Butterflies in a jar

I made this as a birthday gift for my friend. She likes butterflies and she really needed some decoration for her room, so I made her this.

The butterflies are stamped baper, cut out and colored on both sides with Letraset ProMarkers.
The tree is simply wires curled around a stone.
I bought a candleholder in a second hand store, and a regular white plate, and glued them together with epoxy glue. All the butterflies and the rocks and even the cheese dish-cover is glued together with epoxy to make it solid and durable. 

Homemade skin products

For Christmas I made homemade Vanilla Lavender Sugar Scrub and a few batches of Cocoa Body Butter.
They are very easy to make, and requires only a few ingredients.
Sadly some of these ingredients are expensive here in Norway, but I bet they are cheeper in other parts of the world.

The body butter was made from this recipe,
the body scrub I made myself.

Vanilla Lavender Sugar Scrub

What you need:
Sugar
Carrier oil (I used walnut oil)
Lavender essential oil
Vanilla stick
Food coloring (optional)

Pour sugar into a bowl, depending on how much scrub you want to make.
Add your carrier oil bit by bit, so it's not too much, and mix it. You want it to be like a thick liquid, but not too thick.
Add about 4 drops of Lavender oil in. Too much might irritate the skin, so just have a few drops
Chop a vanilla stick. How much you will need depends on how much you're making. if you take too much, it might look grumsy and dirty, so be moderate
(because of this, I decided not to use lavender petals. I tried this at first, but it looked indelicate, so I made a new batch without it in)
Add a few drops of food coloring of your choice if you want to make it an other color.
Keep in an airtight container, and stir before use.