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Homemade Lotion: Peppermint Whipped Body Butter. Today I excited to share my favorite DIY recipe to date. Two words: Homemade Lotion. Actually, I take that back. Let’s try FOUR words: Peppermint Whipped Body Butter. Mmmmmmm…. Yeah, that’s better The decadent, luxurious, DIY recipe of the year! This is also a perfect DIY gift, whether you’re looking for something for the holidays, Mother’s Day, birthdays, or “just because.”

Homemade Lotion: Peppermint Whipped Body Butter Ingredients: 1/2 cup coconut oil 1/2 cup cocoa butter (like this) 1/2 cup shea butter (like this) 1/2 cup sweet almond oil (like this) 1 tsp vitamin E oil (like this) 2 – 4 drops peppermint essential oils* (learn how to get my favorite essential oils at wholesale prices here.) Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. *NOTE: If you are making this whipped body butter for little bodies you may want to choose a different oil like lavender which is more highly recommended for small children. As with all homemade beauty products, make sure you follow these simple safety guidelines.

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If they go away or lighten up, they weren’t yours in the first place. Just return them to sender.Write out three things you are grateful for every single day. Gratitude is one of the greatest creators of happiness there is.Judgment is the biggest killer of happiness there is. Do one thing that makes YOU and YOUR BODY HAPPY every day. 9 Easy Money Earning Tips You Can Use Immediately in 2013. As we near the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 New Years resolutions are being made everywhere.

On top of most list are “save more money” or “make more money”. I’m a big believer in doing more with less so here’s some great tips on how you can save and make more money with very little effort. A lot of these suggestions in my list aren’t going to buy you a new Bently, but add them up over a year or even a lifetime and you start seeing all the extra money you may be leaving on the table. 1. Earn Free Gift Cards on Swagbucks.com Swagbucks is an awesome little site I discovered a while back that allows you to earn free gift cards for doing things online. You can check out my more in-depth review over here: Swagbucks Review 2. If you have extra time and want to earn some extra money they’re quite a few online companies that pay you for taking surveys. Here are a couple of my personal favorites: Only Cash Surveys - Many short surveys that pay $2 3. TopCashBack 4. CIT Bank – 1% Interest Rate. How to create a secret garden | Dan Pearson. You should never fear the small dark places.

As a child these were my favourite haunts: the hole in the hedge with its cave of branches and leaf litter, separated from sky and the goings-on of the outside world. There was also the microcosm of the moss gardens I made among the root plate of the beech tree. A small bowl of water, which collected in a cleft between the roots, reflected the canopy above and I imagined this was the watering point of something tiny that lived among the roots.

The moss was decorated with things found in the shade nearby: stones, beech mast, wood sorrel and primroses – giants in this imaginary landscape. The slivers of land that most of us have to contend with in cities are not so dissimilar. There are a few basic rules if you are working small. As for the plants, the same rules apply. Shade should never be seen as an issue – some of the most beautiful plants are adapted to cool places and the woodland floor. Dry shade is the most difficult of conditions. How To Clean and *SHINE* Your Microwave Without Cleaner. This is one of those ideas I have gone back and forth on whether I should post. First of all….I feel like EVERYONE already knows this “trick” to cleaning the microwave.

I’ve been doing it for YEARS. However, I didn’t discover it until I had been married for several years and had cleaned the microwave COUNTLESS times the “hard way”. And it really IS a super EASY and EFFECTIVE way to accomplish one of my LEAST favorite kitchen cleaning duties! So….I would HATE for anyone to suffer needlessly because they just happened to have been living under a rock and hadn’t heard of this!

;-) And then there’s the ADDITIONAL concern that ONCE AGAIN I must display my dirt to the world. This, my friends, is the type of “mental torture” I put myself through for you people! Well, obviously I decided that showing you my dirty microwave “served the greater good”….because there you are, looking at it on your computer (or phone, or whatever) right now. Wow. OK…now that I’m committed to posting this…here we go. Yogatailor.

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Beware of your words, they become your actions. Beware of your actions, they become your habits. Beware of your habits, they become your character. Beware of your character, it becomes your destiny. - Unknown I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. - Confucius A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. - Confucius I love deadlines. Life ?'s. Asking the right questions is the answer… It’s not the answers you get from others that will help you, but the questions you ask of yourself. Here are 40 thought-provoking questions to help you refresh and refocus your thinking: Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.

Also, check out our sister site, Thought Questions, for more photo-illustrated questions like these; and check out The Book of Questions if you’re interested in reading even more inspiring, thought-provoking questions.Title photo by: Helga Weber For all other photo credits please refer to ThoughtQuestions.com Related 40 Questions Everyone is Afraid to Ask Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. April 13, 2012 In "Aspirations" 40 Questions that Will Quiet Your Mind Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers … because asking the right questions is the answer. August 5, 2015 In "Happiness" 25 Photo-Illustrated Reminders to Help You Find Happiness. Dalai Lama. Fun fun fun fun - clikr. Enlightenment & The Power of Now - Global One TV. Buddism. Ghandi. The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes.

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