Gifts Reveal!

Okay y'all, now that the gift giving of Christmas is over, I can finally reveal all of the homemade gifts I made!

 For my aunt who is a teacher, of course.

 If I was better at crafts, I would have loved to distress this hello sign, but I didn't want to ruin it, in case it didn't go well.

 I made a homemade vanilla! Basically you put a few cut up vanilla beans into vodka (ya girl had to go into the liquor store, can you believe?) and let it sit for two months!

 Here is the finished product. If you want instructions, I got them from here.

I got most of my crafts from Wood Connection, what a great store for stuff that makes you feel like a champion.
But yay! Now Christmas is over, what a fabulous holiday. Hopefully everyone had a great one!

Candle-Making Time

I recently bought a candle from Pier 1, a pine-scented one that makes my house smell like a delicious pine forest. Unfortunately, it ran all the way down after like, 3 days, holy cow so fast. So I decided to make a pine candle of my own since its so easy. I just got a pine scented oil from Michaels', and used leftover wax from when I made candles a couple of years ago. I melted it down in a double broiler-situation and then added the scents. I poured it into the same container that the old candle came in, just to recycle. Here it is right after pouring:

 And after it hardened:

And now the wicks are cut and it's ready to use! 

This was actually pretty fun - I'm glad I decided to do this.