Homemade.

my friend gave me 2 pounds of lavender...
naturally a lavender shop opened up in my kitchen one morning.
my original plan was to make just soap.
but then it got fun & easy. so i started to explore a few more lavender recipes.
i made bath bombs, soap balls, & this other coconut oil mixture thing...we'll call it lavender squares.

so easy. you guys so easy.
fun activity to do with your friends, your kids, or in my case by yourself.
i turned on the food network for some background noise and went to work.
okay side-note...i LOVE barefoot contessa. i want to be her. i want her house & her skills & to have her soft voice. i have a loud voice, but i want a soft voice. a voice where people want to listen to you.

recipe for soap here
recipe for bath bombs here
recipe for bath melts here 
recipe for soap balls here

because these diy lavender soap party (by myself) was so fun i'm going to explore with some lavender salt & sugar scrubs!

i decided to venture out and add a little oatmeal to some of my soaps.
a little oatmeal never hurt anyone.

it was a little odd grading soap.
it looked like cheese.
it was weird & fun.

going a little mixin. coconut oil with shea butter. 

since i'm on a homemade DIY kick...i whipped up some kneader's french toast (knock off style).
oh and you have to make the caramel syrup to get the full effect.
it's a total fatty breakfast BUT it takes me back to my UT days.
gosh i miss lunch places...there are no TX lunch cafes...you know what i'm talking about...no zupas, no hawaiian time, no kneaders, no cafe rio, none of those type places in TX...and i don't like counting panera bread. sorry.

pippa just stared at us the whole time while we ate our scrumptious breakfast.

putting my very own milk glass to use! told ya it would be worth $5. 

the caramel syrup was so flippin hot i thought it was going to break the glass.
mr. picked up a mitt to pour his syrup... it made me laugh.

every time you eat ANYTHING.
pippa gives us that face.
you know that face?
that face that's so desperate & CUTE.
i always get suckered into giving her a little bite.
andrew says i give in way to easily.

she just gets you every time.
every. single. time.
BECAUSE
she was born with a "sad face"

in the end those puppy dog eyes won the bacon over.

A Friends Christmas.

last week before we all left to our various homes for christmas we had ourselves a little christmas dinner and ugly sweater party. well only three people wore ugly sweaters.
so that part of the party was a bust.
everyone brought a dish.

we ate dinner at candle light and had kenny G pandora station playing in the background.
after dinner we ate cookies and egg nog ice cream while playing a hilar game that all of you should play at a dinner party.

it's easy. you can sit at the table. no fuss.
everyone writes 5+ words that the opposite sex won't know or may be a challenge.
you set the timer for 30 seconds and you pull a word out of the "hat" in our case it was a bowl.
boys vs girls games are always so funny.
the boys strugggggled guessing our words.

some words we had were:
dry bar
partial hightlights
toner
spanx

you get the picture.

these molasses cookies were the bomb. moist & fluffy!
here is the recipe decided last minute that they needed to be dipped in chocolate.
so i melted and dipped.

pippa loved her new christmas blanket i purchased for $5 at old navy.
also below is my newest ornament purchse.
my new fav ornament on the tree this year.

 i loved my black snowman vest.
$7 at goodwill...ummmmm goodwill you REALLY think your cool pricing your stuff so high?
not cool. that stuff is donated for goodness sakes.
i'm really thought $7 for a nasty hilar christmas vest from 1992?

merry christmas eve!
can't believe tomorrow is CHRISTMAS!
i know i say that every year, but every year i mean it.
we did some last minute shopping today for 2 hours to long.
never ever go out on christmas eve.
holy zoo.

merry christmas.
have a wonderful night.