goodbyeweighthellonewlife:

Since I just posted the dirty dozen, I made this DIY produce wash image for you. I’ve used it before. It works great. I use it every time I buy produce because let’s face is, organic is expensive and not always readily available. So this produce wash comes in pretty dang handy when you can’t/don’t want to get organic. 

Click here for the original post of this DIY wash. I came across it on Pinterest (I’m obsessed!) and decided to try it. It’s worth it and it’s mad cheap to make. 

Let me know if any of you try it and how it goes for you! :)

Fruit Wash…Awesome!

Raw sprinkles

Ingredients:
1 cup raspberries
2 oranges, zested
2 lemons, zested 
2 limes, zested

Directions:
Crumble the raspberries into pieces, and zest the lemons, limes, and oranges.  Mix everything together, and dehydrate for 6 to 8 hours on 118 degrees.  The raspberries should be completely dehydrated, with no moisture left.  Pour your mixture into a spice grinder, and pulse a couple times until you have small sprinkle sized pieces of fruit.  You’re done!  
My recipe makes a little under 1/2 a cup, or about 21 teaspoon sized servings.  If well dried, the sprinkles should keep in the cupboard for a couple of months.

Raw Sprinkles

truebluemeandyou:

A Roundup of Roundups of Hundreds of Bags, Totes and Purses Tutorials. In response to marupload’s question about tutorials for bags, specifically totes (but not huge) and maybe lunch bag size. Here is a list of hundreds of bags:

1. Roundup of over 100 bags - truly mind boggling number and every type under the sun! (Squidoo) here. *Photo: Sonya Syle - made out of a map here.
2. Roundup of 6 Lunch Bags (Sew, Mama, Sew!) here. *Photo: A Lemon Squeezy Home 
3. Roundup of 39 Bags of all Shapes and Sizes (Frugal and Thriving) here. *Photo: mmmcrafts 
4. Roundup of 12 Free Bag and Purses Tutorials (How About Orange) here. *Photo: Melissa Esplin
5. Roundup of 9 Different Bags (How About Orange) here. *Photo: Artsy Crafty Babe
6. Roundup of 6 Bags - picked because of the “one hour bag” pictured (Cactus and Olive) here. *Photo: Skip to My Lou
7. Roundup of 10 Recycled Sweater Bags (A Sewing Journal) here. A few of the links are broken, but wonderful inspiration. *Photo: A Lemon Squeezy Home
8. Roundup of lots and lots of bags broken into small, med. and large bags. Not a lot of photos (Whipup) here. *Photo: noodle head
9. THE ULTIMATE SITE: Free Purse, Bag & Tote Patterns and Tutorials here. Click on “gallery” to see 100s of tutorial from around the web. *Photo: Sew4home

Bag Tutorials

rainbowsandunicornscrafts:

DIY Frozen Yogurt Dots. Something similar was posted here, but I like how this has so many flavors and also how she used a baggie to pipe out the yogurt. How-to at Oh So Pretty here.

rainbowsandunicornscrafts:

DIY Recycled Shrink Plastic Take Out Container Jewelry. Instead of paying for shrink plastic sheets, use #6 plastic (think temporary plastic containers from your supermarket). Tutorial from Rust & Sunshine here. As the author of the tutorial writes, this would make a nice Mother’s Day present:

“Attention Dads: This project involves permanent markers, melting plastic, and tools…and your kids will think it’s totally cool”