Well Hello There 2012!

I hope everybody had a great New Year's. Starting from last month I had such a great excitement for this coming year. I was pumped to decorate my home, make close friends and family presents and even organize a small party at home. Usually I am not this excited for the coming years but this year something feels different so, I did all the things that came to my mind.

To make the house look New Yearsy I need a tree. Last year I wanted to make a tree from balsa wood (which I saw @ Design*Sponge) but never had the energy and the spirit to do so. Since I had every material I needed form last year I made it this year.

Now that I had a tree, I could start thinking about the presents... Yet again I took Grace Bonney's (Design*Sponge)  advice and decided to make all the girls balms for the rough areas and scrubs for the face & body. I got the cute jars from Pasabahce and the small balm jars from Tahtakale. It's very easy to make your own scrub and you get marvelous results. 

I've decided on 3 kinds:

Honey & Lemon which I named Honey Zesty Bunny

A spicy one : Sizzling Spice Shock 

and a minty lavender kind : Lavender Frosting

For the scrub you basically need an oil base ( could be olive oil or almond oil), essential oils ( lavander oil, mint oil etc...) which can easily be found in the drug stores or in a spice shop, brown sugar or sea salt and you are good.

And for the balm you need;

honey wax (which can be found in spice shops)

vaseline 

essential oils

and spices 

I experimented with lots of kinds for the balm and came up with the names;

cinnahon, chillander, frozen honey, buzzing almond and sp.ice

After gathering all the materials I had to design labels for them, and the result was victorious!

Of course I didn't forget about the gents. For the gentlemen I prepared a hot chocolate mixture put in a mug which I got from IKEA. The mixture contains cocoa, sugar, spices and grated chocolate. when I was making the mixture the smell in house was irresistible! 

After giving everybody their presents and hopefully making everybody happy, we had a great start of the year.

 
   Have a great year folks!