129/365 Eggs, eggs, eggs

Mmm I think my youngest may have forgotten to go and collect the eggs for a few days. We now have quite a few eggs to use up, I think there may be a pavlova being made this weekend.

It seems I have the blahs at the moment. Partly it's been to do with Christmas, if I look at the big picture I get a little overwhelmed but then I take a moment to step back, just break it down and things will all get done in time I know.  The other has been negotiating behaviours, behaviours I hope will improve with age but for now it is something I'm trying very hard to do my best to deal with. To keep my spirits up I made myself  a batch of my favourite granola a recipe from Heather. To mine I added some raw almonds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, cranberries and apricots, delish.

We've been continuing with our advent calendar activities, yesterday it was making some doggy treats for Molly.  The recipe made so many that I'm sure she won't mind sharing a few with her doggy friends so we'll package up some and give them away this Christmas. 

For ages I've been meaning to try and make some of my own citrus cleaner.  The other day before I cut up our fruit for morning tea I remembered to take the peel off first and started my first batch of cleaner.  I couldn't help but open the lid to smell and wow it smells good already but I'll leave it for the 2 weeks the recipe suggests and look forward to trying it then. Have you made your own cleaner before?

I've been thinking I might  just need a little break from my blog for the rest of the week, get my head around things at home and hopefully be more refreshed when I return.  I'll see you again soon.  Take care. 

♥

Homemade lip balm

Since last year I've had Soulemama's lip balm recipe bookmarked.  I have so many things bookmarked under different headings that I'd like to try but you know how it is there are just so many hours in the day to do things and so many more things I'd like to try.  This year though I was determined to give lip balm making a try.  I did some more searching and came across another recipe I decided to use this time but there are many out there. I'd like to give this one a go too but thought it might be cheaper to stick to more basic ingredients for now. I ordered my little jars online from Heirloom Bodycare, the beeswax I purchased from here and the other ingredients from my local organic shop.  Making the lip balm took no time at all and just with some simple little decorations added it's now ready to gift.  I did have a computer generated label I created and I really wanted to use but when I went to print it out, there was, surprise surprise no ink it's always the way. Oh well it's all homemade that's for sure. For more creative spaces stop by here to be inspired.