Well lovely readers, I don't know what got into me this week but I went on a major DIY Binge and made all sorts of stuff for our home. As I bask in the warm glow of my family's adoration (trust me, this will be short-lived) I thought I'd share what I did.
Lemon Sugar Body Scrub. Smells heavenly and works wonders on skin. I paid $1 for the sealable large=ish jar and the actual scrub cost me less than $3 for a lot of sugar scrub!
Cream cheese cinnamon sugar Sopapillas. Bad picture but scrumptious recipe I found on Pinterest. I'll post actual recipe and original poster on recipes page tomorrow. As you can see someone couldn't wait for the photo and ate some before I could get the bad pic I took anyway.
Homemade Body wash. I originally saw this on Pinterest as well but didn't like the ingredients so I searched the web and found a tip here, a tip there and came up with my own experimental variation which came out great. Cost about $4 for 1 and 1/2 gallons and it smells great.
Crock pot Chicken and Dumplings recipe which I found here:
http://www.polishthestars.com/2011/11/slow-cooker-chicken-dumplings.html. Easy, inexpensive and delicious recipe that my family loved. We added tiny grape side golden potatoes to ours.
Deciding that I might as well keep on while I was on a roll I made:
Homemade liquid laundry detergent. this was also a pinterest inspiration but I then did a little research and found a recipe I liked better on the web so i combined the two and came up with this. The consistency is good and the smell is fabulous. 7 gallons cost me $11.00. My husband is one happy camper about this one!
Last but not least came the Better Homes and Gardens recipe for Mexican Mac and Cheese with Sausage and Salsa. We added fresh cilantro, and Rotel tomatoes with lime. I served 7-Up Biscuits which my family adored. I got the recipe from a lovely blog at:
http://monstermama-monstermama.blogspot.com/2011/09/7up-biscuits.html The kids loved the process of
watching "helping" me use soda to make biscuits. And the buttery goodness made them a huge hit with everyone!
I'll post all of these recipes on our recipe page tomorrow but for now folks, I'm worn out. But satisfied! Until next time, Live and love well and do what makes you happy!
1 comment:
We're thinking in the same direction. I just posted on my blog some of my DIY Pinterest finds that I want to make soon.
Everything you made looks great. And I bet that scrub smells so delicious! I think we'll all be back to DIY soon enough. :-)
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