Making Lipstick With Crayons

Hey guys, I don't know about you but I have seen this tutorial ALL OVER the Internet about making crayons, a little oil, and maybe Vaseline into lipsticks and tinted lip balms. It is a super fun idea and I really wanted to try it out myself.

For those of you that are wondering, aren't they dangerous to put on your lips? Actually they are a lot less toxic than some Cosmetic brands. Crayola uses food grade Paraffin wax and nontoxic pigments seeing that most lipsticks and balms can have hidden chemicals, I wouldn't say that's too bad!.
Also if you think about it crayons are made so children can chow down on them and not be hurt by them. Though I don't think that other brands would be too bad, as a best bet, I'd grab Crayola it's a brand that I can trust a lil more.


So I went out and bought me a 64 set of beautiful sharpened Crayola crayons. Did I mention that they where beautiful. I mean look at them!

Since there are so many tutorials of how to do this I will just take a few pictures and give you my tips and tricks to make it a easier experiance and I'll link you guys to my favorite video on this subject. Let's get this crayON! (I have a problem), lets get this started!)

First I selected my crayons, I grabbed three old ones and one new. I got a violet red and a blue and just plain red out of my old collection and this pretty dark pink out of the new box, I thought it would be such a gourgous lip color I couldn't resist! I think it's called Tickle Me Pink. 

Next you need to take off the paper, you can just peel at them off with your trusty fingers,

but I used a utility knife to cut them, I hate the feeling of wax under my finger nails!

Next find some containers for this said lipstick, I'm using a old mint tin and this empty Chapstick container, you can also use lipstick tubes, but they can be harder to wash out seeing it's a thinner tube and the product is thick and the color gets EVERYWHERE. The thing about using the tubes it that you have to get out all the oily residue from the past product. But it wasn't too terribley hard I just used Q-tips and some soap and warm water. I used the same utility knife to take off the labels on the chapstick tube. You can also order empty containers like this online.

I chose to put these two colors in the mint tin, and I'm gonna add some Pure Pepperment Extract.

I decided that I'd pair these up together.

Break them in small peices, (the one on the left is too big it took a little bit for it to melt down) then put in in a heat resistant bowl. It's best if you use something you wouldn't mind ending up dumping. So maybe make a run to the Dollar Store.

Follow instructions accordingly when it comes to temp, but otherwhys stick you bowl in you hot water it will begin to heat up it is not a super quick or slow process. So just stick with it.

I didn't take a pic of this but measure up your oils and extracts into a small bowl to mix together decently before combining with crayon.

When everything is well melted, use a heat pad to protect your hands while pouring into container, when using tubes pour SLOWLY it doesn't solidfy too terribly quickly. When you've filled your container of choice, wipe out you waxy bowl, then put the lipstick into the fridge for around 20 to 30 minutes to set. 

It will look something like this when it comes out, I scrolled it out a little and cut of the first bit so it's easier to apply.

 (I wanted to make a crazy color, I mean I have a whole box of CRAYons to work with why not use purple??)

The purple doesn't wear well seeing this recipe is more sheer, but I totally love the Tickle Me Pink one.

(This was the most helpful tutorial.)

Until Later!!

I Don't Really Know What To Title But Trust Me It's Awesome

Hey guys, I just wanted to make a short post. I'm waiting around till we go to my Grandmothers for dinner, and my mom's voice kinda came in the back of my head telling me that scrolling Pinterest for "blog post ideas" is not being productive so I decided to push on through my lazilness open another tab and write this for you guys.

A ton is happening, tomorrow my in the short future brother in law is coming in town on Friday for his and my sisters wedding ( also his birthday). I can't descripe the mix of emotions I have on this subject. Darin and Amber are the sweetest couple EVER and I can't imagine a better man for my sister, but them marrying means them moving to another state. That means my angel of a sister is way to far away for my liking. I love her so dearly and I can't imagine life with out with explosion of awesome I call my big sister.

(And Reagan if you reading this yes I do recognize that the 3rd is your 13th birthday also and I with you a happy one.)

As a kinda going away present, I gave her something that I will later disclose to all of you I'm just waiting for everything about this to be finalized.

 In return she gave me the sweetest thing I have ever gotten in my life the time she put into this and how it describes us so much brings me such joy I can't even type right. The detail is on point, down to the hair sticking out of my bun.

I'm gonna be honest it was hard not to burst into tears, it's kinda like her saying no matter how far no matter how close I will still be there with you.

We are very close (as friends not distance) if you can't already tell and to some people  this might just be a painting, but to me, it reminds me of when we would stay up late drawing and painting on the floor of her room just being together, walking on the beach on vacation. Those times are the best of my life.

I just wanted to share this with you guys!

Thank you for reading, until later!

Round Rabbi Mordecai

Hey guys, I wanted to show you my newest project, it was a little big to show you how to do but I will show you the finished product, but first I need to go into detail why I decided to do this project.

Do you all know of the Elf On The Shelf, basically it's a doll that plays as the eyes and ears of Santa, parents change the position of the elf every night to make it seem as if the elf is going to report to Santa.




 A Jewish family that celebrated Hanukkah decided to make a similar product, they made something called Mensch On A Bench. ( Mensch is a Yiddish word that means, person of integrity, or some one that has a sense of right and wrong, a man you could look up to, a good guy.)

Me and my family have been looking for a travel buddy for a pretty long time now, you may be saying to yourself, "What is a Travel Buddy?" Well it is something we can take to different places, such as on Vacation to take pictures of it doing silly things or just sitting on your shoulder. We were going to buy one of the Mensch on the  Benches to use for that, BUT we couldn't find a Mensch for under thirty bucks, so my Dad got me to make a little dude based off of Mensch. 

So drum roll please.... We made the Round Rabbi, or his given name, Mordecai.

My biggest pet peeve of Mensch is that he had no tassels on his prayer cloth, I fixed that. Mordecai has a shirt, vest, jacket, and prayer cloth with little pants, I made it so you can add pieces of clothing such as a Hawaiian shirt and trunks or a huge fuzzy coat a boots. And since I'm me I couldn't simply sew his vest shut, I had to have little baby buttons!

 I hope you love this little guy as much as I do! 

I am excited to go to my Grandparent's house to show him off to my family. All most every Thursday ever since me and my sisters where very little, Thursday night we go to my Memaws's house for her awesome food and hugs. Often my Aunt and Uncle will be there too, it is such a wonderful thing to have the people you love around you, I hope that you agree!

 I demand that all of you have a awesome day, until later! 

 

Yes we still doing these cat GIFs, I've just been lazy. Plus this one is just adorable!

Wreck It Wednesday #5 / Update On My Life

Hey guys, it has been so terribly long since I've posted, teehee. Thanks for being patient, I really have no excuse... Even though it is not Wednesday, I will post the pictures I would post tomorrow because... unicorns.

Okay let's do this thing.



This this the, make a sudden destructive unpredictable movement with the journal.

So ripped out the page and decided to wreck it instead. I burned some of the corners and teared up the bottom for my cat to play with... because... cats.





This is make a mess clean it up so I drew a dotted line down the center, one side I went crazy and the other I made these 'perfect' little dots I have no idea what I was thinking coloring it with paint. But I think it's kinda cool.





This is the page of good thoughts page, i wasn't sure what to do so I just wrote down some things that make me happy. I might add color to this and if I do I'll post another picture.




















This picture is kinda blurry but you can still see what is happening, this is the color outside the lines page, basically there is just a circle on the page, even though all of the people that have done this page did moons I really wanted to do a moon so I painted a crazy weird galaxy and a moon, I really like the way that it turned out.




Since I haven't been on this in so long, I decided to do a bonus kinda deal.

This the, tie a string to the journal, go for a walk, drag it.





I have so pictures of me dragging it, I took it around in the fields behind my house because my Mom already told me that walking around with a book on a string, made me look a little like a mental patient that was walking it's book instead of it's dog. I didn't think I needed to go around a park like that so i stuck to behind my house.

I taped it up to prevent to pages inside from getting all messed up.



 Then i took it outside...




It's already all scuffed up.








Exactly in a week, I be going back to Paradise Ranch,

 I'm gonna be honest, this was me all winter: 







I need to get here:








Where I'm really at:




















Thank you so much for reading! Until later!

Wreck it Wednesday #4

 Hey guys, it's Wednesday andf you know what that means!!!! Wreck it Wednesday! Let's do this!

This is make paper chain I drew on the slips to make them all purdy with colored pencil and chew on this so i did so and wrote Omm nom nom all over it.

Write one word over and over. so i chose the word epic.

Climb up high and drop the journal so I drew a galexy with the TARDIS

I cut the amount of pages I showed to to give you some pictures of the snow.

It's around 2 inches but underneath that is a few inches of ice, safe huh!

I hope that you had a wonderful Vanlentine's day and Wednesday, Until Later!