100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of all time!) 1. Remember, y'all, it’s all about the prep. Take away the stress by doing the prep the night or day before. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 25 Amazing DIY Gift Ideas I love the season of giving! Not only does it seem to bring out the best in most people, but it also means I get to have some fun making my favorite DIY gifts. And today I’m really excited 25 fun ideas for you. I’ve included both personal products and simple edible eats that would be fun to share with your neighbors and friends. Everything here is natural, healthy, and awesome. No returns here! DIY Gifts: Personal Care & Home This Peppermint Whipped Body Butter is my all time favorite diy gift. Here are my other favorite diy homemade gifts: Homemade Bath Salts from Primally Inspired Beach Body Polish from The Nourished Life Coconut Oil Salt Scrub from The Coconut Mama Chocolate Mint Lip Balm from Homemade Mommy Vanilla Bean Body Butter from Primally Inspired Honey Lavender Bath Melts from Happy Money Saver Whipped Coconut Oil from Primally Inspired Orange Chocolate Whipped Body Butter from The Coconut Mama Lemon Honey Sugar Scrub from Homemade Mommy Wool Dryer Balls from Healthy Living How To
Access Consciousness pH Balanced Shampoo Recipe pH Balanced Shampoo Recipe UPDATE: (Mar. 2015) I get a LOT of questions about this recipe. Some people love what it does for their hair. Other try waiting through the detox and still can’t get results they love. I wish I had the answer, but natural hair care is tricky. My all natural shampoo recipe is one of my more popular posts. Especially when one of YOU guys helped me see the better solution. My original shampoo recipe, like so many out there online, uses a base of castile soap. Luckily, there are more options. The comment that helped my poor little scalp Some months ago I got a comment from a reader named Amanda on my shampoo recipe. Why restoring your scalp’s pH is important I did a little research and found some amazing information on the importance of proper pH for your scalp. Your scalp, like your skin, ranges in pH between a 4 and 7. Liquid castile soap (like Dr. A Natural pH balanced Shampoo Recipe But what I didn’t love was the short-term supply of the recipe. Fear not! Directions
Happiness Tips :: Happiness Is Just a Choice Ask ‘who does this belong to’ for every unhappy thought. Realize that 98% of your thoughts, feelings, and judgments are not yours, as are 98% of your feelings of unhappiness. They are something you are aware of. 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. All Natural Deep Conditioner with Coconut Cream People are really interested in all natural care products. I’ve had a lot of great questions about my natural lathering shampoo recipe. And several people have wondered the best treatments for colored or chlorine damaged hair. That’s why I’m happy to give you guys this awesome little recipe: An all natural deep conditioner for your hair using coconut cream! Behold the power of saturated fats If you’ve been around this blog for a while you already know that I love to include a lot of saturated fats in my diet (from real, clean food). Due to its high content of saturated fat, coconut is an excellent emulsifier to restore damaged hair. Coconut Cream Hair Rinse: An all natural deep conditioner Ingredients: 1/2 cup fresh coarsely grated coconut meat* 1/2 cup fresh coconut milk (like this) 2 teaspoons raw honey 1 fresh vanilla bean, cut into small pieces (optional, but really heavenly) *Fresh coconut is always going to give superior results. Directions: 1. (Image sources 1, 2)
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”. 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. I do feel compelled to tell you though, my microwave rarely looks THIS bad. Wow. OK…now that I’m committed to posting this…here we go. But that’s not all! (HELP! WOW!
Book - Theres a battle of two wolves inside us&all Awesome Quotes Beware of your thoughts, they become your words. Beware of your words, they become your actions. Beware of your actions, they become your habits. 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. 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 Happiness is the highest level of success.