Archive for March 11th, 2008

We went to visit my parents-in-law for the weekend. I meant to post before I left, but things were pretty hectic.

Bob took Friday off, so we could have a long weekend.

It was great.

My father-in-law brought me to a local apiary to get some raw honey. The place is called Warm Colors Apiary.

I already have a jar of their Deerfield Wildflower honey, which I got for Christmas. This time, I got some of their Raspberry Blossom honey. It is so good!

I also bought a 1 oz. brick of beeswax to make my own lip balm.

I found many recipes for beeswax lip balm on the internet, but I wanted to use things I had on hand. And I wanted one that contained honey.

I ended up using a variation of this lip balm recipe from Martha Stewart.

I used equal parts olive oil and bees wax, not the ratio in the recipe. Also, I omitted the essential oil because I liked the delicious honey flavor!

I did add a few drops of orange oil before pouring the final container of balm. That was yummy, too!

I had these empty lip balm containers from some Strawberry Shortcake lip gloss that my mom gave me at Christmas. I didn’t like it because it was too chemically, so I washed the gloss out and used the containers for my own lip balm.

I made this one for my sister, who visited us yesterday.