Home Made Lip Balm

Okay, so I recently had two of my little cousins come for a sleepover recently and as anyone with kids or younger family will know they need entertaining 24/7 

So when they arrived I had set up a little area to make lip balm/lip gloss. I had seen things like this over the years on Pinterest, blogs and magazines so I thought it would be fun to I've it a go! 

Ingredients:

Vaseline

Flavour Aid/Kool Aid (or similar powdered drink) (you will find it online or in the around the world food isle at your supermarket!) 

Water

Tubs (to put it in when done)

I also bought a strawberry jelly crystals to give that a try if the Flavour Aid didn't work!

Method:

Microwave Vaseline until runny, then store in hot water (supervise kids) 

Mix Flavour Aid/Kool Aid with water (think of this like icing sugar, less is more) 

Spoon melted Vaseline into the single tubs

Add a few spoons of Flavour Aid paste and mix  

Once it's in the pots pop it in the fridge for a little while so the Vaseline solids up! 

Then it's ready! Give it to your girls to pop on their lips to give them a try! I used the cherry Flavour Aid and it tastes delicious on your lips!! And even gives them a bit of colour! 💋

The girls really enjoyed making it anyway! I finished the night making jelly and angel delight with them and then we did storm painting! Safe to say I had won them out by the end of the day! 

DIY V Day

Okay so I've always been one of the haters of Valentine’s Day but as I feel society forces it upon you I do feel the need to partake in the giving of gifts. I haven’t always been this way because as a child I used to hand make my ‘daddy’ cards and gifts and he in turn would always get me a card and a small gift. But as you get older and you get a replacement for ‘daddy’ in my case, you learn the value of money when you have to buy a £2.50 card from Clinton's and add that to a box of £10 Thornton’s chocolates and a £10 me to you teddy and the endless list that can continue, it gets a tad expensive and in my opinion unnecessary. You are supposed to show your love not how much money you've got. 

So, this year I have opted for the ‘homemade’ gifts of the past, with a small sentimental bought gift. Below shows my homemade gifts, the first one shows a salt dough tile which I made when two of my young cousins came for a sleepover. I used a square of salt dough (made with two parts flour and one part salt) flattened it out and used a stamp (usually used to print the message into toast) and then microwaved it to harden it. This can also be done in the oven, just keep your eye on it when in the microwave as it can set on fire! 

The second gift was one I came across for like a DIY kit for a friend or colleague for like a jokey hangover kit. This one I have put together though is a bit more ‘soppy’. I have given it the title ‘’A Little Bag of All the Things We Need’’ I think this would also be a nice personal touch for things like a wedding gift adding items such as; ‘A Penny, so you will never be poor. A horse shoe, to always bring you luck.’ Etc. Mine contains all the items shown on the card in the image, these can be switched and changed for all your own personal jokes or sentiments I used things that I found around the house and things that made me laugh, (the screw in particular) Hope this helps for any struggling ideas you may have had! X