More finds at Funky Finds!

My skin is having a quarter life crisis and has decided it is allergic to everything. Not cool, body... Not cool at all. I already had sensitive skin. Now it's out of control sensitive and I itch like crazy. I have had to switch to using all natural products and so far they've been working. Well, all natural products can be pretty expensive. These vendors were at Funky Finds and have some amazing and reasonably priced products:

The Soap Addict- (www.thesoapaddict.com) I love the solid lotion bars and almond oatmeal soap! The oatmeal helps with the itching and it smells amazing. The solid lotion bars are really moisturizing and don't leave your hands feeling greasy. My favorite is Almond and Jadyn's is Mint! Jadyn also really loves the Hot Cocoa lip balm. She loved it SO much she spent HER OWN money on it!

Chunky Butt Designs (www.chunkybuttdesigns.net) has more natural bath stuff! My favorite product is the Oatmeal, Milk and Honey Therapeutic Bath Soak. It smells amazing! A 16 oz jar was $15 and well worth it. She also has bath bombs, body butter and bath salts! Jadyn loves the cotton candy bath salt!

While we're on the topic of all natural products.... I found a recipe for laundry soap that is great! All you need is a box of Borax, box of Arm & Hammer washing soap and 6 bars of Ivory soap bars. Using a gallon mason jar I found for $5 at Wal Mart, I added a cup of Borax and Washing Soap then shaved a bar of soap with a grater. Mix together and continue this process until you have used all of the soap! The total cost for all of this was about $14 and made a gallon of laundry soap. Best part- you only use 1 tbsp!! I add a little more because Jadyn can be pretty messy but this stuff is going to last for a long time!! Of course, I had to make my mason jar cute and used my Cricut and some vinyl to make a label! **Found this recipe on Pinterest!**

DIY Flower Headbands

I have a sassy daughter who LOVES to wear fancy things- one of those things being headbands! Her favorites are the ones with big flowers. I'm sure I've spent a small fortune on poorly made headbands that end up broken.

While at Funky Finds Craft Show in Ft Worth this weekend, there was a vendor selling super cute headbands with massive flowers. Jadyn is immediately lured to the booth by all the sparkle and fancy things! I tried to distract her with something else, but LUCKILY it didn't work or I would have missed this awesome idea! These were not JUST headbands with flowers. She had different color headbands with WASHERS glue to the side. Then she had taken different flowers and attached magnets to the back. There you have it- interchangeable flowers! We ended up buying a black glitter headband for $3 then went to Hobby Lobby to make our own flowers. Flowers were $1.67 each (I bought 7) and a set of 8 magnets was $1.99 (Magnet Strength-6). All you have to do is remove the stem and green part off the back of the flower, cut down the remaining plastic, hot glue a magnet and your done! Pretty easy, right?!

You could even make some fabric rosettes to attach- tutorial is somewhere below!

The vendor is: Charming Designs by Michelle Fisher

New problem- finding a place to keep all of the flowers and headbands. Solution- Use an old oatmeal container (the round ones with the lid, not the box!), empty and clean out and cover the outside in cute paper! Flowers go inside and headbands can be placed around the container!