Crunchy Betty
Food on Your Face
Shoot. Running behind today - bit off more than I can chew. So, without further ado, the third of four Tuesdays Outside the Box: Today featuring things to do with Borax and handy ways to fix oily, unruly, or otherwise …
Sometimes I forget one of the wonderful things about blogging is that I'm allowed to not be perfect.
Nay.
One of the wonderful things about LIFE is that we're all allowed to not be perfect.
I spent the last two days …
It’s almost that time of year, when heaven appears in little pink forms all around us. Heaven made physical: the rose petal. I love inhaling the fragrant scent of roses and though I’ve planted a couple around my house, they …
Do you remember that time I totally cheated? No. You probably don't, because it just happened.
For this Tuesdays Outside the Box, I've actually combined both ideas into one; or, rather, let's just say there's a whole lot …
Something you want. What is it? What do you want? Choose one thing.
Write it down. (I'm not kidding. Write it down.) We'll get to why you're doing this soon.
In the meantime, have you ever read Dale Carnegie's How to …
Before you start reading this, I want you to grab your rosemary essential oil (or a squished fresh rosemary leaf or even some cracked dried rosemary) and take a deep whiff. Why? Because it will help you retain all this …
I hope you all put your thinking caps on throughout the week to come up with outside the box ideas for ways to use flour or help alleviate seasonal allergies. But! If, for some reason, you couldn't think of any crazy new …
You're a 5-year-old kid.
Yes, you. Right now. You're 5 years old and you're playing quietly with your chalk, and Johnny snot-nose next to you has blocks out, which he's throwing all over the ground. It doesn't even look …
However, three of the top comments were energizing enough to get me off my butt and immersed in lemon. I had to try them immediately. And they are worthy! So worthy of praise and a dedicated blog post.
But before I get to …
What can you do with a wooden spoon?
Quick. Think about it. You can stir things, right? Like soup. Or pudding. Or pudding soup.
But if you took a little more time, you crafty people could think of a million things to …
I hunted and searched through my brain for a funny and/or inspiring wood story to accompany this post. Perhaps something about trees and how they symbolize the seasons we all go through as human beings? Maybe something about …
Her name was Millie, the girl who sporadically made high school my personal nightmare.
She'd stroll carelessly through the hallway with her pack of slightly quieter friends and go out of her way to brush by me and cackle …
Moving makes it to the short list of the top 5 most stressful things you can do in your lifetime.
Since leaving the warm, safe womb of high school I have moved 16 times. That is not an exaggeration. 16 times. I used say …
A few months ago a friend of mine was chatting with someone else and mentioned me as her “crunchiest” friend. Intrigued, her companion asked, “What do you mean? Like, she only buys organic and recycles everything?” “No,” …
It all started yesterday when I was haphazardly tearing things from my wall.
Eventually, I reached the picture tiles - which had held up nicely for seven months using only sticky squares - and tried to pull one down. …
Did you know that 65.8% of you never clean your makeup brushes? This is a statistic I found in my brain, where I make things up that sound authoritative. But I bet I'm not far off.
It's okay. Until I discovered this …
There is a tension belt in your head. At optimal levels, it's stretched just tight enough to keep everything running smoothly, with a tiny bit of slack for moments of stress. The tension you feel on a daily basis - the one …
I like to imagine it went something like this:
Five women were sitting around a table eating sprouted whole grain scones, talking about the latest in health scandals. Martha turned to Jody and with a sly smile whispered …
Are you ready to take a heady, esoteric journey through all the emotional, spiritual, and soulful lessons I've learned over the past 5 months on Pinterest?
YES? YES?
Too bad. It's not going to happen. I had a post that …
There is something about the intimate quality of handmade products, the realness and the everything I talked about yesterday. And, as we've discussed so many times here, there are a lot of good things about not making your …
Let's talk about trust.
And money.
And stuff.
In the olden days of yore, money served one purpose: To exchange your time for goods or services. It was pretty honest, you know? "Hey, Octavius, can I buy that gold …
A year and a half ago, I tested several homemade glass cleaners.
Some of you may be aware of this. Some of you who saunter over here from Pinterest (bless its internety heart) probably came here just because of that …
I used extra virgin olive oil in my oil cleansing routine, and I broke out like a 13-year-old would if they washed their face with bacon pizza.
That is not an uncommon complaint, although it's not the rule. Occasionally, …
Guess what? We’ve already passed the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. And that means – hooray! – Spring is really on it’s way.
You may be looking out your window now at piles of snow, but it’s not …
