After watching this episode of Threadbanger,  I decided I needed to make some homemade lip balm.  I bought all of the necessities, bees wax, lip balm tubes, scented oil, the works.  That was a few months ago.  I finally decided to get off my rump and make some balm!

Here’s the recipe I used:

1 tablespoon of beeswax

2 tablespoons of some kind of oil.  In this case I used coconut oil.  You can either go out and buy some, or you can buy a coconut and extract some yourself!  Here’s a post where I made some coconut oil.

a few drops of an essential oil.  I didn’t use any for this batch because the only oil I had smelled like orange.

Here’s the tablespoon of wax and two tablespoons of oil.

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This post is all about coconuts.  A single coconut has multiple uses, and I’m going to show you just a few of them.  Okay, I lied.  I’m not going to talk about 101 different ways to use the same coconut.. I’m going to talk about four or five different ways.  That’s still a lot!

The first use! Coconut oil.  Here’s a bunch of pictures of when my mom taught me how to make coconut oil.

I apologize in advance for the not so great pictures.

Blurry picture of her cracking that sucker open.  She was moving pretty fast.

Mmm, this is a good coconut. Lots of meat.

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Well I’ve been very busy lately as most of you have probably noticed.. and so I just got on to upload some photos to stick up here for the world to see, but unfortunately I’m having camera troubles :(  My poor baby is acting up and I need to get it fixed.  Hopefully I can borrow a camera from someone tomorrow and upload a few things.  I have plenty of things to share, and as an effort not to have this point be very meaningless, I’ll list them for you guys so you know what to look for soon!

• pictures of my printmaking work
• lip gloss! yay
• probably some type of plushie
• a pinhole camera (which is already made, but I want to get the photos developed first)
• a purse I’ve been itching to make
• shoe recon
• and many more!

So there’s the list, for everyone to see.. I promise I’m not avoiding my blog because of a lack of ideas, it’s just a lack of time!!  If I don’t post anything tomorrow, I’ll definitely post on Saturday!

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Sorry for the lack of posts recently, school is wrapping up so I’ve been busy with random papers, projects, etc. Hopefully soon I can start to post on a regular schedule rather than so randomly. Anyway, I finally had a little time to craft, so I decided to make paper. Exciting!

Here are some pictures of my journey:

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I don’t have time to craft today because I have class ALL day.. so I thought I’d share another old craft. My friend had asked me to make a new shift boot for his car, and when he found the fabric he wanted, he handed me the fabric, which happened to be a bandanna, and the old shift boot, and I got to crafting.

They’re super simple to make.. it’s basically just two triangles sewed together. I can’t give a very specific tutorial unfortunately because not all shift boots are the same.

Here it is:

I hope to be able to make myself one for my new car… if I can get it! If I do, expect another shift boot post!

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