DIY: Make Your Own Play Dough!

So the little man has a tutorial for you guys today. He decided he wanted to tell a story with play dough like we used to before he could write. Unfortunately, he let his old dough dry out but had the brilliant idea for us to make more (two activities in one!) It is relatively simple, however with this method adult supervision is necessary, as there is a little brief stove work involved. Here's what you'll need:

DIY: Make Liquid Hand Soap From Bar Soap

Big Revelation: I'm a weirdo. ( Gasp!) One of my weird shticks is that I really dislike bar soap. I have no real reasoning, I just think "Ehhh, it sits out in the air all day collecting bacteria shot through the air by every sneeze, toilet flush and overactive tooth brush. No, thanks." And now that I've sufficiently grossed you out (Me: 1, You Guys: 0), I'll show you what I do with the 4,000 bars my mom buys me at Costco. Turn it into liquid soap!

What You'll Need:
1bar of soap (Equaled 8.5 oz)
A cheese grater
8 cups of water
Large Pot
Funnel
Blender (optional)
Food Coloring (optional)
Essential oil (optional)

Instructions:
1. Use cheese grater to grate soap up into tiny little pieces.
2. Boil 8 cups of water.
3. Add in soap flakes, stirring until completely mixed.
4. Once soap flakes are completely dissolved, remove from heat.
5. Let cool for about an hour (it should be thicker now) then stir again. Let cool for several more hours (at least 3) stirring a little once every hour.

Optional parts:
You can add in a few drops of food coloring to change the color once you have removed it from the heat. I used orange.
You can also add any essential oil you may have during this step.
If you are making this before bed and are not going to be stirring continuously it will be a little clumpy in the morning, just run it through the blender, on low, for about 2 seconds and it'll be the perfect consistency.

NOTE: This makes quite a bit of hand soap so you'll need a container to store it in. I use old ice cream quart containers and it fills it about 75%. It'll last a long while. All from one bar of soap! 

xxo,
Prima

Day Project | Deco Glasses Case

To Infinty and Beyond!

Ahh the infinity dress..
To think a dress that can cost upwards of $200 is so cheap and easy to make.
Seriously, you can make it in a few easy steps with almost whatever stretch fabric you have in only about 30 minutes -  if that!
I made these two for myself yesterday and a couple for my mom.

Read on to find out how

Hanging Jewelry Holder

It's a two-fer!
(Just like from my favorite show, 30 Rock!)
This jewelry holder was inspired by a beautiful, but terribly overpriced, holder I saw on Hautelook a couple weeks ago. Theirs was a bit different - it had vinyl in place of the mesh I used, and the fabric covered the entire hanger in their model. Since I already made a couple at-home jewelry holders I decided to make one that could travel with me as well and thus, this was born.

Instructions are below if you'd like to make your own.

Chic Sheets!

Who knew bed sheets could be so chic, right!?
So I've been meaning to post this since yesterday but apparently Blogger hates me so..
yeah.
Anyway, here it is! How to make a very cute maxi skirt from a full-sized bed sheet.
All you need is a sheet, a sewing machine, matching thread, pins, a zipper (or hook and eye) and about two hours of spare time!

(P.S. Mom, please don't let this deter you from giving me free sheets again!!)

Make Yourself a Sleep Mask!

So you can probably tell by now that I'm OBSESSED with animal print, right?
Well, I had this leopard print skirt that ended up being far too short in the back (weeps!)
so I repurposed it into this gorgeous sleep mask. And if you have any scrap fabric, you can, too!