want to know what to do with it and how to use it? Well, take a look at today’s article.
Read the full article here: How to Sharpen Your Rotary Blade
Piggy Bank for the Little Munchkins
Even though Halloween is over now, this is still a great idea for the holiday season. We have for you today a little “piggy bank” that you can fill with your tyke’s favorite candies. You may want to repurpose this as a Christmas gift and fill it with some yummy candies for the little tykes in your midst.
Or who knows, maybe you don’t have to be so little to enjoy this one. You can have it filled with some awesome candies for your best friend and put a bow on it.
Anything you do, this one will be nice, and very easy to make.
Read the full article here: DIY Halloween Candy Jar
Make Your Little Guys Big Heroes With This Fun Craft
We loved seeing the movie Big Hero 6 over the weekend. It’s a lot of fun for the family with great jokes and a great message. Great for the kids and even adults (who I know!) that have the big kid inside of them.
C’mon, everybody loves a hero! And now, with this new craft, you can carry around your own Big Hero 6 in your pocket. We have a fun little craft you can do together with your loved ones. It’s really simple, and so you can give the joy of having your young ones create the majority of this on their own.
It’s a tin carrying case made out of an altoids case. Now, to go along with one of the running gags in the movie, this is purposed to carry bandages. But you can actually use it to carry anything, and the design will still carry through.
The supplies are very simple and easy to obtain. It will be a lot of fun to do with your younger girls and guys and they will certainly enjoy carrying this around in their own back packs. That’s another reason why I think you can repurpose it. Instead of just having it hold bandages, let them use it as a carrying case for almost anything (well, anything that will fit into the case).
So take a look at the full (and simple) article, and have fun together.
Read the full article here: Big Hero 6 Craft: Baymax Bandage Tin