DIY Pallet Bookshelf

I have been wanting to do this project for quite some time now, but finding pallets proved to be a lot harder than I expected.  Mike spotted one outside our apartment dumpster one day, and with the help of the maintenance man's go-cart, Mike and I put this bookshelf together in about 20 min.  Thanks to my babes who nailed and sawed the boards for me.  I LOVE how it turned out—hip bookshelf for B's books, and it cost me: $0!!

 Mike and I finally got his small one in his room off the floor, much better, now he can stand and reach his books. 

DIY Anthropology Ribbon Bobby Pins

Instructions found here:

http://www.henryhappened.com/diy-anthropologie-ribbon-bobby-pins.html

*I glued mine with a hot glue gun which was a lot faster, but the EZ600 worked as well.

You can buy these at Anthropology for $30 or make your own in 10min for a dollar.

DIY Bath Salts

So easy and cheap. Find the recipe here: http://www.intimateweddings.com/blog/bath-salts-recipe-diy-wedding-shower-favors/

I put mine in some empty Voss water bottles—$5 for six bottles at TJ Max

DIY Frame Earring Display

Simple, beautiful, and organized: Frame earring display. Take an old frame (you can find a cheap one at the dollar store or Walmart) and either paint it and distress it or leave as is. Remove backing and glass and take picture wire and either staple sides with a staple gun or I used small nails. Be careful if you use nails, as you can see I accidentally hammered too hard on one side and the nail nearly went through. You can stand in your bathroom closet or even hang on your wall to free up space.

DIY Lemon Sugar Scrub

So easy—simply stir together sugar, olive oil, and lemon essential oil—yet it is the best treatment for your hands!!

I made these for a group of friends who came over for Game Night. I used empty baby food jars I had and cut some bamboo skewers for them to stir the product.

DIY Quiet Book

I loved the quiet books my mom made us when we were kids. I wanted so desperately to make one for Beckahm and with the help of my mom we finally completed it. We started before Becks was born, and because she lives out of state we didn't finish it till he was about 5 Months. I never knew how hard these books were to make (tedious is a better word); I have vowed to never make one, ever again! :)

Quiet Book Source:

http://servingpinklemonade.blogspot.com/2011/01/quiet-book-templates.html

These next two pages I came up with for Becks because he LOVES tags, ribbons/string, and feeling different textures of material

Baking

I have been baking the past two days for two reasons: 1) to help the YW in my ward raise money for YW camp, and 2) to send in a care pkg I made my sister who is near to her due date with TWINS!

It was a lot of time spent in the kitchen but it was well worth it, everything turned out sinfully delish. I ended up making four different goodies:

Samoa's (like the Samoa girls scout cookies), peanut butter and chocolate with yellow cake mix bars, chocolate dipped oreos, and carmelitas.

These are the ones I made for the YW camp auction. YUM!!!

For my sisters "perfect day" pkg, I filled up a mason jar (great thing about the mason jar is she can use it for storing other things) with some daily necessities like mini altoids, Advil, a pack of gum, hand sanitizer, lip balm, kleenex, a mini box of chocolates, some other small goodies I managed to squeeze in there, and a pen because she is always making liView Blogsts. I also attached a magnetic shopping list to the outside with some cute "you amaze me" ribbon, and secured it to the back with a clothespin. Here is the finished product. Pretty cute I'd say!

I packaged the chocolate dipped oreos in a cute brown and pink box with some vintage tissue paper and used these cute bird stickers I found for some added decor on the outside.

After adding the decadent desserts I filled the box with popcorn in place of packing material, 1) because she loves it, 2) it is a lot cheaper, 3) what a cute idea!!

Voila—pkg ready to ship!!

DIY Old Frame Used As A Vanity

All of my cool, old frames are in storage so I went to the .99 store and found this silver frame. I put a black and white photo from an old NYC calendar I already had, in the frame and added some film scrapbooking ribbon around the edges. Then I added the letters "B-A-T-H" (another scrapbooking supply I had on hand) to the glass for some extra decor.

This now serves as my vanity to store away in my bathroom closet—keeping things neat, organized, easily accessible.

(I used a baby food jar to store the makeup brushes that I use on a daily basis, bobby pins, and elastic hair bands).