Honey Balm

I can't sleep and so here I am tinkering with my blog. I was not ironically at all reading Tinkers in bed a bit ago. I've had a growing headache while futzing around and just leaned my head back and felt a huge snap-pop and a surge of relief. It was so noticeable and immediate. Weird!

Anyway, there are so many lovely blogs and mine is so very rough but I wanted to share a few photos of my little lip balm making. It was so fast and easy. I wish I had more tins to fill! I have a lip balm I personally love that has lavender and sweet orange. It's so wonderful but I think enjoying that combo might be less widespread and enthusiastic.

First I poured a little pot of tea. (yerba mate latte) - Thank you, T for the lovely pot the last time I saw you! Things moved so quickly I didn't even sip this tea until I was all done.

 

The honey is from my mom's friend. I have only a few spoons of my mom's honey left and it's precious. It's much, much lighter than the one in this photo. I think my mom's bees were visiting mostly dandelions before they up and left.

Between it being night when I did this, my countertops and the gifts - things are looking so...brown! What we have here is homemade apple butter, cinnamon dough ornaments Beebs and I made and then the lip balm, obviously. Speaking of brown, I have some brown bag labels to put on the tops. ha.

Lip balm set up very quickly, almost too quickly as the last bit I "poured" was getting gloppy and wasn't perfectly smooth when I put it into the tins. It smells like sweet peppermint. Recipe is here. I have the book this recipe originated from prior to tweaking and it's great! Thank you for that one also, T!! ha.
(Man, I didn't realize until just re-visiting how copycat my photos look of Soulemama's. Heh. They're like ooh, lemme try that angle. I honestly did not realize it until now, after the fact. Imitation, flattery, blah blah. Anyway. oops. I feel embarrassed.)

Oh and before I forget, I'm also doing another recipe from the book for simple little muslin bags filled with epsom salts, baking soda, lavender buds, lavender oil. You hang it from your tub spout and let the water splursh through as your tub fills then drop that baby in to lush up your water while you soak. You can also rub it on your skin for a bit of exfoliating lavenderness. Heaven much?

Thanksgiving was nice. My family is..the same. Beebs loved having some kids to play with. Ate lots of good food. So many hours of cooking and I swear to you I think once we'd sat down and started eating in no more than 15 minutes, almost everyone had left the table. That's a weird feeling like, but..wait..we just! gah.

This starts birthday week. On my actual birthday day we have Beebs' first Christmas Program. They're singing 2 songs and I'm so excited!! I have a little girl and she's singing in a little preschool program! Whoah. She's been singing the songs for weeks and it's pretty much the most adorable thing ever. "There was a little baby...OH LORD!" One day she was singing this in her sweet little voice "There was a little baby..OH GOD!" bahahaha!