How to make a natural room freshener There are various natural ways to add fragrance to your home Choices for natural home fragrance may include a bouquet of fresh flowers or herbs, or a bowl of handmade dried flower potpourri refreshed with real essential oils. I thought I’d try experimenting with an alternative to the…
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Making a floral bath sachet with dried flowers
Soak in a bath of dried flower petals Brighten up your bathtime with the fragrance of flowers from your garden in this floral bath soak! Fill a pouch with bath goodies The bag you use for this make is quite important – it needs to be a quite open weave to allow the water to…
Natural Christmas wreaths
You can’t beat natural Christmas wreaths There are some great handmade Christmas wreaths out there, with felt, buttons, ribbon and all sorts of fancies, but I prefer something a bit more natural, with fruit, foliage and spices. Here are some Christmas wreath ideas I have accumulated over the years from ones I have purchased. Christmas…
Five uses for dried Chamomile flowers
Chamomile is a pretty daisy-like flower Chamomile is much-used in aromatherapy with properties similar to lavender. The flower is soothing to mind and body with an apple-like fragrance. Chamomile flowers growing in my garden We had a minor disaster a few months ago: flooding in our DaisyShop workshop. Of course we were insured, so it…
Dried flowers diaries November 2012
An up and down month but lots of dried flower makes It’s been a really wet end to the month in Supposedly Sunny Sussex, to the extent that we suffered flooding in the workshop this week. Luckily we only suffered the loss of a few hundred pounds worth of stock and our landlord was very…