Oatmeal Cookies & Milk Bath

As I've said before, I am not a crafty person but I want to be crafty.  I found this on The Motherload and instantly thought, "I can do that!"  So, if you are looking for a thoughtful, homemade gift, here you go:

Oatmeal Cookies & Milk Bath

1 cup cornstarch

2 cups powdered milk

1/2 cup otameal (not instant)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions:  Mix all ingredients together in blender or food processor until it is a fine powder.  Add 2 Tbsps of the mixture to your bath.



Here's what I started with:

I put everything in a food processor and then transferred them over to jars.

I had to go back and buy more powdered milk.  The recipe above fills 1 full and about 1/3 of another jar.  For 8 jars it was about $25. 

Approximately $7.00 for 12 jars

$3.00 for 3 boxes of corn starch at Wal-Mart

Approximately $4.00 for the first box of powdered milk which only had 3 cups total of milk.  Another $6.00 for another 8 cups

$3.00 for a container of oats

I already had the cinnamon

I found these ornaments at Wal-Mart for $1.00 each.  The ribbon was 2 rolls of 25 feet for $5. 

I printed printed off the labels from Microsoft Office.

Easy gift!

JOY Printable Alphabet Photography

Do any of you follow Jessica from Craftily Ever After?  If not, you really should.  She is so generous with her printables.  Today she posted an Alphabet Photography Printable that spells out JOY.  Love it!

Picture from Craftily Ever After

She also has an Etsy shop where she can personalize any word.

You can check that out HERE.

Believe Banner Tutorial

Earlier in the week I found this wonderful blog, At Second Street, where the Kalleen had created a Believe Banner.  She so graciously gave all of the letters out to be printed. 

I thought that this looked like a project that I could actually do so I decided to give it a try.

First, I followed the instructions from At Second Street and sent them off to Walgreens.  The total was about $6.00.

Here are the cards that I got from Walgreens.  I wish that I would have printed them at 5x7.  These are turned the wrong way so each letter is around 3x4 (give or take). 

Here's what I started with:  1 roll of ribbon, a small little ruler, and an exacto knife.

I measured the card to see how much I needed to cut off.

I cut the edges so that they were all somewhat even.

I started out trying to measure it and then I just eye-balled it.  If I have to think too much while being creative then there is really no fun in it!

Next, I held the ribbon up to the card to get an idea where to make the slit. 

My ribbon was 2" so I tried to go just a bit over that so I knew that it would fit through the hole.  I used the longest straight side of the ruler so that I wouldn't run my exacto knife off of the page.  I cut a hole in each side of the card.

I then took the ribbon through the back of each card.  

This is what it looked like all strung together.

I hung it up on the mirror in my downstairs bathroom.

I cannot thank Kalleen enough for this inspiration.  Please go check out her site.

This project took me about 15 minutes from start to finish.  It was so easy and I am so glad that I didn't stress out about having the exact measurements.  Love it!

Plop Plops for Gracie

Gracie loves to wear "plop-plops".  I went to Hobby Lobby the other day and decided to try to make her some cute ones for her birthday party/4th of July.  Not too bad for the 1st time.