Easy DIY Fire Starters

We love our fire pit and use it year-round. My husband has become a great fire starter but we found out that having a little help makes it less work to get the fire going. 

I’ve been making these fire starter rolls for a couple of years now and they’re super easy and cost little to nothing to make. 

Materials you need:

• Cardboard tubes
• Dryer Lint
• Cookie Tin
• Candles
• Wax paper
• Empty can or a wax pouring pot
• Essential oils, if you desire
• Pan with water
• Potholder

Instructions:

1. Create a double boiler by placing the empty can or pot in the pan with water. Make sure the can is clean and dry.
2. Place the candle into the can/pot.
   
   
   
3. Heat the water to melt the candle wax.
4. Drop a few drops of essential oils in the hot wax and stir. (Below are some essential oils you may use if you would like to keep the mosquitos away.)
   
   
   
5. Line the bottom of the tin with wax paper. Stand the cardboard tubes up on the end in the cookie tin. 
   
   
   
6. Stuff some lint into each tube. Leave a bit of room to tuck the wax paper in.
   
   
   
7. Carefully pour the melted candle wax into each tube.
   
   
   
8. Let the wax harden. Turn the tubes over and add wax.
9. Remove the tubes from the tin.
10. Wrap the tubes with wax paper and twist/fold the ends towards the lint.
    
    
    
11. Use one fire starter log to start a campfire.

There are several essential oils that can be used to repel mosquitoes and are effective insect deterrents suitable for fire pits, fireplaces, wood stoves, and campfires. 

• Citronella essential oil 
• Eucalyptus essential oil 
• Peppermint essential oil 
• Lavender essential oil
• Tea tree essential oil
• Cedarwood essential oil

Also if you are looking for quality essential oils, we suggest doTERRA. Rhonda is a doTERRA representative and would love to help you. Contact her here → Rhonda Byler.

Watch the short video on how to make fire starters: ↓🠟

Do you have a suggestion on the use of fire starters? Comment and share below!

Keep it sassy,

Kelly

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Happy Birthday to Cathy and our SSS Review of The Black Bear Bistro

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATHY
 to the oldest of the three of us!!

We sisters always get together for our birthdays by going out for lunch. This month happens to be Cathy's birthday and she picked the Black Bear Bistro in Warrenton, Virginia. Old Town Warrenton is a quaint little town with lots of charm.

Upon entering the Black Bear Bistro we noticed right away they had a terrace we could eat our lunch on this beautiful fall day. The waitress told us we could chose anywhere we would like to sit and of course, in SSS fashion we sat down, ordered our drinks and then decided to change tables. Our waitress was gracious and said, "by all means sit where you are most comfortable". At this point during the lunch hour, there weren't many people dining, so we had our pick of tables.
We girls decided, after looking at the menu and hearing the special of the day which was a personal pan brick oven pizza with side salad,  that we would pick from their brick oven pizzas. Cathy chose the ALOHA with brick sauce, shredded mozzarella, pineapple and bacon. Rhonda chose the PAISANO with roasted garlic cream sauce, spinach, shredded mozzarella and sautéed onions. I (Kelly) chose the VERDURA with rosemary oil, minced garlic, feta, artichokes, spinach, mushroom, red onion, and basil vinaigrette.

Would you like to hear what we thought about The Black Bear Bistro?? This is our first video so be kind ;)

The BBB also treated Cathy to a dessert of her choice and she chose the Chocolate Cheesecake with Chocolate sauce, Whipped Cream and cherries. Lots of cherries because who can share one cherry??? Not us ;)

If you live in the area, we recommend trying them out if you haven't already. Here's their website
http://www.blackbearbistro.com/

Take a look at the photos we took during our visit to the Black Bear Bistro.

Old Town Warrenton has a Lamp Post contest going on this month. This is one of the lamp posts and I believe Rhonda and Cathy were having too much fun and scared the stuffing out of this straw man!!

Take a stroll downtown Warrenton sometime. It's absolutely beautiful this time of year.
http://www.virginia.org/Cities/Warrenton/

All in all, it was a good day with great food, awesome company and hopefully many more birthdays to celebrate with my sisters.

Until next time friends!!
~Kelly Jo

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