Every winter, I coach our school’s archery middle and high school archery teams with my friend and assistant coach at my side. It is time-consuming, but I thoroughly enjoy helping the kids learn to shoot and finding success! Each year, I have given the 12th graders of the team a senior gift. It usually takes a little while to figure…
For my birthday, a dear friend gave me a lava bead diffuser bracelet from Vitality Extracts. She had to explain it to me because I had never seen anything like that before! This bracelet had 7 colorful beads on it, along with the lava beads. My friend explained to me that they are Chakra beads. While I do not know…
A little over a year ago, I began using essential oil face cleanser and I haven’t looked back since! I began by using a face wash I purchased from a company, and I really liked it. I then decided to attempt to mix up my own. I used some of the ingredients from the original face wash I purchased, and did…
I am not always faithful about running my essential oil diffuser. But when I do get it started, I love the way it makes our sunroom smell! (We call it a sunroom, but it’s really a sitting room in the back of the house that the former owners added on in the 70s or 80s. It is the only room…
Sometimes, our shoes stink. We may not want to admit it, but they do. No one likes to walk around in smelly shoes. And your family may not like it that much either! My husband’s dress shoes have recently developed an unpleasant odor. He has good Under Armour socks that have helped keep his feet from smelling for quite some…
Whenever my husband and I go out to a restaurant to eat and he spots French onion soup on the menu, he orders it. Some is good, some is mediocre, and some is a flop. The best he ever ate comes from a small diner in his hometown. And I must say…this recipe is fairly close! This recipe won first…
For some reason, it struck me that I very rarely clean my yoga mat. And right about now, there are yogis everywhere cringing. So, I decided to a little bit of research and find out the components of mat cleaning spray. I knew from the beginning that essential oils were going to be the disinfecting agent. Interestingly, the sprays I…
Previously, I wrote a post about homemade facial cleanser using essential oils. To accompany that, I created a facial toner recipe for oily skin. I had purchased some essential oil toner from a company, and I really liked using it! But when I ran out, I decided to look at the ingredients, and figure out my own (much like I…
I have been waiting for this day for quite some time now…it’s applesauce day! Well, technically yesterday was applesauce day. I had been accumulating apples throughout the week. First from my Nana and Pap’s apple trees, and then from the farmers’ market. My Nana and Pap’s trees produced apples like crazy this year! Which is funny, because last year they…
My husband and I live in a tiny neighborhood, with some really great neighbors. Occasionally, one of the neighbors has an excess of vegetables in their garden and they share some with us. That is how I got green beans and wax beans to can, as well as cucumbers for this dill pickle relish. One evening our neighbor brought over…