Filed under: How-To, Recipes, Things I Make | Tags: Christmas, DIY, frugal, gifts, handmade, Yule
Like to make gifts, but are pushed for time? Want to give homemade, but feel uncreative? Essential oil reed diffusers are easy to make with extra points for presentation — they look so pretty when done! They are also a welcome, more natural way to fill a home with lovely scents!
Diffusers allow you to use essential oils to scent your home instead of heavy chemically-scented products that easily irritate eyes and airways. They are natural, fairly non-toxic (depending on your oil choices) and blend better with a home’s own “scent”.
Filed under: Health Stuff, Hippy Shit, How-To, In The Kitchen, Recipes, Things I Make | Tags: DIY, exfoliate, health and beauty, homemade, How-To, natural products, Recipes
With all the warning coming out about this chemical or that chemical, I thought I’d share a ‘recipe’ for a simple exfoliating scrub that you can make with ingredients found in your kitchen. This product is super-effective and so safe you could eat it — quite literally!
Filed under: How-To, In The Kitchen, Make Lists of Things, Random Geekery, Recipes, Review Things, The Urban Jungle, Things I Do | Tags: home canning, urban foraging, urban hippy, urban homesteading, urban jungle, video tutorials
I’ve finally stopped joking about it and started freely admitting that, yes, I am an “urban hippy” in most ways. My acceptance of Hippydom came, I believe, last summer when using the sledgehammer to smash up donated, “found”, and recycled concrete patio stones to make a rather organic-looking seating area in my back garden. (I will be creating something similar in the side yard this year, for those who are curious.)
DH, being home, unemployed, and generally driving me nutty now, has fully embraced his own inner hippy and has been busy as a beaver setting up a website where we can play online. My blog isn’t going anywhere, but I will have a few things that are cross-posted to the new site (product reviews, etc). Pretty much everything I’d post to the recipe site will be also found on urbanhippy.ca.
Filed under: Fibre Crafts, How-To, Make Lists of Things, Needlecraft, Random Geekery, Review Things, Teeth | Tags: crafts, crochet, DIY, knit kit, knitting
I got a tweet this morning about a new product called “The Knit Kit“. It contains a small pair of scissors, stitch markers, point protectors, stitch counter, thread cutter, crochet hook and a measuring tape and retails for a mere $20 US.
I cry “Highway Robbery!” as I made my own “knit kit” for far less than that more than a year ago, and by pure accident rather than whim!
My fun project this past week was turning a white skein of Briggs & Little ‘Regal’ yarn into 
a veritable kaleidoscope of colours. It was a lot easier and much less messy than I expected, and I’m already planning to pick up a few more skeins to try the same techniques with the other dyes I have on hand.
Things You’ll Need
- 1 skein of Briggs & Little ‘Regal’, white
- 1 large bowl
- white vinegar
- 3 small refillable squirt bottles, such as those sold at drugstores for travelling
- 2 or 3 Easter egg dye tablets
- plastic wrap
- stovetop steamer and pot
