Bacon Roses

At the same girl's night as the sugar scrub we also made bacon roses to give to the gentlemen in my branch on Father's day.  I tried to take pictures as we went along...but I didn't really succeed.  Oh well.  This recipe taken from OurBestBites

This craft was actually not too arduous because I had several helpers

Supplies: 

• Bacon: we bought cheap store brand bacon.  That was fine.  They made little roses which was perfect for us.  
• Toothpicks: You want the ones with sharp ends, however, if you use colored ones like we did, it turns the bacon pretty colors
• Fake roses: I bought the ones on sale outside of Michaels.  I bought rose bouquets.  They had like 7-10 roses on them and they were probably about 1-2 inches tall (the rose) 
• Ribbon
• Wire cutters
• People to help you

Process:

1. Roll the bacon up.  If you use cheap-o bacon like me, I suggest folding the bacon in half long way, it makes it easier to roll
2. Stick two toothpicks through the bottom so they will stand up like you see in the picture below
3. Set on a cooking rack over foil in a cookie sheet
4. Bake 400 20-30 minutes (I can't remember how long we baked them)
5. In the meantime, take the flowers off the stems of the fake flowers. You want to leave the part the flower sits on 
6. If you are doing individual flowers (like I was) cut the stem off the bouquet and tie a ribbon along the stem (to make it fancy)
7. Once the bacon is cool enough to handle, remove the toothpicks and just stick it on the stem.  It was really easy.  The end.  That's all you have to do! 

Sugar Scrubs

So I am going to put up several recipes tonight because I am crossing things off my to-do list.  Whoot! Go me.  

This is sugar scrub.  You use it in the shower or the bath. It exfoliates and moistures at the same time.  If you like feeling oily, you don't even have to wash it off.  I don't like feeling oily, I use soap afterwards to get the oil off.  I figured these for a girl's night.  Recipes adapted from OurBestBites

I put them in 1/2 pint jars.  Important note, decorate your jar before putting the sugar scrub in.  I tried it both ways to determine what was better, decorate first!

Sugar and Spice

1/4 c brown sugar

1/4 c white sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

Mix really well so that it is blended and all the brown sugar is broken up

Add: 

1/8-1/4 tsp cinnamon oil (I used LorAnn candy and baking oil; essential oils would probably work too)

enough olive oil to get it to a consistency where it a thick paste

Tropical Escape

Heat 1/4 c coconut oil (I used the stuff I make magic shell with) until some of it is melted

Mix in heaping 1/2 c white sugar

Mix in zest from 1 lime OR 1 orange (do not mix the two, it looks like throw up)

Add any tropical like oils you can find (I wanted to add lime and coconut, couldn't find either.  So I added orange.  I also had raspberry. My friends did any combo for orange, raspberry, lime zest or orange zest and there was some really yummy smelling scrubs)

All of us added more sugar to get it to a consistency that we liked  

And these are my cute examples: 

It was a fun, easy, easy girls night! 

Valentines Day Wreath

Valentine's Day Wreath :)

....at least part of this was done in a Hegsted kitchen....

These were so cute!

Supplies:

12 inch styrofoam wreath

white ribbon

assorted valentines ribbon

fun blingy hearts/Love embellishments

poofy bow made my mom

Straight pins

1. Wrap wreath with white ribbon (secure with pins)

2. Cut and wrap various valentine ribbon around (if you notice, there is some variance in the spacing of the ribbon). Secure with pins

3. Add embelishments and bows with pins.

4. Put a ribbon on it to hang

Enjoy.

Mom's
Danielle's
Anna's