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Heavenly Lavender Spearmint Bath Bombs

  • Feb 14, 2020


Purple bath bombs next to a tub, 50, fabulous & finally free

Loving Yourself

Add this, "do-it-yourself bath bomb", to your bath for a relaxing spa-like treat; YOU deserve it!

Your skin will thank you and feel amazing!

Heavenly Lavender Spearmint Bath Bombs

This is by far the easiest DIY bath bomb recipe I have formulated yet – that is, after many failed attempts.

Directions:

  • Use 2 stainless steel bowls

  • Measuring spoons and cups

  • 1-cup baking soda

  • ½ cup cornstarch

  • ½ cup Epsom salts

  • 4 tablespoons cream of tartar

  • 2 ½ tablespoons coconut oil (avocado oil or walnut oil can be substituted)

  • 2 teaspoons essential oil (lavender and spearmint are my faves)

  • 3-6 drops of purple food coloring

  • ¾ tablespoon water

  • Plastic mold (I used a circle mold, that was actually a plastic ornament that separates, but choose your own shape as you like!)

In a large bowl combine all dry ingredients (Baking soda, cornstarch, Epsom salts and cream of tartar) and whisk together.

In a smaller, separate bowl, mix all wet ingredients, (oil, essential oils, food coloring and water)

Slowly pour small amounts of liquid mixture into dry ingredients working together slowly, using your hands (wear gloves!) The texture should be dry and crumbly to start out.


Bath bomb mixture is stainless bowl, 50 fabulous & finally free

Continue to mix ingredients together by hand until desired color and scent have been achieved.

Gently but firmly press into desired mold.

Let dry overnight or a minimum of 12 hours.

Gently remove bath bombs from mold.

Store in a mason jar or other sealed container for future use or give as gifts.

You Mousse Try This Easy Chocolate Dessert

  • Feb 12, 2020


Chocolate bowl filled with chocolate mousse, Fifty, fabulous & finally free

Chocolate Mousse

Ingredients:

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1 cup chocolate syrup (for extra richness I like to use Hershey’s Special Dark)

1 TBSP Pure Vanilla Extract

Directions:

Using a home whipped cream maker, combine ingredients until thoroughly mixed then add CO2 cartridges (you may want to use 2 but let the mixture chill in between adding them)

Alternative- If you are using an electric mixer, blend whipping cream and vanilla extract then slowly drizzle chocolate syrup in as whipped cream begins to form stiff peaks.

Chill and serve, garnish with fresh berries.

Chocolate Bowls

Directions:

Melt 8 oz. milk chocolate chips and 8 oz. white chocolate chips

Pour carefully into bowl molds, (taking care not to over fill), chill 30 minutes and then gently remove – these are an easy, beautiful addition to any meal.

*Molds for these are available at most discount retailers or any hobby / craft store.

You can fill the bowls with our chocolate mousse (as pictured) or use fresh berries and whipped cream.

Am I Engaged to You or Your Lawyer?

  • Feb 6, 2020


Women's hand with wedding Band. 50, Fabulous & Finally Free.com

About a month after we were engaged he invited me downtown for dinner adding that he needed to make a quick stop on the way. I didn’t think much of it; he was a businessman and knew about a million people. We stopped at his attorney’s office and this lawyer began to explain to me how it was necessary for me to sign a pre-nuptial agreement or we wouldn’t be able to get married. I was aghast – my fiancée hadn’t said a thing to me about this, we’d barely been engaged for a month and now I was in his lawyer’s office being told to sign this document or it was off? I was so confused and hurt; all I could do was cry. As I sat there, bewildered, it came out that because my fiancée had been married twice before, his business partner had given him no choice but to get the agreement signed (so he said). I couldn’t believe he was asking me to do this. So much for my fairytale! I didn’t commit but just left with my fiancée, still crying. About a month later, he brought up the agreement again – this time shortly before we were about to depart for a 3-week trip around the world, which ended just a few weeks before our wedding. He told me to either sign or he would cancel the wedding. I still refused – for me all of this legal maneuvering seemed ridiculous. We were getting married because we loved each other and wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, not as some kind of business venture. In the week leading up to the wedding he pressured me mercilessly to sign the agreement, which I was seeing for the first time and 3 days before the wedding, I finally broke down. This was the man I loved and good relationships involve compromise, right?

That agreement would haunt me for the next twenty years. After I had learned that the only compromising to be done was always on my side, and, the sweet, attentive man I had dated was merely a mask that the monster I had once glimpsed could hide behind.

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