At Home Clarifying Shampoo

This recipe makes a quick clarifying rinse.

• Ingredients: one egg, juice from ½ a lemon, 1 cup of regular shampoo, ¾ cup of water, 1 teaspoon of oil.
• Wisk together and then use immediately in place of your regular shampoo. Condition as you normally would.
• The lemon is what does most of the work here while the egg and oil protect and strengthen. Adjust the amount of lemon as you need. I don’t color my hair but use a lot of silicone products so I up the lemon to really get rid of any build up. It leaves your hair feeling really clean and soft!

Summer Cocktails

Summer is the perefect time for crisp refresing drinks. Here are a few of my favorites

Izze Splash

Super simple and soo light and bright. Take Izze juice drink and mix it with your favorite liquor over ice. I prefer the blackberry with vodka. If you've never had Izze before check it out! Its sparkling water and fruit juice in a bunch of great flavors. http://www.izze.com/

Hop Skip and Go Nakeds

These sound a little wacky but are amazing, great for an outdoor movie or bbq. My friend Andy introduced me and its definitely worth a try. The ingredients are pink lemonade, vodka and wheat style beer (or at least light in color and flavor). Take equal parts of beer and lemonade anf then add vodka to taste about one shot per 10oz of the beer lemonade mix. Mix and serve over ice. Adjust this one to your personal preference some lemonade for sweetness for instance, sample frequently as you make!

Cranberry Granita

I adapted this one awhile ago from a food network show. Its a great light dessert as well as a cocktail. This makes enough for about 8-10 servings. Take three cups cranberry juice in a sauce pan with 1/2 cup sugar. Heat slowly untill disolved. Cool and add just over a 1/3 cup of each vodka and fresh lime juice (about two large limes). Mix in a shallow dish or casserole pan. Freeze for two hours. Use a fork to flake the icy mixure into crystals, refreeze. Repeat every few hours untill fully frozen (about 5 hours total). Serve in small bowls with mint leaves or lime wedges for garnish.

Enjoy! xoxo Jilly

~~Yard Sailing Away~~

Fantastic yard sale finds from this weekend!

Rode the scooter all over town, as has become a weekend ritual. Ended up with a sunburn and some fantastic items...

Great french style prints... I'm always looking for items like these; I'm still looking for the 'Chat O Lait' print I failed to buy years ago, oh the regrets! These are great aswell; could not pass up at $1 a piece! Now I just need to decide how to reframe/mat them?

These great tilted glasses really fun, and fairly trippy. From Z Gallery they still had the stickers of them. Got a full set of four which will look delish filled with the Izze I just picked up poured over ice.

Picked up a few other items... Helly Hansen jacket at right, a sweet pair of italian loafers, lovely wooden dish in need of a little tlc. Missed out on some really cool shelving, just couldn't haggle the price down low enough. But overall a great sucess!

Top Yard Sale/Flea market Tips

1. Have a goal in mind: I think of a few key things ahead of time that I would like to find, this keeps me focused. I'm always looking for wall decor, cups and glasses, books and camping supplies for instance. These items also re-sell well if I happen to get over zealous.
2. Go Early: The good stuff can go fast
3. But Dont be afriad to leave it behind. If its not the right price leave it, you can always double back and sellers are more apt to bargain at when they are packing up

Happy Monday xoxo

Jilly