Thrifty Fun!

I love learning new and easy ways to do things! As you can see from my bonanzle site I really like making soaps and have been looking into making some other bath and beauty type products.

I subscribe to a newsletter called thrifty fun which always has some great projects, that are sent in from other readers, that for the most part are pretty easy to do and easy on your wallet. You can also send them things you want to learn and readers will send in tips to help! How cool is that?

Today's tip was how to make bath salts for mother's day. What busy mom wouldn't like a good long soak? But with today's economy this is a luxury item that many of us can no longer afford to buy.

Here's how to make it yourself and for cheap!

Approximate Time: Less than 1 hour
Supplies:
1 cup Epsom salt
1/2 cup baking soda
10 drops essential oil
food coloring
clear bottle with lid
funnel
spoon
small bowl
white card stock
foam or silk flower
pen
scrap piece of ribbon

Instructions:Stir together salt, soda, and oil in a small bowl. Add some food coloring and mix well. (Make several different colors and layer them in a bottle, if desired.) Use a funnel to pour the salt into a clear decorative bottle.

Create a gift card using card stock decorated with a flower.
Attach it to the bottle with ribbon with the following instructions: Pour 2 or 3 tablespoons into running bath water to make skin feel smooth and soft.

By Rachel's Mom from Wilkesboro, NC

I'm totally going to try this! I'll post and let you know how I do. Let me know if you try it!

More great giveaways!

Here's another giveaway I entered through the blog carnival.

mama's miracles is giving away a $30 victoria's secret gift card!

Biggest Loser

Did anyone watch tonight??? Absolutely amazing! Who would have thought at the beginning of this season that any of those people could run a marathon??

Who ever does the casting for this show does an awesome job. There's four people left and each one has a truly inspiring story.

There's Tara (the former model) who has lost the most amount of weight of any woman in the history of the show and the highest weight loss percentage of anyone man or woman!

Helen is the oldest female to ever make it to the final 3 and has lost 103lbs!

Finally, there is Mike and Ron who are father and son. One of them won't make it to the final round, which one is decided by going to NBC's website and voting. Mike is the son and he's lost the most weight of anyone in the history of the biggest loser and is half of the only couple still together at the ranch. Ron is Mike's dad and will do just about anything to see his son win. They both had to make a video supposed to be saying why America should vote for them to stay and Ron's video was all about how everyone should vote for Mike. Absolutely amazing...

Season finale is next Tuesday and I know that I'll be tuning in!

My first giveaway!!

Inspired by the upcoming blog giveaway carnival at mommosttraveled I've decided to have my own giveaway! Starts Monday May 4th and ends Friday at 11pm CST.

I'm giving away one of my favorite scrabble tile pendants. These pendants are all handmade by me. The winner will win the one pictured to the right. Shows a beautiful decoupaged watercolor like picture.

These babies are HOT right now!! Super cute and stylish, they can be worn with anything and so reasonable priced you can have one for every day of the week!

Here's how you can enter
First Entry: All you have to do to enter is go to my Bonanzle booth PlumbPretty and tell me what your favorite item is! Don't forget to make sure you leave me a way to contact you so I can notify you if you're the winner!

Second Entry: You can receive a second entry by subscribing to my blog. Just leave a comment saying "I subscribed"

Third Entry: You can receive a third entry by tweeting about my blog on Twitter.com just leave me a comment with your twitter user name and that you tweeted!

Fourth Entry: If you have a blog you can post a line on one of your blog entries about my giveaway and link back here.

Only one of each type of entry please. Open to all residents of US and Canada.

That's it! Enjoy the giveaway and make sure to click on the blog carnival button to see all the other great giveaways this week!

Blog giveaways!

There's all of these great blog giveaways going on right now at mommosttraveled blog! I'm so excited! Maybe I'll have a giveaway of my own soon......In the mean time here's the blog giveaways I've been entering

http://mommosttraveled.com/home-soda-maker-giving-it-away-now/
http://mommosttraveled.com/is-that-your-pillow/
http://mommosttraveled.com/tagz-youre-it/

and she's hosting a blog giveaway carnival that going to be awesome! You gotta check it out! I added her blog button and the carnival button on the right side of my blog.