The Day Dreamer Moisturizer Recipe

Some of my little creams

This has been so fun for me to do. 

I promised you the recipe so here is the recipe for 

The Day Dreamer Moisturizer:

In a microwave safe glass bowl add:

1 1/2 cups water

1 tsp. citric acid

Heat until citric acid is completely melted, add:

4 Tbls. Emulsifying wax (or beeswax)

2 tsp.glycerin 

2 Tbls. (heaping) steric acid 

heat until all is melted, don't boil, add:

1/3 cup Fractionated Coconut Oil and Rose Hip Oil - mixed half and half. 
1 teaspoon (5ml) Vitamin E Oil.

Whip with an immersion blender. 

Now add the 1/2 cup ice water or ice chips (more is fine if needed to make light and fluffy.).

When cooler add:

8 drops Lavender essential oil

1 drop Chamomile essential oil

8 drops Geranium EO

4 drops Lemongrass EO

6 drops Rose Absolute EO

5 drops Vanilla EO

2 drops Ylang Ylang EO

2 drops Peppermint EO

When cool - Whip, Whip, Whip with an emmersion blender until all light and fluffy. 

Reminders:

Be sure to heat water to almost boiling for citric acid 

Use 1/2 or more cups of ice chips or ice water and whip until light and fluffy

For the sake of the oils don't add the essential oils until the mixture is cool.

Put in little jars with lids. You will love it. Your face will love it. Your friend's faces will love it!

Love,
Grammy T.

Handmade Lotions with Essential Oils and Bach Flowers

Home Made Creams and Recipes

I learned how to make all natural lotions from my sweet 
neighbors Julie and Francine. 

Here is the basic recipe;
1 1/2 cups Water
4 Tbs. Emulsifying Wax 
2 tsp. Glycerin
1/3 cup Sweet Almond, Grape-seed or Fractionated Coconut Oil
2 Tbs. (heaping)  Steric Acid 
1 tsp. Citric Acid

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and microwave for 2 minutes or until water is milky whit, careful not to boil. When it has cooled some (I add some ice cubes to help it cool) blend with an immersion blender until smooth and fluffy. Add you oils and and blend again. Then pour it into jars or bottles. 

I have made: 

• Queens Cream (a cleanser)
• Day Dreamer (a moisturizer)
• Diva Dreams (a moisturizer for day and night)
• Night Watch ( fabulous night moisturizer and repair for night time)
• Desert Diva (An Aloe based gel moisturizer for those "too much sun times".)
• Sulky Sultan (A Bach flower and essential oil Rescue cream) for anxiety and stress.
• Flower Power (A Bach flower and essential oil Energy cream) for a natural pick me up. -     16 drops Energy Bach Flowers and a little essential oil of you choice. 

Do those sound fun or what? We have all noticed a difference in our own skin since we have used these new face body care products. They are fun to make and fun to use. 

Love,
Grammy T. 

To order the essential oils and fractionated coconut oil that I use go to here. 

To order lotion making supplies go Pinemeadows.

Pretty new quilt

When I was in beauty college 

one of the horrors that was brought

to our attention 

was lice, 

yukky lice. 

I'd never thought much about lice at all really. 

Well one day they shut our school down early because one of the girls had 

found lice crawling around in the shampoo bowl. 

EWWE! 

It makes me itch to tell you about it. 

Our instructors all bleached their hair that night to kill any unseen threat. 

About two weeks later I was shampooing a clients hair and I noticed 

tiny little flying insects and of course you know what I thought they were. 

I excused myself carefully and got one of the now very blonde instructors. 

She assured me that they were only fruit flies coming from the 

Thanksgiving decorations near the 

shampoo bowl. 

Whew!! 

That was such a relief. 

Such a relief. 

Love,

Grammy T.

Sunshine Chicken Barley Soup

Sunshine Chicken Barley Soup

I made a chicken soup the other day that I tweaked just a bit. Instead of making my usual Chicken and dumpling soup I used pearl barley and some dill butter carrots that I had made the night before. Well guess what, it was so delicious that I have been asked or I should say begged for the recipe, so here it is. 

In a large soup pot put:

5-6 Chicken Thighs (Boneless and skinless, I use frozen)

1-2 large onions, chopped

4 cloves of garlic (halved)

4 cups frozen Sunshine Carrots (they are yellow and orange)

2-3 cups Chopped Celery with stalks (dark leaves and all)

2/3 cup pearl barley

3 tablespoons butter 

3 Tbls. dried dill 

2 Tbls. lemon juice

1/4 cup dried parsley

1 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper

1/2 cup dried Chicken Bouillon 

Fill the pot with water to a little above the ingredients. 

Bring to a boil and simmer for 2-3 hours, adjust seasonings to taste,

Shut off and let cool a bit and then serve. 

It thickens by itself and is very yummy. 

It serves a lot so I take it to sick friends and also it freezes well and I save it for me when I am sick or don't feel like cooking. 

Love,

Grammy T.

Irish Friendship Blessing

I am going to leave you with an Irish Friendship Blessing today:

May there always be work for your hands to do. 
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine on your windowpane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Love,
Grammy T.

Some New Quilts

I just finished this quilt top. I can't wait to finish the whole thing. It will be for my 26th Grand baby.

 I hand quilted it with pink crochet thread and it turned out darling. 

This next quilt was for Nikki. 

I  do love to quilt I feel like it is like painting a picture

with all of the colors and textures 

it is so fun. 

I will post Sissy's and Becky's as soon as I take a picture of them.

Love,

Grammy T.

Updates on The Broken Window and The Boat.

Remember this window and the story about the BB gun? 
If not go to this blog to find out what happened.

This is the Update on that story. 


We have really big winds here and if you 
live near a canyon there are really, really
BIG winds.
Yep, you guessed it the wind blew so hard that it 
knocked the broken glass out of the window 
in the middle of the night and 
scared everyone to pieces!

I'm so glad that no one was hurt and that I wan't there. 


And remember the boat it has hatched into a 
1996 Cadillac DeVille 
like this one 
because of very kind people 
with big hearts.
And it runs.

Love,
Grammy T. 

Then why does he speak Mexican?

Some more of my "Christmas Animals".

 The principal got a phone call and in essence the caller wanted to know
"Why the school had just hired a Mexican" to be 
Vice Principal? 
Well since that boy is one of mine I can assure you that he was 
born in the USA and doesn't need 
a green card. 
The principal tried his best 
to explain. 
Her reply was 
"Then why does he speak Mexican?"


You can laugh, I am still laughing. :)

(He speaks Spanish and Portuguese) 


But it is best not to judge to quickly who has
a green card and who doesn't, that is 
for sure and for certain. 

Love,
Grammy T.

What about your bad temper? You've got a problem there.

December flew right by and I missed blogging it. 

These are a few of the beautiful white Christmas animals
that I wanted to blog about.

Gorgeous animals but all to convenient for their predators, aren't the little one's darling?

I received this via email and at first it didn't sound interesting but as I started to read I found that it is very interesting and true. I hope you like it too

This is in two parts:  

The prayer (in blue type) and GOD (in red type )-in response.
THE LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father Who Art In Heaven.

Yes?

Don't interrupt me. I'm praying.

But, you called Me.

Called you?

No, I didn't call you.. I'm praying.

Our Father who art in Heaven.

There -- you did it again!

Did what?

Called ME.

You said, "Our Father who art in Heaven"

Well, here I am… What's on your mind?

But I didn't mean anything by it. 

I was, you know, just saying my prayers for the day.

I always say the Lord's Prayer.

It makes me feel good, Kind of like fulfilling a duty.

Well, all right. Go on.

Okay, Hallowed be thy name ... 

Hold it right there.

What do you mean by that?

By what?

By "Hallowed be thy name"?

It means, it means .. . Good grief, 

I don't know what it means.

How in the world should I know?

It's just a part of the prayer.

By the way, what does it mean?

It means honored, holy, wonderful.

Hey, that makes sense.. 

I never thought about what

'hallowed' meant before.

Thanks. Thy Kingdom come,

Thy will be done,

On earth as it is in Heaven.

Do you really mean that?

Sure, why not?

What are you doing about it?

Doing? Why, nothing, I guess.

I just think it would be kind of neat if you got

Control, of everything down here like you have up there. 

We're kinda' in a mess down here you know..

Yes, I know;

But, have I got control of you?

Well, I go to church..

That isn't what I asked you.

What about your bad temper?

You've really got a problem there, you know.

And then there's the way you spend

Your money -- all on yourself.

And what about the kind of books you read ?

Now hold on just a minute!

Stop picking on me!

I'm just as good as some of the rest

Of those people at church!

Excuse ME..

I thought you were praying

For my will to be done..

If that is to happen,

It will have to start with the ones

Who are praying for it.

Like you -- for example .......

Oh, all right. I guess I do have

 some hang-ups.

Now that you mention it,

I could probably name some others.

So could I.

I haven't thought about it very

much until now,

But I really would like to cut out

some of those things.

I would like to, you know, be really free.

Good.

Now we're getting somewhere.

We'll work together -- You and ME.

I'm proud of You.

Look, Lord, if you don't mind, I need to finish up here.

This is taking a lot longer than

 it usually does.

Give us this day, our daily bread.

You need to cut out the bread..

You're overweight as it is.

Hey, wait a minute! What is this?

Here I was doing my religious duty,

And all of a sudden you break in

And remind me of all my hang-ups.

Praying is a dangerous thing.

You just might get what you ask for.

Remember, you called ME -- and here I am.

It's too late to stop now.

Keep praying. ( pause .. . )

Well, go on.

I'm scared to.

Scared? Of what?

I know what you'll say.

Try ME. 

Forgive us our sins,

As we forgive those who sin against us..

What about Ann?

See? I knew it!

I knew you would bring her up!

Why, Lord, she's told lies about me, spread stories.

She never paid back the money she owes me..

I've sworn to get even with her!

But -- your prayer --

What about your prayer?

I didn't -- mean it..

Well, at least you're honest.

But, it's quite a load carrying around all that

bitterness and resentment isn't it?

Yes, but I'll feel better as soon as I get even with her.

Boy, have I got some plans for her.

She'll wish she had never been born.

No, you won't feel any better.

You'll feel worse.

Revenge isn't sweet.

You know how unhappy you are -- 

Well, I can change that.

You can? How?

Forgive Ann.

Then, I'll forgive you;

And the hate and the sin,

will be Ann's problem -- not yours.

You will have settled the problem

as far as you are concerned.

Oh, you know, you're right.

You always are.

And more than I want revenge,

I want to be right with You . . (sigh).

All right, all right . .

I forgive her.

There now!

Wonderful!

How do you feel?

Hmmmm. Well, not bad.

Not bad at all!

In fact, I feel pretty great!

You know, I don't think I'll go

 to bed uptight tonight.

I haven't been getting much rest, you know.

Yeah, I know.

But, you're not through

with your prayer, are you?

Go on.

Oh, all right.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Good! Good! I'll do that.

Just don't put yourself in a place

where you can be tempted.

What do you mean by that?

You know what I mean.

Yeah. I know..

Okay.

Go ahead. Finish your prayer.

For Thine is the kingdom,

and the power,

and the glory forever..

Amen.

Do you know what would bring me glory?

What would really make me happy?

No, but I'd like to know.

I want to please you now...

I've really made a mess of things.

I want to truly behave like Christ

I can see now how great that would be.

So, tell me .. . .

How do I make you happy?

"YOU just did".

Love,
Grammy T.