Hair Spray And Perfume

This luxurious balm can be used as a hot cloth cleanser, a massage treatment or as an intense, rich moisturising treatment for dry or ageing skin.

INGREDIENTS

10g Jojoba Oil
10g Almond Oil
10g Rosehip Seed Oil
10g Hemp Seed Oil
10g Borage Oil
Note – You could use different oils to the above as long as the total adds up to 50g
20g Beeswax
30g Shea Butter
10g Manuka Honey
6 drops Rose Otto
4 drops Patchouli

METHOD

Melt the Beeswax and Shea Butter in a bain-marie or bowl over a pan of hot water on the hob. Add the remaining ingredients except for the essential oils and stir gently until everything is liquid. Remove from the heat and add the essential oils. Keep stirring the mixture gently as it cools to mix in the Manuka Honey as this may not totally dissolve with heating. As you mix you will notice the mixture getting thicker and the honey will start to blend in. Once it is a thick but pourable consistency, pour into a clean 100ml jar to set. If you want to make less then just halve all ingredients. Please note that measurements are weighed on a scale in grammes as this is more accurate than measuring out in millilitres.

[Source: thefragrantalchemist.com]

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Today is my grandmothers birthday. I know she won't read this, but last year was her 80th bday, and snow made us stay at home (its on the other side of the country) And this yr we both have to work. So I wanted to congratulate her on here anyway. Im really sorry I can't be there and miss yet another familydinner :(
Ive mailed her a selfmade photocard with chocolates, and hopefully they'll arrive in time. I'll give her her present next time I'll see her, which will be in 2011.


This is a NOTD with Gosh' Green Hawaii.

This is a lovely bright green, wih mulitcoloured(holographic?) glitters.
It's a bit too bright a green, for christmas, otherwise it would have been perfect, with all those glitters.

 Application is easy, and this is 2 coats. Taking it off was a bit of a pain, glitters were ALL over my hands.
Dila gave me the tip to put on some rubber gloves, that would make the glitterpolish come off fairly easy.
I haven't tried it myself yet, but if anyone tries, please let me know how that worked out.

It's a lovely polish and I wish Gosh would make some darker colurs with the exact same glitters in it, they are just stunning!

It's that time of the year again.....I'm not really into christmas, because December is a really busy month for us. Not just with Sinterklaas, Christmas and New Year, but also with a -lot- of bdays in the family.
To me christmas reminds me of snow...and serious request. Hubs and I always follow the djs in the glass house and always try to support SR in one way or another.

I was so excited when I heard that SR would be in Eindhoven this year. It's not that far from my parents, and we usually go to my parents in the same period that the glass house would be there. Unfortunately for me, this year it wasn't the snow that stopped me from going to my grandmothers and my dads bday, this year it was work. We'll probably try to go and see them in January.
Anyway, we still want to donate, like we do every year.
This year there weren't Serious Request stamps available, so we opted for Tshirts instead. That way we can wear those every yr with every Serious Request and make people aware of the dj's and their charitywork.

We ordered these:

For Hubs, since he can rock any colour.

For me, since I really can't rock that pale blue.

So what IS Serious Request?
Last Saturday three 3FM radioDj's, Gerard, Giel and Coen, have locked themselves in, ina glass house. They are going to DJ around the clock, WITHOUT EATINGfrom dec 18th till dec 24th. They do this every year, working togetherwith the Red Cross, to collect money for charity. This year, the charity will be 'Aids Orphans'.
Theese are children that were orpahned because Aids killed their parents. SOme of them have aids themselves, some of them don't. We none of them have education, food or someone to look after them.
The Red Cross wants to change that, and give them back their future.

Previous Serious Requests:

2004: 915.955 euros for the refugees in Darfur.
2006: Studio Brussel joins the action
2008: Swedish Pr/SVT joins the fun
2008: Nairobi, Kenya introduces a Glass House.
2008: 5.737.937 euros is donated to help refugees.
2009: Swiss radiostation DRS 3 and Schweizer Fernsehen join SR.
2009:  7.113.447 euros is donated to help against malaria.

I think it's really good that other countries have joined in on the action. The Glass House in Kenya isn't really about collecting money, it's about giving FREE Aidstests to people. Their government gives free medicine to people with aids, but the aidstest arent for free, and not everyone can afford those. So now they can be tested and know within 20 mins if they have aids. They can get medical help immediately after that. I heard that over 300 tests have been done on the very frist day.

Everyone can help:
You can donate money by sending textmessages, request a certain song, buy stuff from the SR webshop, donate empty bottles(thanx to Coca Cola) or participate in the auction. Lots of stuff has been donated for the auction by famous people, but there are also masterclasses, art, and other stuff to bid on.
You can start your own collection online or think of some other way to collect money.
Every euro matters! Especially this year, when our government decided NOT to double the money, which I think is ridiculous!


 Let's work together and give them back their future!

Since, I shared Daan's birth, I ofcourse had to share his first birthday. (Which was last tuesday, and we celebrated it on sunday).

Here's Sid with Daan, when we just came in the door. I hadn't seen him crawl that fast before!

Daan with our gift, he didn't really understand that the paper wasn't the gift...

And there's Vtech's Vrolijke Vormenkevertje!


My face after our visit and riding our bike through the cold. The lipstick did -not- like the cold.


And my outfit of the day:
Black treggings(or jeggings, whatever), black longsleeves( I was cold), grey long shirt with cameo and peacockfeather print, black bolero and black overknee boots(well they are supposed to be overknee...)

Some days, I just want a lot of colour. This day, I went for pink, shocking pink, since babypink makes me look like a zombie :)

I used Manhattan Multi Effect eyeshadow Violet all over my eyelid. This is a gorgeous bold violet colour, that is really in your face, and not that tamed down purply violet, you see on this pic.




After that I applied some Coastel Scents gelliner True Black, and some Barry M kohlpencil bneath my eyes.

To make the look complete, I applied some Maybelline Superstay color Raspberry on my lips.


I also put my hair in a high ponytail, just beacuse I wanted to.


I got a -lot- of compliments on this look, I wore this to work and apparantly, people liked it :)