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!  

And a Fox is Born!

Hello everyone,

Last month I have decided to stack up my thoughts, the things I wanted to do, I like and I see. Therefore, I started keeping a wishlist book where I write all kinds of ideas that came to my mind. After a short while I realized these ideas and the process of achieving them is the primitive way of writing a blog. So here I am!

As I decided to write a blog I had to pick out a perfect name for it. "Foxhour" phrase goes back to my childhood. As a child I used to travel a lot with my family. In those trips as the day comes to an end, just before the pretty sunset, me and my brother's heart would pound with a little game we used to play with my dad. The game didn't have a name, we would impatiently ask my dad "Is it fox hour yet? ", he would check his watch, check the sun and the wind and say, " Hmm, in about 10 to 15 minutes". As he finishes his sentence my brother and I would start looking for that pretty silhouette. As your doubt would have guessed after those 10 to 15 minutes a fox would magically appear by the road we are passing.

This still remains an unsolved mystery in my life. Being so struck with this charm, right at fox hour the foxes will be running wild in my head and I will be sharing my little 2 cents with the world!

So welcome to my world!