Chocolate-Honey Moisturizing Lip Balm

Almost forgot, I've made a moisturizing, but also yummy lip balm. The previous picture has a darker, brownish pot of it. Here's the recipe:

Chocolate-Honey Moisturizing Lip Balm

• 2 tablespoon of beeswax
• 2 tablespoon of almond oil
• 1/2 tablespoon of honey
• 1/2 a tablespoon dark Belgian chocolate, or cocoa powder (the good kind, this goes on your lips, after all)
• 1 tablespoon shea butter
• 2 tablespoon cocoa butter
• 1/2 tablespoon vitamin e

Same as before, you use the double boiler method and heat up everything in a  bowl save for vitamin-e. Once everything has melted and it's mixed properly, stir in the vitamin-e and pour out into the containers of your choosing.

Enjoy!

Try not to lick it off all the time, tho! :)

Extremely Moisturizing Homemade Lip Balm recipe

What have I been up to in the last few days?
Making homemade lip balm.

Sadly my lips get chapped an awful lot. Also, some lip balms don't work on me, probably because some of the ingredients don't do anything for my skin. One of them is coconut oil.

Coconut oil doesn't work for me, not at all. It leaves my lips chapped and dry with an oily film over them. So I decided to make my own lip balm.

Extremely Moisturizing Lip Balm

• 2 tablespoons of beeswax
  1 tablespoon almond oil
• 1 tablespoon shea butter
• 1 tablespoon cocoa butter
• 1/2 tablespoon vitamin-e (or about 3 squeezed out capsules)
• a few drops of essential oil

It's a pretty straightforward process.

You use the double boiler method to heat up the first 4 on the list and stir it with a toothpick if you don't have a stirrer.
Once they've completely melted you need to stir in the vitamin-e and the essential oils and then quickly pour them into tubes or little containers.

You can buy these on Amazon, Etsy or in most Apothecaries. I'm pretty sure drogeries carry them too, or even bio/herb shops.

Also, I did try some of the recipes on the net first. Most homemade recipes say you need one part wax and 3 part oils to even it out, but I find that adding so many oils to such little wax make it extremely runny. I prefer my lip balm to be a thick balm and not a runny lip shine. Especially since it's NOT a lip gloss.

Of course, if you want a lip gloss , you can use 1 spoonful of beeswax instead and add a chunk of lipstick or the proper pigment you can purchase at some craft stores that sells lip balm making supplies.

So. I've been interested in tatting on and off. But all thanks to a stupid surgeon who mistook my parathyroid for my lymph node and removed it, my fingers go numb all the time. (Effects are irreversible and over here you can't even sue the surgeons...)

To make my fingers feel again, I took up tatting. Harmless little fun, yes? (Well, I got really into it and these are some of the things I ended up making.)

Some patterns are vintage, some are from Yarnplayer and Totusmel, one is from Spulni-blog.

Moving in

All right. Long time no see. I had cancer.

...uhh, yeah. Not like anybody reads this, but still. I had a reason, honest.

I also did some lacework and other random stuff I will be documenting, because why not. :)

So this will be my official blog, and I hope I will remember to keep it updated with things I do and will not whine because of the darned radio treatment, etc. Nobody needs to know about that, it sucks, period.

Soooo... I'll start with adding a ton of pictures and then... taking over the blog once again. :)

Uhhh... long time no blogging.

So here, treats galore:

Earrings from leftovers

Yup, what the title says. Been collecting up my green and blue leftover delicas from other projects. And these are the results... in progress.

I really like colorful things, especially for summer, as my clothes tend to be rather dull. Black and white and gray mostly. So these look pretty hot... and boy, they are kinda huge, but oh well.They look pretty, don't they? ^^
Oh and the pink one is for Lilli. She likes pinks. A lot. And greens. :D

Not beads

So... I strayed from the beads once again. What can I say? They were an older passion of mine than even beads. And they are back in style! Wheee!

Flowers revamped

You probably know the 5 and 6 petaled flowers. I took the pattern for a spin. Nothing too fancy or anything, of course, but hey, it's summer!

9 beads bezeling

Just a random pattern I had to try out.

Buncha rings

I am having waaaay to much fun with this pattern. I Used the 5 and 6 petaled flower pattern. And yes, I cut back on the flowers, this is a smaller ring than in the pattern.

still alive and kicking

Yeah yeah, I have been away for too long. I'll update my blog in a while, but first, I owe someone some pictures.

So here is my newest bracelet in making, because it still could use a few more strands. ^^

So... as some of my previous bracelets, this one was made with a few "strappy-srips" invented by Gwen Fisher and probably another few nameless people in the world and some other stuff.

Without further ado, my pictures:
(And yes, I am perfectly aware i missed out on a waxing session there, I'm gonna go and make up for it once I'll feel like braving the snow and ice outside.)

Crochet corner

Yesterday I stumbled upon a crocheted bracelet. A few days ago I saw a similar Victorian lace pattern, so I decided why the hell not, I'll make my own.

Sadly, yarns are seriously expensive these days, and the second hand shop where I buy my yarns has been out of yarns since before Christmas. They said I'll have to wait 2 more weeks and then they might have a new shipment.

And yes, I prefer second hand yarns. I buy unused yarn, there are some their original protective wrappings, and there are the leftovers, clearly unused, just not a full ball of yarn. I don't mind these. After all here 50g of yarn (100% wool) costs 15 HUF, while in any yarn shop it costs 590-790 HUF, depending on colour. Can you blame me? I mean buying yarn for a hat you wanna make costs twice as much as a hat you buy in a random shop! This is insane.

Anyway, I sadly have little ecru coloured yarn, so I used my leftover ball of macramé thread. It was a bit bulky and thick, but the overall look of the bracelet is pretty neat, so who cares?

The bracelet is completed with some leftover silk ribbon I had in my bag of ribbons and a button I've had laying around.

Pretty neat, huh?

Pictures of the nightmares, without flash

Yup, flash decidedly killed the colours. These are the same bracelets. Enjoy.

The improved strippy strappy nightmare

New bracelets, because I love them. Well, only one of them is new, the teal-green one is only improved. Let's just say I had fun with it and...

















I might as well have given Chewbakka to wear it for the photo. >< Sometimes I seriously doubt my appeal.

PS: the flash killed the vibrant colours. :(

I'm out of names

I have been bored lately being cooped up inside, so... I started playing around with Gwen Fisher's Strappy Strip pattern.

Here is the result. And I'm still adding strings to it.

New year stuff, because why not?I also played around with Gwen Fisher's Strappy Strip pattern and added a third row. See ring below. ^^

random

A ring of random beads I found in my bead box named baroque for some strange reason.And a cellini spiral bracelet made from three different kinds of purple.All because I am cooped up inside.

I had some orders and St Nicholas gifts to make. So this is the newest batch. Oh and please note, those bronze looking metallic beads cost a fortune, because they are gold lustered. As in... 24 carat gold.

New orders

Both my index fingers hurt like hell. But I finished the orders on time!

The Devil made me do it

My mom came home with a bunch of crystals the other day and I bought 2 more red ones because I am expected to make some pendants.

So yesterday evening and today... I made these. Dunno what came over me but somehow I just wanted to make red and black stuff.

So these are my newest ones. The threads will be clipped, obviously, after I have used some glue on them.