Martha Stewart, eat your heart out: DIY Success Stories

If you're not into DIY at all, we're fortunate to live in a world where there are a plethora of natural products available to buy, ready made.  But if you want to try your hand at some homemade goodness, it doesn't have to be hard or end up in the Hall of Shame: Pinterest Fails Edition.  These are simple, tried, and true.  There's a certain pride that comes with using a product that works great, and that you made with your own little hands.  ...and one that didn't take all day.  Ms. Stewart is great, but girlfriend has got a staff of hundreds and apparently endless time on her hands.  If you're looking for instructions on how to make your own wildcrafted yak's milk soap that cures in a mahogany bowl you carved yourself under the light of a crescent moon - you're on the wrong damn page.  Ain't nobody got time for THAT.