DIY: Coffee Sugar Scrub & In-Sync Exotics (Big Cat Rescue)

I've noticed that I haven't posted any DIY posts in a while so I'm posting this before I post my pumpkin oatmeal recipe {It's fall so be prepared for more pumpkin recipes} or a recipe for delicious (but healthy) breakfast cookies. 

My mom is drinking coffee again which means I can stop using my mini coffee maker. I have noticed a lot of  DIY recipes using coffee grounds floating around the web and decided that since we were just throwing away the grounds to save a batch and make something with it. Here is a list of 21 other ways to use leftover coffee grounds. 

Coconut Lime Sugar Scrub (DIY)

  I was actually going to share a recipe for banana date popsicles with ya'll today, but then I logged onto pinterest and found a great DIY recipe. It's been a while since I shared a DIY recipe so I decided to share this post first.

Gus Gus loves TOMS

DIY: Drying out Citrus Peels & 2 Sugar Scrub recipes

DIY projects are an easy, fun, and a budget friendly way to give great homemade gifts for the holidays or any ocassion really. You could even just make a batch of this to keep around the house for those times when you may need to relax and have a mini spa experience.
This year, I decided to make some body scrubs to give as gifts.
There are so many recipes online for homemade body scrubs, but most of them involved fancy oils which I don't have on hand so I decided to make a simple recipe. You can subsitute the extra virgin olive oil for cocunut oil,  vitamin E oil, almond oil, or sometimes baby oil. Some recipes I've seen add vanilla extracts, brown sugar, and even food coloring, but I kept mine simple.Just sugar, oil, and 1 add in ingredient per scrub.

Citrus Sugar Scrub

Drying out your own citrus peels are good to add into a hot bath to help relax or to add into serveral different recipes like homemade candied citrus peel or into teas like mandarin orange peel tea. This lists some of the benefits of oranges and orange zest for the body.