Oatmeal foot mask and Chocolate mask

Skincare is so important and it's so fun to do ladies night with self made masks.

That's why I blog  today to recipes for self made skincare.

Oatmeal foot mask:

We pamper our hole body but we forget often to look after our feets but what would we do without our feeds? Oatmeal is renowned for its ability to heal and soothe dry,sensitive skin.This mask is to recommend for people with dried feet.If you use it as often as you can your feet become faster smooth. Let's spoil your feet!

Ingredients:

1 large mixing bowl

1large spoon

Smaller container with a lid

2cups of ground rolled oats

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup of honey

1/2 cup of olive oil

Directions:

The fastest way to make the mask is mix the oil, honey, flour and oats in the bowl,until you get a thick gooey mask that might be slightly gritty or lumpy.If you want you can add some essential oils.Place the mask in a container and use it straight away. You will not be able to store it once it's made.

How to use:

At first soak your feet in hot water and baking soda, that makes it much easier to exfoliating your feet. After peel your feet with a foot scrub, rinse it with warm water and pat them dry. Now can you apply a couple of hands of feet mask to your feet. Preferentially over a bathtub cause the application can make a huge mess. Once the mask is on your feet allow it to soak in to your feet and skin for 20 to 30 minutes.

After rinsing  your feet again with warm water and you may want to add a foot cream to your feet to keep them well moisturized. 

Chocolate face mask:

Now we come to your face. I love chocolate masks but I have the problem that I want could eat the hole mask before I put it in my face. ;)

Ingredients:

1/3 cup cacao or cocoa powder 

1/4 cup of raw honey

2tbsp of mashed avocado

3tsp of cornmeal

Directions:

Blend all the ingredients together until creamy. Now apply the mask with clean hands to your face.
Now let it soak for 15-20 min. Now can clean your face withwarm water.



I hope you liked the ideas, cause the first one is, from my point of view, something special, what you do not see everyday. :)

x Laura

DIY

Do It Yourself becomes more and more a trend.That's the reason why I decided to do a blog about that topic, cause I saw this super cute idea. :)

You are going to need:
-12-cup egg cartons(you'll need 5 cartons to make a small mirror or 12 to make a large mirror)
-How-glue gun and hot-glue stick
-Mirror tile or small mirror(frame removed)
-3mm MDF

Notes:
Cut MDF 6cm longer and wider than mirror if you want a single row of roses, or 16cm longer and wider if you want a double row.


-Make a mirror with a flower design that is made out of none other than egg cartons-

-Cut 1 split into each corner of 1 cup(to make 4 slits).
Cut each piece into a petal shape.Repeat with third cup, but cut petals a little smaller, then roll so petals curve and make a bud shape.

-Hot glue the 3 layers together,offsetting middle layer so petals sit in spaces between pentads of bottom layer. Finish with layer of smaller petals. Repeat process until you've made enough roses to completely surround mirror. Spray roses with white paint, if desired. Leave to dry.

-Measure and mark 3 cm in across top and down side from 1 corner of MDF. Rule i line to join marks and saw off triangle. Repeat for all corners. Position mirror in centre of MDF, trance around, then remove.

-Drill 2 pairs of holes in frame above mirror position. Thread though picture hanging wire and secure. Paint MDF border with black paint and allow to dry.Glue mirror in position.

-Starting at 1 corner, hot glue roses to frame, bedding petals to fill in gaps if needed.Continue until frame is covered.

Finish!:) Have fun with your new mirror. I also use it as a photo frame.

I hope you like it. :) 

x Laura

Skincare is so important and it's so fun to do ladies night with self made masks.

That's why I blog  today 2 recipes for self made skincare.

Oatmeal foot mask:

We pamper our hole body but we forget often to look after our feets but what would we do without our feeds? Oatmeal is renowned for its ability to heal and soothe dry,sensitive skin.This mask is recommended for people with dry feet. If you use it as often as you can your feet become smooth. Let's spoil your feet!

Ingredients:

1 large mixing bowl

1large spoon

Smaller container with a lid

2cups of ground rolled oats

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup of honey

1/2 cup of olive oil

Directions:

The fastest way to make the mask is mix the oil, honey, flour and oats in the bowl,until you get a thick gooey mask that might be slightly gritty or lumpy.If you want you can add some essential oils.Place the mask in a container and use it straight away. You will not be able to store it once it's made.

How to use:

At first soak your feet in hot water and baking soda, that makes it much easier to exfoliating your feet. After peel your feet with a foot scrub, rinse it with warm water and pat them dry. Now you can apply a couple of hands of feet mask to your feet. Preferentially over a bathtub cause the application can make a huge mess. Once the mask is on your feet allow it to soak in to your feet and skin for 20 to 30 minutes.

After rinse your feet again with warm water and may want to add a foot cream to your feet to keep them well moisturized. 

Chocolate face mask:

Now we come to your face. I love chocolate masks but I have the problem that I want could eat the hole mask before I put it in my face. ;)

Ingredients:

1/3 cup cacao or cocoa powder 

1/4 cup of raw honey

2tbsp of mashed avocado

3tsp of cornmeal

Directions:

Blend all the ingredients together until creamy. Now apply the mask with clean hands to your face and any other part of your body.Gently massage your mask into your skin, leaving it on for 15-20 min, than rinse it off with warm water.

I hope you liked it. :)

x Laura

Pumpkinmuffin

It’s nearly Halloween!! That’s why I thought it’s time for a recipe with pumpkin. With this delicius muffins you gonna be the star on the Halloweenparty.

Ingredients:

cupcakes:                                 frosting:

4eggs,slightly beaten                  230g cream cheese,softened

170g Oil                                   3tsp butter magarine,softened

500g sugar                               1tbsp orange juice     

425g pumpkin                           2tsp vanilla extract

205g flour                                1 1/2 tsp freshly grated orange peel  

30g Corn Starch                        440g powdered sugar

4tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice

2tsp Baking Powder

1tsp baking soda

3/4tsp salt



                                                      To make cupcakes:

Blend the eggs,oil,sugar and pumpkin in a large mixing bowl;set aside.Stir together dry ingredients in a separate bowl.Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and beat until well blended. Pour into lined muffin tins. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake in preheated 350 degrees oven for 30 minutes or until center springs back when touched. Cool 30 minutes. Spread with frosting. 

To make frosting:Beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy.Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth.Spread over cooled cupcakes.

Ready to serve! Bonne appetite! 

My favorite snack for this time of the year

I'm just a yoghurtlover, that's why one of my favorite dishes is a kind of yoghurt. 
It's pretty easy, quick an delicious.

Ingredients:

500g Yoghurt(pure) 

1Apple

2tbsp Cinnamon 
few drops of lemon juice 

and if its not sweet enogh for you some sugar or sweetener.(

First peel the apple, than grated it and mix it with the rest.

Ready to serve.:)

I know it's really easy but still really yummy.

x Laura

Autumn fashion

Today is a quite nice day but it starts to get colder and colder.

Autumn is is coming...!

Actually I love automn, cause of the things you can wear. :)

It's cold enough to wear jackets but not so cold that you can't be outside cause it's freezing..

My favorite colour for this autumn? Orange and still fucsia! I love to wear colour in autumn and winter cause everything is grey and brownish.. and if I start to wear just brown,black and grey I would get depressed but I mix it up with some colour that let me smile. :)

I just love this outfit it looks like autumn but it has still some colour.

Whats your favorite colour and outfit for autumn ?

I hope you like my blog. 

x Laura

apple swan

That is the apple swan and after I did that my sister started to eat apples. ;) 

If you are interested in the link just message me.

I hope you like my blog.

x Laura

How you become healthier!

I have an addiction for healthy food, but on the other side i CAN NOT live without chocolate. 

You don't like veggies and fruits? When I was younger me neither but I learn it's all about how you "present and design" the food.

Me for example. I love Chinese and I thought about how can you create your own chinese food that it has the chinese flavor and is still health. After some experimentation I found out that I just need soy sauce.

I know sounds a little weird but it's true. I looked up some recipes and I just put in some soy sos and it worked i loved it much more than the original version. I eat now everything with soy sauce. Even my salad soy sauce instead of dressing.

So if you want to become healthier you don't need to do a lot you just follow this few steps:

1. Think about what kind of food you like most. (Italian,chinese,...)

2. You think about "your" special ingredient that reminds you of that kind of food.(Of course if shouldn't be an unhealthy ingredient. Its often just one spice.

If you don't know which one, just ask that I can try to help.

3.You look up some healthy recipes and put in "your special ingredient". Of course you can variegate with your special ingredient.

Can you please tell me in the comments if it worked for you? I have a few friends and they love the trick but of course I know that its just MY personal trick and not everyone likes it. So it would be interesting to here it from other people if you think the same about it. Please don't judge me, like i sad its MY PERSONAL experiments that showed that it worked for me.

The second think I wanted to talk about is. Its everything about how you present the food. For example my little sister didn't want to eat apples. Than I found a little video on youtube that showed how to make little animlas out of fruits and the apple one was so easy that I straight away tried it out. The end of the story is my sister is now addicted to apple. ;) 

And thats with everything like that if you show just a little that you did some afford doing it (just in the presentation on the plate, takes like 3 minutes) i'm hundred percent sure that that the others going to try it and even they still don't like it they tried it. That's another REALLY important point never stop trying!!

So I hope you like it and I could help you a little.

x Laura