Frugal Friday

Dry Ingredient Mason Jars,
Decorative Styrofoam Balls &

DIY Flower Vase Lamps

Super fun and creative gift ideas

I took advantage of this holiday : )

Dry Ingredient Mason Jars

 Peanut Butter Cocoa Cookies

FIRST

I found cute little mason jars with already

decorated tops at SAVERS 2 for $1. I bought

6 of them :)

THEN, I searched my cabinets to figure

out what ingredients I had 

FINALLY, I assembled to jars and created tags :)

INGREDIENTS

3/4C Flour

1/3C Packed Brown Sugar

1/2C CoCoa Powder

1/3C PB2 (powdered Peanut Butter)

1/2tsp Baking Soda

Chocolate Chips

THEY ADD:

1 egg

1/2C Butter

1tsp vanilla

TAGS:

On One Side:

"Just Add 1 egg, 1/2c butter, and 1tsp vanilla"

Other side:

Directions

- Preheat Oven to 375

- Blend Butter, Egg, and Vanilla

- Add jar contents, Mix well

- Drop dough balls on ungreased

baking sheet

- Bake 8-10 minutes

Decorative Styrofoam Balls

YOU NEED:

-Styrofoam ball (MICHAELS CRAFT STORE)

-Glue Gun

-Hemp String

- Burlap

- Newspaper 

and, LOTS OF TIME & PATIENCE 

NEWSPAPER DIRECTIONS:

-Tear little pieces of tea-stained

news paper

-Hot glue each individual

ripped piece onto styrofoam ball

- after THREE NIGHTS of tearing

and gluing, I finally finished. It was 

totally worth the time : )

HEMP STRING:

Fairly simple, start your hemp string on one

side finding your way around the styrofoam ball

lining each row closely to the previous

BURLAP:

- Cut strips of burlap 

- glue to the ball facing the same direction

- To cover the top of the ball where there is extra strip,

simply use burlap strips to make "flower petal" shapes and

hot glue to the top.

- Finish with a rolled piece of burlap as the middle of the burlap flower

(sorry for the lack of pictures!! )

Flower Vase Lamp

YOU NEED:

Lamp Shade (Antique shop $1 each)

Vase/base (Goodwill $2 each)

Lamp Kit (Home Depot $12 each)

Burlap

Ribbon (not necessary)

Spray Paint

Glass Drill Bit

Light Bulb

LAMP SHADE:

-I purchased these lamp shades from

an antique shop in Morris, IL

-I used stencils and black spray paint

on burlap to cover the lamp shade 

No Time To Workout

False. 

Have No Fear.. the INTERNET is here! yaayyy *audience claps*

I HATEEEE when people say they don’t have time to work out.

…..Yes you do. Use your head and be smart about it.

YouTube, Google, Instagram.. God’s gifts to earth. Look up cardio videos on YouTube, look up workouts on Google, get inspiring workouts from other fit freaks like us on Instagram. THERE’S A TON, trust me.

Today I had an hour to work out. Why waste time by driving to the gym? By the time I get there, I’d have 30 minutes to workout..feeling rushed and unsatisfied are the absolute worst workouts to have. 

On days like these, my living room IS my gym… 

 

Yes that is my laptop I’m struggling to see. But whatever gets the job done! 

Here are the four workouts I completed:

 

 

 

Those workouts were NO JOKE! 

 I got just as good a workout as I would have, had I gone to the gym. 

 

So class…what did we learn today???

  NO MORE EXCUSES! Get up and Do Something.