Can I tell you a secret? I love making bath and body products.

Most of the time they’re insanely easy to make. We’re talking easy enough to make with your four year old and not pull out clumps of your hair easy.

Better yet, the pay off can last for weeks! The ladies in this house are suckers for things that smell amazing and make you feel all pampered. We like to make big jars full of scrubs that the girls happily glop all over themselves in the bath tub. And I’m not going to lie to you, I happily glop them all over myself too.

Since they’re so simple and relatively inexpensive to make, homemade bath and body products are perfect for making in large batches and gifting to friends and family for the holidays. I put together a list of 15 DIY skincare products that would make awesome gifts.

I’m a big fat Halloween dud. Some people get way into the whole creeptacular decorating thing (I’m specifically looking at my sister, who started decorating for Halloween in August. August!), but I’m usually the last minute scrambler. And the scrambles usually come because the girls start looking forlorn and sighing and saying “We didn’t decorate for Halloween yet!”

This, my friends, is when the mom guilt clicks up to high and the DIY brain shifts to overdrive. Or something. Basically, I freeze momentarily and say: how do I get all of the Halloween decorations for very little money and, like, immediately?

Enter this roundup of DIYs that should take less than ten minutes each… which I totally didn’t put together for my own benefit (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

Pick and choose your favorites (or, you know, the ones with supplies that are easiest for you to access) and take a half hour here and a half hour there to bang them out. By the end of the week, the kids will completely forget that you’re the worst because you’ll suddenly be the coolest.

I am the Queen of Good Intentions. I always (always) have elaborate gift giving plans months in advance of any particular event. We’re talking handmade components and the kind of hands-on time I’m delusional to think I actually will be able to carve out.

And then I inevitably look at the calendar and say “Crap! That’s this week already?!” Because… life.

Sometimes I scale back my elaborate plans and come up with a semi-homemade version of what I had aspired to. Other times I scrap the idea entirely and head straight to Amazon because ain’t nobody got time for that.

So with Father’s Day less than a week away, I thought I’d present you with some options from both sides: fun, quirky gifts you can buy and a few you can DIY.

You know what I love almost as much as a handmade gift? A gift that does double duty. Combine handmade with something that can be used in multiple ways and this girl’s universe is totally blown—which is kind of why I thought I’d show you how to make a wrap bracelet that doubles as a necklace.

If you’re anything like me, an accessory that can be used in multiple ways will make you feel a little slick and like a total bad ass. Sprinkle that feeling around a little bit and use this tutorial to make a gift for your momma.

For a little bow added on top, Olivia Lin of Atiliay was sweet enough to design a few jewelry tags you can use to package your pretty up all professional like.

Since Friday is Galentine’s Day and I believe that any excuse to celebrate female friendship is a fabulous one, I decided it was time to climb back into my mountainous mess of DIY supplies and make something amazing (and 90s inspired!) for my BFFs (girls, please feign surprise when I hand these to you later 😉 ). Since I have a seemingly endless hoard of jewelry supplies, it only made sense to go straight for the friendship bracelet.

I’m personally of the “any bracelet given in the spirit of friendship is a friendship bracelet” school of thought, so I was not about to tie myself down to braided summer camp wrist candy. Instead, I decided to step it up a notch and make really simple beaded bracelets.