• 7 things to make with your kids this week.

    Looking for some tried and true craft projects to do with your kids? Here are seven of our favorite kids crafts to add to your must-do list. We are officially one week into our 100 Day Project and about 9 days into social distancing slash voluntary quarantining due to COVID-19. To say that we’ve been needing something positive to focus our energy on is an understatement. Which is why this project has been a godsend this first week. We’ve made some amazing craft projects already and are looking forward to what the next week holds. All of the craft projects…

  • Coconut + Olive Oil Hot Process Soap

    I have been wanting to make my own soaps for at least a decade, but was terrified of using lye. So I moved onto other things, like lip balm and hand bound books, and placed my dreams of soap making on the back burner. That is, until this past summer when I began looking for things to do during #the100dayproject and came across a few hot process soap recipes. They looked easy enough and even had VIDEOS showing what it looked like when adding lye to water. So I invited a friend over while Anna was at school to make…

  • Chamomile + Castile Face Wash

    I have always had a hard time finding products for my face that don’t irritate it, cause me to break out like crazy, or feel like I have ten pounds of product slathered all over it. I barely wear makeup — preferring mascara and eyeliner to everything else — because I hate the way it feels on my face. So when the time came to actually wear make-up for my wedding, I was super nervous because I was afraid of how it would feel all day long and then how irritated my skin would feel after. When I said something to the…

  • DIY Foaming Hand Soap

    I don’t remember what got me onto the homemade bath and beauty product bandwagon, but I am on it hardcore. I’ve made lip balms and lip gloss galore, shampoo bars, apple cider vinegar rinse for my hair, make-up remover, home made deodorant, and even oil diffuser refills for our bedroom and bathrooms. But my very first foray into making my own products? Foaming hand soap. Anna loves when we make our own foaming hand soap because she gets to measure and pour the ingredients into our jar (always a favorite activity for her). She also gets to choose her scent…

  • Making Faces Has Never Been This Easy

    This portrait drawing project started out as a Father’s Day craft and has morphed into one of our favorite drawing exercises. We’ve done close to 20 of them between us and each one we create is our new favorite. I’m not sure what it is about having a blank face that inspires creativity for us, but it does. There are so many ways to create hair, clothing, and faces AND we get to use a variety of different materials like scrapbooking paper, colored paper, crayons, markers, and stickers. Literally everything is up for grabs with these. Our first few portraits…

  • Chocolate Lip Balm

    Today I learned that I only have to say one word to my child to get her on board with whatever I want to do. And that word, my friends, is chocolate. Especially when it comes to making lip balm. I kind of figured that after our home run with crayon lip gloss that any lip gloss or lip balm that I wanted to make would be an easy yes. Turns out it was only a yes because it was tinted. As in, like lip stick. So when I suggested we make a plain old lip balm (sans tint), it…

  • DIY Eye Make-up Remover

    Ever since I purchased a big bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Castille Soap*, I’ve been looking for things to make with it. So far, it’s been a lot of foaming hand soap and not much else. That is, until I realized that I was running dangerously low on eye make-up remover. Enter in the quest to find a DIY version that would be gentle on my skin and still effective in taking off my eye make-up. The first few (dozen) recipes that I found online all contained witch hazel. Not knowing if I had any on hand, I kept scouring. I…