DIY Chocolate Body Paint & Edible Body Powder

It's Valentine's Day!!! Need a last minute gift idea for your husband? Here's two! You can thank me later...or he can. :)

Chocolate Body Paint

The Fixin's:
1/3 c sugar
1 pinch kosher salt
3 t water
2 t butter
1/4 c cocoa powder
1/2 t vanilla
1/2 t of flavoring - I used peppermint. Other suggestions I like are Baileys Irish Cream or Pinncale Whipped Vodka (both alcoholic).

What To Do:
Step 1: In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, salt and water over medium heat. Without stirring, bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Step 2: Once the sugar has dissolved, remove it from the heat and add the butter, stirring with a whisk until it is melted and combined with the rest. Then add the cocoa and flavorings and whisk some more.
Step 3: When mixed together and nice and smooth pour your chocolate into a glass jar or other microwave safe container.
Step 4: When ready to use, heat at 15 second intervals, stirring in between. Be careful not to burn each other! That's not the kind of Red Hot Valentine you'll want! ;)
Step 5: Paint away!



DIY Edible Vanilla Body Powder -Ever wonder where the term 'sweet cheeks' came from?

The Fixin's:
8 oz. of cornstarch
2 oz. of powdered sugar
2 oz. of vanilla powder

What To Do:
Step 1: Whisk all the ingredients together well.
Step 2: Store in an air tight container.
Step 3: Apply with a make-up brush to all your favorite kissable spots.

Valentine Oreo's

Turn those plain ol' Oreo's into Ore-OH's!!!!

The Fixin's:

• Bag of White Chocolate Chips

• T of vegetable oil

• Package of plain ol' boring Oreo's

• fun sprinkles, not boring one's like the Oreo's
  

• Double boiler

What To Do:
Step 1: Melt the chocolate chips and the tablespoon of vegetable oil using your double boiler.


Step 2: Dip half the cookie in the melted chocolate.
Step 3: Sprinkle with some festive toppings and let chill for 15 minutes in the fridge.

Felt Heart Valentine's

My Mama showed me how to make these in 3rd grade and you better believe it was my favorite Valentine's Day that year! ;)

The Fixin's:

• Felt - I piece makes 2 complete hearts, but you'll need a couple sheets if you'd like different colors.
  

• scissors

• pencil

• an old post card or card stock

• a cup

What To Do:
Step 1: Begin by taking your post card, cutting it in half and tracing around a cup to create round corners on one end. Trim off those corners. On the opposite end, draw two vertical lines, equally distanced apart, stretching to about where the arc of the opposing end begins. Cut along those lines as well. Nice, work. Now you have a stencil.


Step 2: Take your felt square and fold it Hotdog style. Align your stencil with the side and bottom corner and trace around it. Do this along the entire length of your felt and repeat with each colored square you'd like to use.


Step 3: Following the stencil lines, cut out your felt pieces, including the two lines in the middle.


Step 4: Select two felt pieces and hold one in each hand so their fingers are facing each other.
Step 5: Take the first finger in your right hand and open it up, placing the first finger from your left hand inside.


Step 6: Now, close the first finger from your right hand and place it inside the second finger from the left.


Step 7: Just like in step 5, open the first finger again and place it around the third finger in your left hand. You should see an every other pattern by now.


Step 8: Okay, moving on to finger number two on the right hand. All you do is the opposite as you did with finger one. So, in your right hand, with the second finger closed, weaving it inside of finger one from your left hand.


Step 9: Next, open it and weave it around finger two in your left hand.


Step 10: Close it, weaving, it inside finger three from your left hand.


Step 11: Repeat steps 5 - 7 and there you have it!


Step 12: Fill with a Valentine's treat and make someones day!