A Remedy for your Flu

Sometimes the pills won't work or you just don't wanna take them into your system when you're just having a cold or flu. The doctor would tell you to stay put and keep stuffing yourself with warm fluids anyway so let's try this.

You'll need:

• 1 orange
• 2 lemons
• 1 table spoon turmeric
• about 5cm ginger
• 1/2 cup honey

1) Peel the ginger. Chop the ginger and the lemons with the orange to the shapes of your preference.

2) Add the rest of the ingredients and mix. 

3) Put into a container and store.

When you need it, take about two spoonfuls per cup and pour warm water over it (not hot, that would kill the honey).

Home-Made Rose and Coconut Body Cream

I've done some experimenting and came up with a really good product for winter. My skin tends to get dry in this cold season so I needed something to help me with it. I had a ton of different oils I usually use for my split ends or into bath so I could make it very rich. But coconut oil with just one other oil will do the trick, too. Apart from glycerin all ingredients are in food quality (virgin oils) which means it's good for you - say bye to the chemicals ;-)= 

And since coconut oil and rose water smell so good, so will you!

You'll need:

• 1 cup melted coconut oil
• 2 table spoons jojoba oil
• 1 table spoon cocoa butter
• 1 table spoon rose oil
• 1 table spoon avocado oil
• 1 table spoon rose water
• 1 table spoon glycerin

1) Melt all the ingredients if they need melting (coconut oil and cocoa butter probably will) and mix them in a bowl with the exception of glycerin - that one goes in in the last step.

2) Put the bowl somewhere cold for half an hour (it's winter so balcony was great place to put it in but you can use fridge). You know it's ready when it becomes solid BUT you can still press your finger through it.

3) Whip it. Use a hand mixer and beat it till light and fluffy. Now you can add the glycerin and whip it some more.

4) Put it in a jar and use it on your dry areas (split ends, chappy lips, dry elbows...). You may use it all over your body unless you have oily skin - in that case your skin won't be able to soak it all in fast and you will be shiny for a long time (you can apply it at night and you should be OK by the morning).

Easter Hatchings

You will love this DIY because you don't do it yourself at all :-)= All you need to be good at is shopping. So, if you have a very talented friend (http://osobni-loutky.cz/), you will obtain decadent evil-looking "Easter" eggs. I thought they would make a lovely Easter decoration but they look so good it would be a pity not to stare at them all year round.  So I think they will become a permanent sight in our living room.

Anyway, apart from the obvious you need a glass bowl of sorts and roasted coffee beans. Yup, the evil chicks have been brewing in the lowest pits of hell, so naturally, they smell of sulfur. Coffee serves as great odor neutralizer, therefore you want it. I mean, if you don't want your home to smell like coffee then you have to wait it out - the smell will fade eventually. Or you can replace it with sand or something. But it won't be as badass as the coffee beans, I can assure you. 

So take your bowl, fill it with coffee beans and gently plant in the eggs. Easy, beautifully decadent and nice-smelling! What more could you possibly want?!

I know why the caged duck sings ;-)=

This is just a really quick fix - I thought my most awesome rubber duck deserved to be on special display, separated from the mundane ones. So when I saw this cheap cage in the store I couldn't resist the temptation. Since the pattern down on the cage was too high I put a plastic something (it used to store my pins) underneath the duck so that the count Duckula would be seen in his full glory. And voilá! Nice decoration was born ;-)=