You're the Balm Free Valentine Printable

Remember making Valentine boxes in elementary school? Carefully covering shoe or
cereal boxes with construction paper, heart cut-outs and stickers. Do kids still do that?

The best part was the actual Valentine's Day party when you stuffed your faces with sugar
cookies, red Kool-Aid, conversation hearts and red lollipops with white sugary hearts!
Once you were all hyped up on sugar you got to go around the classroom and place a
Valentine card in all of your classmates homemade mail boxes. Wasn't that the best!

2017 Holiday Gift Guide for Her

Happy Monday!
I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.

Today I'm sharing a little holiday gift guide for her. This gift guide includes items I really
love or that are on my wish list! Maybe it will help you with your holiday shopping!

Initial coffee mugs - I'm obsessed with cute mugs and just love these!

Amazing Grace body lotion - this lotion smells amazing!

Essential oil diffuser - I have one in my bedroom and one in my office - love them!

Urban Decay Naked 3 Palate - because a girl can never have too much makeup.

Weekly Meal Plan - this meal planner is so cute! It's on my wish list!

Lauren Conrad necklace - I have this one and wear it all the time.

Magnolia Hearth & Hand sugar bowl - so simple, yet pretty!

Every girl needs a nice pair of gloves - these look warm and toasty!

Happy Shopping and have a great week!

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Disney Spring Break Essentials for Her

Spring break will be here soon and we love spending our spring break in the happiest
place on earth, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Winter Dry Skin Beauty Favorites

Winter weather plays havoc with my sensitive skin, so I have to stay on top of things to 

keep my face, hands and body feeling moisturized.  I've tried lots of beauty products over
the years and have discovered a handful of products that keep my skin feeling great all
winter long.

5 Beauty Products I'm Loving Right Now

Spring Break Essentials for Her

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It's Spring Break season, so I thought it would be fun to share a few Spring Break
Essentials for Her. These are things that I love or would really love to have!
Happy Spring Break!

Note - This is not a sponsored post - just things I like :)

Beauty Favorites

Happy February!

Now that January is over, we're one step closer to Spring and warm weather!
Last weekend we had a heck of a snow storm here in Virginia and although it was kind
of nice to be snowed in a for a couple days, I'm so glad so see that the temperature is
warming up this week!

What's In My Make-Up Bag

Hi friends!
Let's talk about something other than food today.
Are you cool with that?
Okay good.
I thought we would play a little game called what's in my make-up bag.

How to Clean Make-Up Brushes

Happy Monday!
How was your weekend?
Mine was good.
I got a lot accomplished, which is always a good feeling.

There's no recipe post today,but since I did a lot of cleaning and organizing
over the weekend, I thought I would share a tip on how to clean your
make-up brushes.

I make a point to clean my make-up brushes once a month and it pays
off because I have had the two Bare Minerals brushes for several years and
they're still in great condition.
It's also a good idea to clean your brushes for the sake of your skin as well.

To clean your make-up brushes pour equal amounts of water
and distilled white vinegar into a glass or mason jar.
I used 1/3 C of warm water and 1/3 C white vinegar.
Add a drop of baby shampoo to the water mixture.

DIY Soothing Oatmeal Face Mask

During the winter months my sensitive skin gets so dry.
The last time we were snowed in  I decided to pamper myself by making
by own soothing oatmeal face mask.

This soothing oatmeal face mask is made from all natural ingredients that you
probably already have at home.

DIY Coconut Lime Sugar Scrub

Last week when we were in Disney World I got super sunburned.
I was SO mad at myself for not putting sunscreen on earlier, but I had no idea I could get that burnt
in 65 degree weather!
Florida sun is powerful!

Towards the end of the trip my skin was really dry, especially my lips, so I was on a mission to find relief.
Tucked back in a corner of Downtown Disney I discovered a wonderful little shop called Basin.

Basin was full of fabulous products to pamper your skin and the store smelled AMAZING!
You can try their hand scrubs right in the store.  My hands felt super soft afterwards.

I found this lip scrub and went straight to the counter to buy it.
LOVE the flavor :)
It definitely works - my lips felt great the next day.

Anyway, once we got home I was obsessed with making my own body scrub.

I did some research and found out that scrubs are super easy to make yourself.

I already had everything I needed at home except the fresh limes.

Love that!

This body scrub turned out just like I hoped it would.

It works just like the ones in the store, is all natural and smells great too.

Oh and it is ALOT less expensive than the retail version.

I can't wait to use it on my feet to get ready for flip flop season!

Coconut Lime Sugar Scrub

1/2 cup coconut oil
1 1/4 cup sugar (I used raw sugar, but you can use regular too)
3 Tbsp. fresh lime juice

Coconut oil is in solid form.  I placed 1/2 cup in the microwave for just a few seconds (5-7) to soften it.
Do NOT let it melt. 
Place sugar in a medium mixing bowl.  Add the coconut oil and lime juice.  Stir to combine.
Spoon into a jar with a lid.
You can store this in the fridge for extended use or leave it out if you plan to use it within a week or so.

Recipe from New Nostalgia