Last minute Making Christmas Gifts

Easy recipes with natural ingredients

Last minute Making Christmas Gifts

Natural Home Made Gifts


We last-minute gift-givers don't really deserve pity.
Once in a while it's sort of fun to play the game, to see what you can make with only your household goods, the help of your eight-year-old, and the 7-Eleven closing in nine minutes.
We last-minute (I prefer "impromptu") thinkers come up with some beauties. Plus we're the ones who know you can make perfectly fabulous gift wrap out of street maps, tinfoil, the society page or Big Mac wrappers.
So most of my home-made Christmas presents have been very quick. From all the recipes, I thought that the body scrub seemed the most interesting (and the easiest!). With only four simple ingredients and about 30 seconds of work time, it doesn't get much easier than this:

Bye Bye Dead Skin Body Scrub

For a refreshing start or end to your day, try this invigorating scrub! Customise this recipe to suit your skin and your liking - this scrub leaves legs and elbows soft and supple. A simple but beautiful recipe, that again can be customised
Ingredients

• 1 cup raw brown sugar grounded
• 1 cup salt grounded
• 1 cup Olive oil **Adjust this quantity to suit
• 2 tablespoons castile liquid soap or liquid soap (optional)
• 20-40 drops lemon essential oil

Instructions:
This is recipe is really just a guide using yummy ingredients - you can customise by:

• Change the olive oil with macadamia oil, sunflower oil, grape seed oil etc.
  

• Increasing or decreasing the amount of macadamia Oil (or your liquid soap) will make a firmer or sloppier scrub
  
• For a finer blend, use a coffee grinder to make sugar and/or salt granules smaller
  
• For a different style of scrub, use pure white Caster Sugar for a clean look
  
• For a more crafty look, add some lemon myrtle, lavender flowers, rosemary leaves or rose petals very finely powdered to your preparation.
  
• Change the Essential Oil for lemon essential oil, orange oil with cinnamon powder, lavender or Vanilla food flavour oil based. For men Lemon grass essential or cedar wood.
  

To Make: In a bowl add and mix all dry ingredients thoroughly. Add essential oils to the olive oil and add them to the dry ingredients and mix until a thick paste. Store in a sterile jar. It can be kept for one year.
Apply to skin with hands and massage gently into the area. Leave on the skin for 10 minutes. Remove with face washer under the shower. Moisturise with a suitable lotion

Another two quick recipes for people who enjoys creating recipes that combine high nutrition with good flavour.


Salt Free Herbal Seasoning
It's easy because all of the Mediterranean herbs are high in healthful antioxidants. This tasty seasoning mix adds great flavour to food without adding salt. Toasted sesame seeds add beneficial calcium to this mix.
Ingredients and Supplies

• I cup sesame seeds - Small cast-iron frying pan
• 2 tablespoons garlic powder
• I tablespoon dried rosemary
• I tablespoon dried marjoram
• I tablespoon dried thyme
• I tablespoon dried lemon zest
• Blender or food processor
• Airtight storage container

Directions

1. Toast sesame seeds in a cast-iron pan over medium heat until brown, but not burned.
   
2. Cool toasted seeds slightly, then blend them with remaining ingredients.
   
3. Store the mixture in an airtight container.
   

Perfect Pizza Seasoning
Home-made pizza is a quick-and-easy meal when you use ready-made pizza crust from the store.
You can buy pre-made pizza sauce too, but for a more authentic flavour, try using plain tomato sauce and this mix of dried herbs and vegetables.
Ingredients and Supplies

• ½ cup dried oregano
• 2 tablespoons dried basil
• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• ½ teaspoons garlic powder
• !/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• Small bowl
• Glass jar with airtight lid

Directions

1. Mix ingredients in the bowl.
   
2. Pour the mixture into the jar, seal it, and store it in a cool, dry place.
   
3. Sprinkle the mix on top of pizza as de­sired before baking, or mix 1 tablespoon into 1 quart of sauce before spreading the sauce on the pizza dough.
   

Have you suddenly remembered an event that you need a hostess gift for, had extra company decide to show up at the last minute, or simply forgotten to purchase a present for someone on your gift list?
Last minute homemade gifts do not have to require a lot of time or money to create. If you suddenly find yourself in need of a last minute gift idea, don't panic, these 3 simple yet beautiful homemade Christmas crafts can be created in mere minutes.
Happy Holidays!


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Happy Holidays!
Marlene Daniels