Pinterest Diy #5

Hey Guys! Welcome back my lovely friends! <3 I know I didn't post Sunday, I was lazy and was watching the Broncos football game. And now a full week after doing the diy, I decided to write the blog! Other than that, I will give the brief back story to this pin. My hands were disgustingly dry and probably had some dead skin. And for that reason I decided to make a Diy Salt Scrub. 

Materials you'll need:

1. Coconut oil and/or regular cooking fat (olive oil) -2/3 Cup

2. Essential oils (100%) - 20 Drops

3. Epsom salt - 1 1/3 Cups

4. Table salt (If needed) - As much as needed

5. A bowl or container you plan to keep it in - 1 Pint

How to Do it!

Step 1:Gather your materials! :P

Step 2: Start by adding your dry ingredients being the salt to the container. If you do not have enough Epsom salt (like me), you may add the remainder with table salt.

Now here is where I made one of a thousand other mistakes. You must melt the coconut oil before adding it. Being the stubborn person I am I decided not to thinking it was already soft enough, and I added it to the mixture. Big mistake don't do that!

Step 3: Pour your melted oil in with the the salt and stir the mixture. (I had to do something different though)

Step 4: Drop 20 drops of your 100% pure essential oil and stir that into the salt and oil.

Step 5: And there you have it! An easy to make and use salt scrub! Keep reading if you want to see how I did it...

Same materials, different procedure and measurements.
When I saw how much it was going to make, I was sure that it was too much for me. What I did instead was just eye out the measurements and hoped for the best. Because of this though, everything was just a great fun mess -- BUT it still worked! So without further ado... lets get on with it!

How to Do it! (My way)

Step 1: Pour all the Epsom salt you have into a small disposable cup.

Step 2: Notice that it is not nearly enough salt, and slowly pour salt from a soy sauce container (because that is how this household works).

Step 3: Get a couple spoon fulls of solid coconut oil and plop it onto the salt. This is where you are supposed to start wondering how in the world this is supposed to work, and then realize that you did it wrong. Using your handy-dandy brain, one must fill up a sink with hot water and place the cup into it and hope it would melt.

Step 4: Give yourself a pat on the back and still drop 20 drops of essential oils into your mixture because that handy-dandy brain wasn't thinking at that moment. Stir the mixture and you are good to go!

Step 5: Realize that you are not good to go because it is too runny. Keep adding more and more salt until it is too dry. Now add some more olive oil. This time slowly add to and test the scrub.

Step 6: Congratulate yourself on achieving nice smooth hands after using it 20 times while testing!

Step 7: Force everybody in your family to use the scrub because you worked so long on it!

Stay warm, safe, and have a great day! <3

Love you all
-Tessa

Pinterest Diy #4

Hello my wonderful humans (or animals, I don't judge)! Welcome back to our 4th post of the Pinterest Diy series!
Now I don't know about you, but my pet rocks look quite boring and I believe they deserve to look pretty. For that reason I decided to try the Sharpie Zenstones pin:
Buzzfeed 34 Things you can Make with a Sharpie
Original post from:
Art Judy

So I looked around my backyard and to my luck we had piles of decorative beach stones. I grabbed a couple, rinsed them off, then used a palm sander to sand off any imperfections. After that I got straight to work.

Materials you'll need:
1. Beach Stones

2. Palm Sander (Optional)
3. Sharpie 

How to Do it!

Step 1: Start off with... Gathering your materials!

Step 2: With your clean and smooth beach stones in hand, grab your sharpie and start drawing. You can make up your own design or get "inspiration" from the Internet!

Step 3: When done with design, you can either leave it; or for high durability, spray on a sealant. I've only seen a clear-coat varnish be used, but I bet something like a clear drying mod podge would work just as well. 
Now I think I did pretty good, but that's for you guy's to judge... (Pictures left is professionally done. right is my attempt)

Step 4: Do something with it! Put it in your backyard zen garden, in flower pots, anywhere!

Love you all,
Tessa <3







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I'm back!

GUESS WHO'S BACK?!
That's right.... I am. And I am here to stay, for a while. Anyways long story-short I took a break from my blog. But that doesn't matter because this week I am continuing the wonderful Pinterest Diy attempt things series!

Love you all,
Tessa

Pinterest Diy #3

I'm back! And back with another Pinterest Diy attempt. I've seen this pin going around so I decided I was going to attempt it and see if it will work so you don't have to. Since it's the fall season and the Holidays are coming up and stuff, I tried out the Mod Podge Fall Leaf Bowl pin.

Autumn Leaf Bowls: These Fall leaf bowls capture the essence of the season. http://pinterest.com/pin/514114113692221644/?utm_source=android_share

So I live in California.... and here--we don't get fall, never mind fall leaves. Yet for some reason I tried to find some. On I went around the neighborhood on a quest to find a sufficient amount of non-crumbly red, orange, and yellow leaves. Two hours later I sit down at my table with a plastic bag filled with some leaves who's chlorophyll is breaking down.

Following the directions I blow up a balloon and try to balance it on some container and after some mcgivering made it still.

It was now time for the actual project. With a foam brush I painted on the first layer of mod podge onto the balloon and slapped on a bunch of leaves. Repeating this process a thousand more times after a couple hours it seemed like the bowl was thick enough.

I let it dry for a couple more hours to make sure it was solid.
Then using scissors, cut a slit into the balloon to slowly let the air out.
The results were horrendous.
What have I just spent, an entire day on.

It fell apart into a sticky mess of rotting leaves.

But now Iv'e got a bag of a bunch of leaves. You know what?--Let me just glue it onto a piece of paper to make an art piece that will slowly disintegrate. And so I did. And because I was bored I decided to waste my time making it ombre.

 Taking another 45 min I separated a bunch of leaves in order of shade ranging from dark red to light yellow. After I had enough leaves I started gluing them onto some piece of printer paper.

So yah... there wen't time of my life that I won't be getting back anytime soon.

My Life!?

Hey my buddies! Ima just warn you right now... NOT A DIY JUST A PIECE OF MY LIFE. But anyways on with it.

So today I went down to Studio City to visit my great grandfather. My dad and I took him to a breakfast diner and we sat there and talked.

Fun stuff right?

Lets get on to the more interesting events of my day...

I have a science fair project which requires some melted rock. And the only ways to get melted rock is either naturally at a volcano, or you make it in a kiln.

So for anyone who has no clue what a kiln is, it's a very insulated high powered oven. Party! On to more fun stuff! So we picked up my dad's old kiln from North Hollywood and brought it back to our house. "Will we be able to even start it after sitting in the dust for 8 years." While we were still in North Hollywood we started up a high pressure air thingy and blew off all the dust. 

But how were we supposed to test it out?

"How about we melt some pennies!" I was now excited to deface some American currency.

We plugged in the little oven and popped in the ceramic bowl containing 6 zinc pennies.

"2,000 degrees Fahrenheit" is what the thermometer read. 

FAST FORWARD >>>>

I grab a wrench or some random tool and start to pull out my ceramic dish.

*CLICK* The half of the crucible I was pulling out dis-attached from the lower half of the dish. And nearly disintegrated onto the concrete floor. I quickly pulled the lower half out and let that fall and break on the driveway aswell. This made the molten zinc spill onto the floor and splatter everywhere.

My dad poured some beer on the zinc cool it down. I pick it up not noticing how extremely SHARP it was. Into my skin it pierced. So on the end of this exciting day, I sit at my laptop with a bandaid around my thumb typing this very sentence.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY WONDERFUL PEOPLE! STAY WARM!

Pinterest Diy #2

Hey people! Here is the second Pinterest win or fail post! So today I had to skip school because I messed up my shoulder and my neck-ish. This caused me to be immobile and deep in pain. But to help me get my mind off of it I decided to do a Pinterest Diy that I've wanted to do for a while-- a brownie in a mug! I was very excited because it seemed so easy; I went right to work to find the ingredients. So... I live in a quite health conscious house owned by my registered dietitian mother; let's just say I had to get creative. Instead of using the 1/4 cup of flour it calls for, I had to figure out something close to that because we have no flour. I scavenged the house looking behind cupboards and in drawers. My final stop was the fridge where I spotted gluten free pancake mix. "This should work." I thought to myself.
Usually when you think of sugar, you think of the white dyed ground up processed sugar which most recipes call for, but I have none of that. Instead I found a large jar of raw sugar in the back of the pantry. At this point I've substituted such a major part that a different type of sugar shouldn't make a difference.
But then there was one more thing... I forgot we don't have a microwave. Well what was I going to do! I was so ready to have a tasty easy brownie. At this point I wasn't going to give up. We have other appliances that shoot hot air at food. I decided to go with a mini-inferred oven.
All that was left to do was to mix the ingredients.
Disclaimer: The recipe and directions rightfully belong to Simply Recipes and you can check it out at http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/brownie_in_a_mug/  I am not ownership of How to prepare it or it's recipe.

The Recipe:

1/4 cup flour (50 g)

1/4 cup sugar (70 g)

2 Tbsp (13 g) cocoa (natural, unsweetened)

Pinch of salt

Tiny pinch of cinnamon

1/4 cup water (60 ml)

2 Tbsp canola oil or vegetable oil (NOT extra virgin olive oil, it's too strongly flavored)

1 to 2 drops vanilla extract

1 small scoop of ice cream or 1 or 2 teaspoons heavy whipping cream to serve

Mini oven is that thing on the leftHow to Prepare it:

1. Place flour, sugar, cocoa, salt, and cinnamon in a microwave safe ceramic mug. Stir with a fork or spoon to mix well and break up any clumps.

2. Add the oil, water, and vanilla to the cup and stir until the mixture is smooth and there are no lumps.

3. Place in microwave and heat on high until the mixture is cooked through, about a 1 minute and 40 seconds for a 1000 watt microwave. You may have to experiment and adjust the time for less or more powerful microwaves. If you don't know the power level on your microwave, start with 60 seconds and increase until the brownie is done. It should still be moist when cooked through, not dry.

Looks pretty good right? Nope.

4. Let cool for a minute and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a teaspoon or two of whipping cream poured over.

How I Prepare it:

1. Put the dry ingredients like the gluten free pancake mix and sugar and stuff into the cup with their correct measurements.

2. I added the liquids and stirred the ingredients all together.

3. I placed it in the mini oven thing and let that run twice for 2 minute intervals. 

4. I did some magic gymnastics and acrobats and managed to get it out of the mini oven using an apron. 

5. I tried out my "5" minute brownie.

6. I spat it out from disgust and asked myself why I ever trusted Pinterest.

THE END!

Welp...Sorry :/

I HAD JUST PROMISED MULTIPLE POSTS AND THEN MY CAMERA BREAKS. I'm so sorry guys :( I had so many fun DIYs planned for Halloween and then BAM camera doesn't turn on. And what would a page of boring words be?- Nothing fun. So I finally got the camera working the day after Halloween so I figured why would I do a post for a holiday after it passes. So this is my apology for being such a failure. I had some problems with my battery and had to fix some prongs and whatnot. So for now thus is all I have as a second post. Enjoy your extra hour Californians!