Friday, January 23, 2015

Live and Improve Pinterest CHALLENGE!!!

I have been working hard to clean and declutter.  Anyone else?  There I was, on an absolute roll, and then-the inevitable happens.  I come across some 'things'.

What 'things'?  It's something I've either written down, like a recipe, or an odd purchase from the past like the silicon mold I bought long ago for a use I may have one day. What am I to do with these 'things'?  I most likely should just trash them because I didn't use them.  But oh, how I want to use to them!

Running across a myriad of these little items here and there caused me to go into ADD overload. ADD overload means I hit up Pinterest. I began planning my garden in ice cold January, and then it hit me.

All these pins and they are just sitting there.  More mind clutter if not physical clutter.  So, I am challenging myself to actually DO some of the pins.  And now, I'm challenging you too!  Join me! Pick a 'pin' and do it.  Post your results!

The first pin I tried was the bath bomb fizzies.  I had to order some ingredients that I'd never heard of, then make a pretty substantial (although easily cleaned up) mess in order to make a few bath fizzies. They were pretty much a fail, but that is (I think) because the mold was so intricate.  You need to do these with a fairly plain mold.  Here's how they turned out:



I was going to give them out as gifts at my sons Eagle ceremony, but since they didn't turn out right, I used one myself tonight.  It was really nice!  I'm planning to make more--with a different mold.

Lessons learned on this one:

1)  Use more colorant.
2)  Do NOT spill the essential oil.  It will make you ill with the smell.

Now it's YOUR TURN.  Pick a pin and go for it!  If nothing else, you may find some pin links that simply lead to a page that is no longer working.  In that case, hit EDIT and then DELETE PIN. Boom, you've just decluttered!

As for me, I need to return to planning my garden.....

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