My project last week February 19th

I finally was able to go back up to Brushy Mountain Bee Supply this weekend.  They're only open Monday thru Friday, when I'm normally working, so I have to take time off work to get up there.  But, I now have a bee jacket and veil.  YAY!  Hubby and I are considering our options on the hive we'll use for me.  I'm tempted to use a top bar hive, but unless I wanna spend $300, I'm going to have to build it myself it seems.

Since I was there, I went ahead and got some things I'd been wanting to get for making some of the medicines and cleaners around the house.  (Sounds almost menacing, to me, for some reason).  But I bought a couple essential oils, some coconut oil, and some beeswax (since we're not really generating a lot in our one hive right now).  Well, Sunday afternoon, while it was snowing and yucky outside, I attempted a few recipes I've found on Pintrest for various things.  First the first aid ointment.  It turned out well, but with one note, I've got to buy a better shredder.  My old cheap plastic one has finally bit the dust and pretty much the handle has broken to bits.  I then proceeded to just scrape the shredder across the beeswax to shred it, but in the process, I also shredded my thumb.  Good thing I was making first aid ointment, huh?  LOL.  I put it to use right away.  :)  I made 3 large (4 ounces each), and 4 small (either 1 or .5 oz each) containers of the ointment.  It smells wonderful, and the kids are already coming to me when they get a scratch or something, "Mom, I think I need some of your first aid cream."  Here's the link: http://frugallysustainable.com/2012/01/building-your-medicine-chest-first-aid-antiseptic-ointment/

While I had the things out, I also whipped up some homemade deodorant, from yet another idea on Pintrest.

I've got SO much I need to do right now!  I want to start planning my garden, get some landscaping type things done here at the house, get the housecleaning caught up,  get some sewing done, and also building a beehive and contacting someone to buy some bees!  Oh, and a beekeeping class that I REALLY want to take starting next month.  *sigh*  Busy, busy bee!

Tara's Rose Headband

Tara, my youngest has recently become totally enamored with headbands for her hair.  I saw a picture on Pintrest about how to make a fabric rose bracelet.  I basically took the idea and expanded it.  I made three roses with twice the length that the tutorial suggested, and then made more roses (smaller ones, per directions on the tutorial) to fill out the top (it took 4 more, 7 total roses).  The tutorial said to glue the roses to felt, and then glue that to ribbon.  Smartie me thought, "Why glue it to the ribbon?  I'll sew it!"  Halfway through the third,  large rose, my poor fingers cried out and simply refused to push the needle and thread through anymore.  It was just too hard to get the needle through the glue that was gluing the roses to the felt.  Oh well, I glued the rest, and it turned out pretty well.  Oh, and one other change, is that I pressed the strips with my iron after the first couple roses.  I found it just too hard to keep the fabric from straightening back out while winding and twisting.













Here's a link to the tutorial that I followed...
http://soisawthistutorial.blogspot.com/2011/05/rosette-bracelet-tutorial.html