Easy Funfetti Cupcakes

Today's post I will be sharing these funfetti cupcakes. They're so easy, taste so yummy and they look really cute. Great for kids birthday or if you just want something fun. So lets get started. I used the same cake recipe that I used in my Blueberry Dinette cake with Streusel topping, you can use any vanilla/white cake recipe you want but if you want to use the one I used go to my post Here.

DIY Flower Pens and Painted Mason Jars

Back to school is coming soon, sad for some, exciting for others, so I thought I'd share with you a DIY. Here's a way to make your boring pens look more pretty and a painted mason jar to put them in, which looks really cute on your desk. So lets get started 

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For the pens you'll need, pens (obviously), scissors, floral tape and plastic flowers.

Blueberry Dinette Cake with Streusel topping

In our house, we always have to have a dessert with dinner. So for today's, we made a Blueberry Dinette Cake with Streusel topping. It's the first time my mom and I tried this, and I have to say, it is really good. Not only does it taste amazing, but it is the easiest recipe you will ever make, you can't go wrong with this cake. Here's what you'll need.........

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup of shortening or margarine (we used margarine) 
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract 

Brown Sugar Banana Bread

Today, I made some Banana Bread with my mom and thought I'd share with ya'll the recipe we used. It's simple, easy and tastes delicious. When we started we realized that we didn't have white sugar, after panicking for a couple minutes, we found a recipe that called for brown sugar. So, here's what you'll need.....

Makes 1 loaf

2 cups of Flour

1 tsp of Baking Soda

1/4 tsp of Salt

1/2 cup of Butter

3/4 cup of Brown Sugar

2 eggs, beaten 

2 1/3 cup of mashed, overripe Bananas

Optional: 1/2 cup of Walnuts

Tips for growing long hair

I've decided to grow my hair long about 7 months ago, and I wanted to do it the right way, the healthy way. So as usually I went to google for tips on growing long healthy hair and I thought I would share with you some of the things I found and have been using that I think have been working for me.

Tips #1

Stop washing your hair everyday! Yes washing your hair everyday seems like a good thing, it makes it feel clean and soft but do you notice that it gets greasy the next day. That's not because you have extra dirty hair and have to wash it everyday, it's because your drying out your scalp and it thinks that it needs to produce more oil to get rid of the dryness. If you start to train your hair and get it use to being washed less you will notice that the fast producing oil will slow down and you won't have to wash for 3 to 4 days.

   P.s. That doesn't mean you have to stop bathing/showering everyday just put your hair into a bun or into a shower cap when you don't want to wash your hair that day.

How to make your own sugar lip scurb

Don't you hate having chapped lips, flakes coming off and your lips start breaking and bleeding. No matter how much chap stick you use it seems to never go away, that's how it is for me. If you're in the same boat you know how I feel, it's painful. So I did some research to find a solution and just about everything I read mentioned lip scrubs. I've heard of them before but never thought anything of it so I never went to go looking for it. I live in a very small town that has next to nothing, we don't even have a Forever 21! So it was very disappointing when I couldn't find a lip scrub in any of our stores. Then I got the idea to try make one myself, I love DIY's they're fun to do, cheap (cause all the stuff you need is usually already in your kitchen), and you know what your putting in it, so no bad chemicals (I think). This is very easy to do and you don't need to many ingredients.

So what you'll need:

Sugar or brown sugar- you can use either or half in half (I used regular white sugar)

Honey or olive oil, coconut oil- your choice you can use any of them (I used honey)

Optional- Vanilla extract
You don't really need it it just makes the scrub taste and smell better (In this recipe I didn't put it in but feel free to do so if you want)

And a container to put it in- I stole a to-go pill container from my mom (Shhhh don't tell her)

And that's it!

For the love of Flowers

Today's post will be some pictures I've taken of flowers from my garden or random ones I've seen while I was walking around. I've recently found that I have a love for gardening, it's just a relaxing way to get out of my head as I am the type of person that stresses about nothing and worries about everything, and gardening just gives me a nice sense of calm. It's also a fun way to spend time with my dog and gives both of us some light exercise which is a good bonus.

These where some chairs that we got, they were every rusty but we spray painted them and now I just love them.