It's December 15th and I am officially finished with our home made Christmas gifts. We've been working on them for a while now. The first 13 gifts were delivered this past week and we've got 10 more going out on Tuesday and then we are done. I'm really glad to have figured this out this year. I really wanted the kids' teachers to have special, thoughtful (and environmentally friendly!) gifts from us since they bless our lives so much. Overall this was a fun and and fairly inexpensive way to make a ton of handcrafted gifts. The kids were able to help and although it took a little bit of effort to figure out the recipes and gather the ingredients, now I feel like I could confidently whip up a batch of any of these things in no time. We made lip balms (so easy!), bath salts (even easier!) and body butter (not too demanding, and oh so worth it : ) Here are the pics. I wish I had more pictures of the process of the lip balms and the body butter but I was so busy trying to get everything right that I only got shots of the final products. Enjoy! I'm putting up my feet tonight and reading a good book now that the gift making has come to an end... for now : )
All of our ingredients and supplies... 
Bath Salt Time!
We mixed the bath salts in a big mixing bowl 
Salts go into the mason jars...
Lip Balms! I wish I had more pics of the process but here you go...basically you just melt a bunch of stuff together and then pour it into the jars and let it cool. So Easy!
The little jar is the body butter ( I'll have to do another post on that since I didn't take enough pics) and the little silver tube is a peppermint spritzer made with a pinch of epsom salt, water and peppermint drops.
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