Homemade parsley toner

My oh my, I have been busy lately.  Went back home to Utah for my best friend's wedding over the weekend and now we are on our way to North Dakota to see about moving up there.  Plus, I'm trying to get ready for Harlee's birthday, and there is way to many cool ideas for a rainbow party and as usual I have decided to do a ton of crafty-take-up-lots-of-time projects.  I guess busy is a way of life right?

I love toner. My favorite kind is $12 a bottle and I use about a bottle a month.  My toner consumption might be just a bit above national average but, when I say I love something, I mean I LOVE it.

There are more than a few benefits of parsley for your skin.  My face was almost completely free of breakouts while I used this parsley toner and my face felt clean and refreshed after use.  And it really couldn't be any easier to make!

Simmer 1/2 cup parsley in 1 1/2 cups filtered water for 5 minutes. Let the parsley soak in the water til cool and strain.  I put some of mine in a little bottle to take to the bathroom and some in a plastic container and froze it.  My toner lasted about a week and a half before turning sour.  Then I just unfroze a bit more.  I'm sure you could keep it much longer in the fridge but I'm way to much of a lazybones time saver to walk to the fridge every time I wanna use it.

I would like to try out a few other recipes for homemade toner but I think the parsley toner is going to be hard to beat!

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Unicorn braids on little girls

I love unicorn braids.  I just wish Cheyenne's hair was long enough to also have unicorn braids. Oh well, here is six ideas to get the unicorn braid in your little darlings hair.

trash to fabulous - coffee grounds as body scrub

Who doesn't love free stuff? I certainly do.  I am a house wife after all.  Saving money IS my job.  I like to think of the money I save as my income.  If I manage to save our family $100 a month, then my income is $1200 a year.

Since I could buy this Lamborghini and I haven't, I think we can safely say my income is well over $387,000 and that's just for this year so far, and it's only March.  Am I the best ever housewifey or what!

I super love exfoliating my skin.  Dead skin just isn't my style. Body scrubs run between $5 and $60.  I'm not sure who spends $60 on a few ounces of body scrub but that isn't my style either.  And who really knows what is in a body scrub?  I have a jar that was gifted to me and tried to look but it didn't even have a label on it.  It could have cyanide in it for all I know.  Cyanide in my body does not appeal to me (as Harlee would say).

Looking at this makes me wanna hop in the shower!

There is about 6 million different homemade sugar scrub recipes that have non toxic ingredients, BUT you have to buy those things to make it.

Perfect solution.  Used coffee grounds.   It's free, it works great, it feels amazing.  Plus there is a ton of extra benefits to using coffee.  It's moisturizing and not greasy.  It's supposed to reduce cellulite, age spots, wrinkles, stretch marks and other uglies due to the caffeine and stuffy stuff in it.  I have no idea if that's true or not, but it feels nice, and did I mention it's free?

I was going to post a picture of what it looks like when your using it.  I even took pictures.  But the other day we went to a mechanics shop to pick up some paperwork and Cheyenne saw the picture of the naked calendar lady (despite my best attempts to stand in the way) and screams "that you that you that you mommy naked".

So I thought it would be a good idea to not post pictures of me naked on the internet.  It was just my leg but still.  I am NOT a naked model!

Also, my legs are ghostly white and no one wants to see that.