Bonjour,
bonjour, and bonjour, how has your day been? I have been in London today for a Christmas
thing with my family, not fun, and that is why this post is being written at
1:07am and that it is now actually Christmas Eve, yessssssssssss. This post is
one that should have been posted weeks ago but I have just never got around to
it, so here are two Christmas DIYs that are good for late Christmas present or
to decorate. Enjoy!!!!
The first
thing I am going show you is clove oranges. Which very simple but smells
heavenly and can be used as a last minute Christmas decoration; I personally
shall be hanging these bad boys all around the house.
For this
all you will need is some cloves and oranges, yes it really is that simple.
To make
these you must simply stick the cloves into the orange, I didn’t have time to
do the whole orange, but if you do, do it for sure as it smells so nice and
looks fab. You could however make some cute patterns, I just did a little ring
all around the orange, but get creative think of some cool designs. To hang
them up simply just wrap some ribbon around the orange and hang from where ever
you want to smell nice and the longer you leave these the better they get as
the oranges dry out and, yes they are just SO GOOD.
The next
DIY is a little more complicated but still pretty simple, and that is bath bombs,
and yes these are relatively easy to make surprisingly. You can make them
either with essential oils, which will make your skin smooth, or do what I did
and use dried ground spices, I have given you two recipes here and feel free to
alter either of them to your favourite scents.
For the
spice once you will need: (makes one)
1
tbsp. citric acid- available from chemists
1
tbsp. bicarb soda
1½
tbsp. cinnamon
1½
tbsp. ginger
1tsp.
water- preferably in a spray bottle
1
tbsp. cloves
First of
all put all your dry ingredients in the bowl: citric acid, bicarb, cinnamon,
and ginger (but not the cloves) then mix them together until fully incorporated.
Now
spray your water into the bowl and straight after spraying mix so that your
bath bombs don’t fizz to before you’ve even finished, this can be a little difficult
so don’t worry it’s not the end of the world and they’ll still work just not as
fizzy. Also make sure that you don’t add to much water as you only just want
them to be combined, DO NOT MAKE IT INTO A PASTE, it should be they consistently
of brown sugar.
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| this is just a general spay bottle I found around the house |
Once
you have done that line the bottom of your mould, I used a sea shell but you
can use water you like, cup bowl cake tin, just whatever, with the dried
flowers to make a nice pattern when they have dried. Then just put it into the
mould for at least 12 hours, but more if possible.
This is
the recipe for the bath bombs made with oil, very similar but there are a few differences.
You shall
need: (to make one)
1 tbsp. citric
acid- available from chemists
1 tbsp. bicarb soda
¼ tbsp. food colouring,
colour of your choice
¼ tbsp. oil of your
choice in scent
1 tbsp. dried flowers
First
of all put all your dry ingredients in the bowl: citric acid, bicarb, (but not
the dried flowers) then mix them together until fully incorporated.
Now pour
your food colouring and oil into the bowl and straight after putting it in, MIX
so that your bath bombs don’t fizz to before you’ve even finished, this can be
a little difficult so don’t worry it’s not the end of the world and they’ll
still work just not as fizzy. Also make sure that you don’t add to much as you
only just want them to be combined, DO NOT MAKE IT INTO A PASTE, it should be
they consistently of brown sugar.
Once
you have done that line the bottom of your mould, I used a sea shell but you
can use water you like, cup bowl cake tin, just whatever, with the dried flowers
to make a nice pattern when they have dried. Then just put it into the mould
for at least 12 hours, but more if possible.
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Hope you
liked that I couldn’t be bothered to re-write a whole new set of instructions
so I just copied and pasted them in the end, I really hope you liked it as this
will be the last proper blogmas post from me, but I shall still be seeing you
very, very soon my little birds.
Night,
night, wherever you are, have a very merry Christmas
Love Tavi
xxxxxx
