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July 9, 2019July 9, 2019

A Growing Garden Update

So here’s a garden update.

We’ve continued to have more rain than usual and in some cases I think it caused a little bit of problems. But with the warmer weather we’ve been having it’s not been too bad and things are beginning to get big.

A Garden Overview.

Let’s look at all the goodies and how well they’re growing. You’ll also note that the weeds and wheat are growing pretty well too.

An overview of the garden. — This picture was taken on 6/30. It’s amazing how fast this garden is growing.

You can go back and look at the garden in my first garden post here. This will give you an idea of how much everything has grown.

Here are the various tomatoes I’ve got planted in the garden.

Pink Brandywine

The Pink Brandywines I have planted are now tied to the trellis and they are actually growing in and around the trellis. I’ve even got some fruit growing, although in this picture you really can see them.

Mortgage Lifters

The Mortgage Lifters seem to be growing the best. I’ve been trying to keep it pruned, but it grows almost faster than I can keep up.

I’m really hoping to get a good sized mess of tomatoes canned this year. We are completely out of home canned tomatoes from our last crop a few years ago. I miss having them around the house.

A mortgage lifter tomato plant with tomatoes growing in my garden. — Look at all those tomatoes.

Mortgage lifter plant with tomatoes growing in my garden — Here’s another batch off the same plant.

Cherry Tomatoes

Large cherry tomato plant growing in my garden — My Large Cherry Tomato plant

There’s about 3 bunches of these cherry tomatoes on the plant. I don’t think you can see them all, but trust me they are there. Can’t wait for these either.

We’ll just put these in a bowl on the counter and eat them like snacks. I’m really hoping to get enough to dry them too.

The Surprise Compost Tomato

A roma type tomato plant growing in my compost pile — They look like a roma type tomato to me.

Now here’s the big surprise. Remember the tomato plant I found in the compost pile with the squash plant. Well, I think I’ve determined what kind of tomato it is and I’m real excited about it. This thing is COVERED in blooms and there are a LOT of small fruit on the plant. I’m so excited.

It looks like we are going to a huge crop of these. Since the roma type are usually a lot more meaty than your regular slicing tomato, I’m really hoping to have enough to make some good tomato sauces.

What you see here is just a small amount of what is really there. YAY!!!

It’s the small things that make me happy.

The Peppers

Next up we have some peppers. There’s really not a lot to show here so I’ve only included the one picture .

A Bell pepper plant growing in my garden — This is the bell pepper that almost wasn’t. Something ate this plant down to the stalk. Now it’s the best looking pepper I have.

We’ve gotten 2 banana peppers so far, but it looks like there’s only going to be, maybe, one more. The 2 we got were really good. We tasted the first one raw and the 2nd one we grilled with some pork chops we had for supper. It was was so good.

I’m not sure what happened here with the peppers, but that’s something we’ll have to work on to figure out. We really would like to have a lot more of the banana peppers.

We still have about 3 bell pepper plants growing, 1 with an actual pepper and the other 2 have a few blooms. I’m anxious to see what they do.

The baby radishes aren’t babies anymore, and you can see the carrots now.

My radishes aren’t babies anymore. I actually pulled one and grilled it with our pork chops along with the 1 remaining banana pepper. These radishes are going to be huge.

A row each of radishes and carrots growing in my garden. — Radishes and carrots.

One thing you’ll note when you look at this picture is the radishes in the back are way bigger than the ones nearer to the front of the picture. The only thing we can figure out is the amount of water that they got during that real wet period (called May). We think the ones at the back drained faster than the smaller ones up front. It’s just a guess, but there’s really no other differences.

We’re happy to say you can actually see the carrots now. They need to be thinned, and we’ll get to that, but we’ll give them just a bit more time.

My husband LOVES his carrots and doesn’t want to pull too many. I’ll let him do those honors.

Okra

Remember the tiny okra plants from before. Well they aren’t so tiny anymore.

These are about a foot tall now. I just can’t wait to see the blooms. Okra has such pretty flowers when they bloom.

The burgundy ones have gotten redder so they’re really pretty now too.

The Chinese yard long beans are growing!!

The tiny little Chinese Yard Long Beans have grown. They’re now beginning to grow up the trellis. A few of them have a tentacle reaching up about 4 feet.

Chinese Yard Long Beans growing in my garden — Here are the beans climbing up the trellis.

I only had to tie one. It just kept reaching the opposite direction from the trellis. The rest found the trellis all by themselves.

The compost squash.

And remember that squash that was growing in the compost pile? Holy Smokes, I had to give up my compost pile for the year. It’s taken over. I’m also noticing there’s more than one kind of squash in that mass of plants.

So far I’ve found 3 fruit and none of them look alike.

This is the one we transplanted from the compost pile into the garden.

Looks like a pumpkin pie pumpkin growing in my garden. — Looks like small pie type pumpkin to me.

This fruit I found near the front side of the compost pile.

A young type of squash growing in the compost pile. — This one is about 4-5 inches in size right now.

And this one is growing on the outside of the back side of the compost pile.

A type of squash growing outside the compost pile. — This one is just a touch smaller than a soccer ball.

I’m having a terrible time with squash bugs too. I’d never seen those nasty little things before this year. They can decimate a plant pretty quick from what I’m seeing too.

Even with the squash bugs, this plant is taking over.

Large squash plant growing out of the compost pile. — The squash plant coming out the back side of the compost pile.

Large squash plant — The front of the compost pile. This thing is reaching out in all directions.

I’ve been mixing Neem oil and spraying the plant. I’m hoping to just hold them off as long as possible. I can’t get into the plant in the compost pile well enough to spray it completely so I think that’s going to be a problem in getting rid of them.

Lots of Weeds And Wheat In the Garden

The one thing you will note is that the wheat and weeds are growing rather well. We mulched with straw, so the wheat is growing like crazy. Since wheat is an annual, we’re not too worried about that as long as we don’t let it head.

The weeds are another story. We’ve been working at weeding and I’m going to have to get my Cobra Head in there and get some work done. It’s just too much for hand pulling.

We just got back from 3 days out of town and in those 3 days, everything exploded. We have a lot to do now.

What’s Next

I still want to plant some more for late summer and some other stuff for fall, so we still have a lot to do to get the other side of this garden ready. We’ll be using a weed barrier on the new parts of the garden, that I didn’t have when we started this side of the garden.

I’m interested to see how much easier it is to take care of with the weed barrier down.

Lessons Learned

One thing we learned with this garden is to not give up on a plant that doesn’t look good. A few of the plants I thought were toast, have come back to look really great and begin to produce.

I’m sure there will be more lessons. Like I said, this is an experiment, so I’m excited to learn a ton of lessons for next year.

Let me know what you planted in your garden and how it’s going. Leave a comment or a picture below. If you have any good advise, I’m all ears too.

Until Next Time – Health, Wealth & Blessings ~ Tracey

July 2, 2019July 1, 2019

Homemade Herbal Tea

Do you buy herbal tea? Did you know you can easily make your own homemade herbal tea? Not all herbal teas must be made with dried herbs too. Have you tried making an herbal tea with fresh herbs?

I drink a lot of homemade herbal tea. I used to drink a lot of herbal tea because I was always cold and because I just like hot tea, but recently I’ve learned that I enjoy cold herbal tea too. That’s a plus in the summer. I’m embarrassed to say, it had never occurred to me to drink it cold.

Where to Get Herbs for Your Homemade Herbal Tea

You can get so many kinds of dried herbs these days. There’s no limit to the all the different types of teas you can make. And you can find recipes all over the web for any mix of herbal tea you could ever want. Here’s a look at some of the places to find herbs for your own herbal tea blends.

Grow your own herbs

Growing your own herbs isn’t just for cooking. You can grow almost anything you like for herbal tea too.

Growing your own herbs and drying them or using them fresh is an awesome way to enjoy herbal tea. You’ll always know where the herbs come from and never have to worry what might have been sprayed on them.

Going to the store

Most organic markets sell all kinds of fresh and dried herbs. Where I live there are several organic stores with a litany of dried herbs and flowers that can be used in teas. Fresh herbs can be found almost everywhere.

Stopping at your farmers markets is another great way to find herbs. Some of these won’t be dried, but you can easily dry them yourself. You can buy them in bulk from a farmer and dry them for making tea during the off months.

Shopping Online

There are several online sites that sell organic herbs. Actually, one of the online sites I have bought from I found through one of the organic markets I shop at locally.

Here are a few I’ve used before. I’m sure there are more out there, so you can do your own research and maybe you’ll find a few more I haven’t found yet.

Shop your own spice rack

You probably have a mess of herb that make great teas in your own spice rack. Did you know that rosemary, basil, sage as well as other cooking herbs make great teas?

My own apothecary. This has taken me several years to build up. That way I didn’t spend a lot of money all at once.

First, check the date on your herbs. As long as they’ve been kept in your cabinet closed up they won’t likely be bad, but the older the herbs, the more flavor they will loose and any benefits they may provide will diminish with time.

If you research the herbs you have in your kitchen you’ll discovery they have so many more uses than just adding great flavor to your food. The’re just as amazing mixed in teas.

I have a mix of dried herbs I use to help with arthritis pain in my fingers. I did my research on specific herbs I like and then created a mix that tasted good to me. Some of those herbs come out of my kitchen cabinet. If I drink it daily, I’ve discovered I don’t have any arthritis issues in my hands anymore. While, I can’t say it would work the same for you, I could tell you that it’s a good tasting tea that I’d drink even if it didn’t ease the pain in my hands.

Don’t Be Afraid To Try

Start with the herbs you have in your kitchen cabinet. You might be surprised. Do your own research regarding the benefits of each herb and decide which you would like to try first.

Then taste them. Decide on which flavors you like the best. You probably have some idea already from cooking with them.

One of my tea blends using lavender flowers.

Maybe mix a few together. You’ll only need a teaspoon or so for a cup of tea, so it’s not like you’ll lose a lot if you don’t like it. Add a little honey if you prefer some sweetness.

Then you can go to those organic stores nearby and buy a few more. Maybe try something new. You can buy them online too. Some of the online stores I use have huge selections.

Write it down

The one thing I am forever doing is mixing and not writing down my mix ratios. A few of them that I really liked I have yet to reproduce because I didn’t write down my herbal mix and ratio.

I like to mix bigger batches in quart jars and then label them. My kitchen is full of Mason jars filled with herbs and tea mixes. You can buy the labels that wash off so your jars are easy to reuse. Or you might find that perfect mix and just keep filling your jar over and over.

Before you know it, you’ll be a mixing master, at least for those homemade herbal teas you like the most. And isn’t that what’s most important, making the tea you most enjoy for you and your family?

I hope you enjoy mixing tea blends specifically to your taste. Let me know what you made and if you made it for a specific purpose or just because you liked it. It’d be great if you’d share your recipe too, but you can keep it a secret. A lot of us are always looking for a good tea mix. I’ll put some out shortly.

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Until next time –

Health, Wealth & Blessings ~ Tracey

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019

Homemade Sweet Pickles

A quart and a pint of homemade microwave sweet pickles

I came across this new recipe for how to make homemade sweet pickles just in the last few weeks. These things are AMAZING, if you like sweet pickles anyway.

Quart of homemade sweet pickles — A quart of my homemade sweet pickles.

We had a Memorial Day party and my cousin brought these to share.

Sweet pickles from the store can’t hold a candle to these homemade sweet pickles. This is a cucumber and onion mix with a simple mix of spices and sugar poured over them and then heated. The best part about this recipe is that it’s a 10 minute recipe. You just can beat it.

They have such and awesome flavor and they make such crisp sweet pickles, you’d never believe it only took 10 minutes to make.

You can make these pickles a sweet and spicy mix too if you like by just adding some jalapeno peppers. I’m not real keen on spicy, but I know several people who would love that.

It’s deceptively easy and amazingly fast. You’ll be pleasantly surprised, I promise.

Measuring cup with the spices needed for these homemade sweet pickles. — What you see here is all that’s needed for this easy crispy sweet pickle recipe.

Mary, my cousin, sent me a photo of the recipe she uses. From what I can read, a lady named Esther submitted this recipe in a contest to something called “Cooks Connection”. I couldn’t find anything local relating to Cooks Connection so I’m not real sure what that relates to. I couldn’t find a date on it either, so I’m not real sure how old it is or who to credit it back to.

So, in lieu thereof, I’ll credit my cousin Mary for this fabulous recipe.

I hope you all enjoy these as much as I did. I’ve made several batches since then and so far they have been a hit with everyone I’ve shared them with. I plan to make many more in the future.

Homemade Microwave Sweet Pickles

Ingredients

2 cucumbers, thinly sliced – not peeled
1 onion also thinly sliced. I’ve actually used 2 onions before just because they are so good in this recipe.
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Tumeric. A note on tumeric….it stains everything. My bowl stays yellow for a while after using it. Just keep that in mind and don’t spill it.
1/4 tsp Mustard Seed
1/2 tsp Celery Seed
1/2 cup Vinegar. I also used my Apple Cider Vinegar in this recipe. You can find out how to make that here.
1 cup sugar

Instructions

Mix the salt, tumeric, mustard seed, celery seed, vinegar, and sugar in a large microwave safe bowl.

A large bowl with sliced cucumbers and onions and the mixed ingredients to be poured over them. — The ingredients are mixed and the cucumbers and onions are sliced.

Slice the cucumbers and onions thinly and add to the bowl. Mix well to cover all the slices with the mix above.

Sliced cucumbers and onions with all the ingredients poured, mixed and ready to make sweet pickles. — Pour your mix over your sliced cucumbers and onions and stir well to cover every slice.

Microwave uncovered on high for 5 minutes.

Remove and mix well, again making sure you stir well to cover all the slices.

Mixed cucumbers and onions with the mixed poured over them for sweet pickles. — The beginning of best sweet pickles you’ve ever made. This is after the first 5 min.

Return the bowl to the microwave and heat again, uncovered, for another 5 min on high.

Remove from the microwave and let cool. Once they’ve cooled, refrigerate until cold. Now they’re ready to eat.

This recipe makes about a quart of pickles. I wasn’t able to get all the liquid in the quart jar along with the pickles. So I filled it all the way to the top and just added as much as I could

A quart and a pint of homemade sweet pickles ready to put in the refrigerator. — This recipe of sweet pickles had an extra onion added to the mix.

If you add an extra onion like I did, you’ll probably need another pint jar. With the extra pint jar you can get all the liquid into both jars.

Some people may think a cup of sugar is just too much. And that can be true, depending on your taste. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll be adjusting the amount of sugar and spices just out of curiosity in future batches. I’m curious to see how they turn out.

That’s really all there is to homemade sweet pickles.

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I did. If you do, share it with everyone. This is just too good not to share.

Do you have a simple recipe for pickles? Did you try this recipe and adjust the ingredients a bit? Share in the comments below, I’d love to know. Or if you tried it just the way it is, leave a comment and tell me what you think. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks for coming by.

Until next time.

Health, Wealth & Blessing ~ Tracey

June 18, 2019June 14, 2019

Growing A Garden

We’re growing a garden for the first time in several years. It’ll only be a small portion of the food we’ll eat this summer, but a little is better than none.

In the past, we’ve had a garden and grown tomatoes, a few peppers and some sweet potatoes, but it’s been a while, if ever, that we’ve actually made a full blown garden like the one we have now. I’m excited.

When I was a kid my dad always had a garden and grew all kinds of vegetables that mom would freeze or can. I remember having to water and weed the garden during the summer. I think those jobs were mostly to keep me out of trouble during the weekday. But it was a way to make me responsible for something at a young age too. And while I hated having to do it, I’m glad they made me do. I did learn a thing or two, even if I would have never admitted it to them.

I also remember sitting on the back porch snapping bean and shelling peas with mom. While I wasn’t terribly fond of messing with the beans and peas, I did enjoy sitting out there with mom and dad on the porch. Those are good memories.

But, sadly, I didn’t appreciate the garden back then and missed the opportunity to learn a ton of lessons from my dad.

But, I’m learning now and I know that would make him happy.

If you’ve ever eaten a homegrown tomato, you know how much better it is than a store bought tomato. It has so much more flavor, you can’t even compare the two.

That holds true for everything I’ve ever had out of a garden.

We have a compost pile too, but it’s not nearly big enough for the size of our garden. We’ve covered what we could with the compost we had and then bought some organic cotton burr to work into the rest.

Only half of this garden plot is being used because we haven’t been able to amend the soil in the other half yet.

We didn’t get the entire garden planted this year because we weren’t able to get the amendments we wanted worked into the soil over the whole garden before planting season and because we got 30 inches of rain last month. There was so much mud you just couldn’t get in it to do anything.

What We’re Growing In Our Garden

We did get several different kinds of vegetables planted, but not near as much as I’d like. But our ground is heavy clay and we have to get the rest of the ground amended in order to plant the rest. I hope to have that done in time to plant a fall garden.

Here’s what we have planted for this season.

Tomatoes

I started tomatoes from seed this year. That’s the first time I’ve ever done that. I actually only germinated them to see if they were good. The seeds were so old I really didn’t think they would be viable. Apparently, I was wrong. It was so cool.

I only have 1 mortgage lifter tomato, but it’s so pretty.

Peppers

I did the same with peppers and it worked for them too. But then something ate them, completely. So, we had to buy new plant starts if we wanted peppers this year.

We have 5 pepper plants, but this is my first bloom.

Radishes

I remember as a kid mom and dad putting raw radishes on the table at every supper. I never liked them. Mom and dad loved them. But, recently we were watching a video on YouTube and a lady who grew them talked about roasting them being a game changer.

So, I thought why not, and we gave it a try. They were awesome!! So, needless to say, we’ve planted a couple of rows of radishes. Let me tell you roasted radishes are completely different than raw ones.

We started the bigger radishes quite a while ago and have been eating them already. So we decided to plant a few more rows for later.

We didn’t have a great germination rate in the first batch so we planted more of them the second round. Of course they all germinated this time.

Okra

We also planted a few kinds of okra. I’ve never been an okra fan but my daughter-in-law recently discovered she liked them, so I planted some for her. My husband and I decided we’d give them another try too.

I planted two different kinds. One is the burgundy okra, shown above. The pictures I’ve seen show them to be very pretty plants. The other is the Crimson Spineless which is what I heard a lot of people talking about. Since I didn’t know anything about them, I decided I would start with what others liked best.

Most of the okra came up too. I’m pretty happy to see that. I really hope we like it too.

Cantaloupe

Several years ago a cantaloupe grew in an old compost pile we had. I got about 12 cantaloupes from that plant and they were so good and juicy. So I saved the seeds out of the last one I had. This year I planted three of those seeds. They are all growing. I’m so excited for those.

Green Beans

They have a ways to go yet, but they’ll get there. We have 7 of these.

We both like green beans and have recently discovered these new beans (to us, at least) called Chinese noodle beans. I found something a little different called Chinese Yard Long Beans.

The people who talk about them rave about the taste.

They’re pole beans, so we’ve planted them on a trellis. I can’t wait for them to grow up the trellis and give them a try when they’re ready.

After Thoughts

As an “after thought” we decided to try a few rows of corn and a row of carrots. My husband loves carrots and I wanted to try the baby corns, which he loves too. The corn has just begun to come up, but we only planted 2 rows, so I’m not real sure if they’ll pollinate correctly and actually produce ears. We’ll see.

My husband planted 3 different types of carrots. All the seeds were from 2013, so I wasn’t hopeful, but 2 of these 3 types have germinated and started to grow. We’re both pretty excited about those.

See those tiny pieces of green? Trust me, those are carrots.

We found this growing in the compost pile too. As you can see, it’s taken over and neither of us have it in us to kill these beautiful plants. We pulled one out and put it in the garden earlier. Our plan was to remove the rest of these once the one we took out started growing. But, the one we transplanted didn’t grow. It hasn’t died, but it just won’t grow. So, we decided to leave the these.

There’s a couple of tomatoes in there too. Everything is volunteer, so we’ll let them go and see what happens. This means, of course, we won’t be turning the compost for a while. I guess, that’s okay too.

See that tomato up under that squash and what I think is a sunflower.

Here’s the other tomato, smack dab in the middle of all that squash, with a nice spread of lambs quarter right next to it. I think I’ll pull the lambs quarter out though.

Later in the year I’ll start planting for fall. We’ll plant things that like the cooler weather like leafy greens, peas and hopefully some broccoli. We’ll just see what grows.

My husband and I have decided to make this garden an experiment. We’ll try things and see what happens and next year we’ll adjust.

In my opinion, this is one of my best DIYs yet. I can’t wait for everything to begin producing. I love the taste of homegrown food. It’s funny how things change as you grow up and get older. I hope my grandkids learn it sooner than I did.

As our garden grows more, I’ll update with new posts. I hope you’ll come back later to see what it looks like.

Are you growing a garden this year? What did you plant? What’s coming up? Do you have pictures, post them below. I’d love to see what your garden looks like. If you’re not growing one, I hope I’ve inspired you to try. Experiment, see what you can grow. You can build on it more next year. Let’s share some ideas so we can all try something new next year.

Thanks for coming by. Until next time –

Health, Wealth & Blessings ~ Tracey

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

Homemade Bug Spray

Homemade bug spray is easy to make. Your homemade bug spray can be as organic as you want it to be, there are no chemicals and best of all it works.

Homemade bug spray is not going to be near as long lasting as the store bought stuff. I don’t know what they use to make it stick to you so long, but this homemade bug spray doesn’t have it.

My batch of bug spray. Sorry for that crooked picture.

What we buy in the stores has so many ingredients in it we can’t pronounce that I’m just not willing to use on me and mine, if I can at all help it. And like so many things we buy these days we just don’t know where that stuff came from or how it was made.

I use this homemade spray on my grandkids, my furbabies, and myself so I want it to be as natural and safe as it can be.

Like most homemade stuff, it doesn’t have the staying power the industrial stuff you buy from a store does. You have to remember to reapply it every few hours especially if you are sweating badly or getting wet. But that’s okay because it smells good and it’s all natural so it can’t hurt you.

What Attracts Mosquitoes

There are several things that attract mosquitoes to the human body. Here’s a short list of the primary ones.

Carbon dioxide. This is the gas that we expel when we breath. This is what lets them know there is a food supply nearby.
Body Odor. If you sweat, make sure you wash off regularly to help prevent the growth of bacteria. The bacteria that grows from sweating is what creates the odor that attracts mosquitoes to you.
Secretors. Sounds terrible doesn’t it? Apparently about 80% of the human population are what’s considered to be “secretors”. These people secrete saccarides (a sugar based chemical) and antigens. These antigens indicate your blood type and mosquitoes like type “O” blood most and type “A” blood least. Who knew?
Lactic acid. We emit lactic acid through our skin through activity and by eating certain foods. So the more activity, the more lactic acid you will emit. Foods like soured milks, kefir, yogurt and some cottage cheeses contain the lactic acid your body emits.

The above items are all related to scent which is the primary attraction for mosquitoes. Some other things that attract them are heat, moisture, movement and color.

I found out that pregnant women are shown to exhale 21% more carbon dioxide and tend to be warmer in the belly area. So any pregnant ladies may want to wear light weight long sleeves and pants to avoid as much exposure as possible.

I also found out they like dark colors. I’m kind of fond of wearing dark colors too, so that’s a problem for me. I might have to change up what I wear when I’m home in the evening.

Most things you buy for any kind of bug control either contains or at least smells like citronella. And there’s a good reason for that.

Citronella

From what I read in researching for this post citronella works because it helps mask the carbon dioxide from our breathing and the lactic acid that we emit through our skin.

Lavender

I use lavender because I like the smell and for all the other reasons I mentioned in my previous post here. But I also found out that mosquitoes just flat don’t like the smell. I actually read they they will avoid it “at all costs”.

From what I’ve read, mosquitoes don’t like several of the heavily scented plants and herbs like geraniums, basil, several types of mints, and rosemary, just to name a few. You know, all those herbs that you can run your hands through and then smell the oils on them.

I like the smell of citronella and lavender, so that’s the mixture I’ve gone with. You can use the mix that you like best using the essential oils mentioned above. You can research other herbs too to find those that you might like that I haven’t named.

Homemade Bug Spray Recipe

This recipe is so easy. It consist of water and essential oils. The only caveat is that you use real essential oils, not the synthetic equivalents. They won’t have the same potency that the real essential oils have.

You can choose the potency you like best, but this is how I mix it.

About 1-1/2 to 2 Cups of water in a spray bottle.

I added about 100 drops of essential oils. 50 of Citronella and 50 of lavender.

Remember you’ll have to shake your spray bottle every time you use it. Oil and water don’t mix, so you need to help that along every time you use it.

There are several places you can get your essential oils. Most of the organic stores in your area will sell essential oils. I get my oils from doTERRA. I actually became a doTERRA consultant for the discounts because I found I used essential oils for so many things. You can see what all they have here, if you like.

Several different essential oils you can use.

There are several places to get your spray bottles. Depending on what was in it, you could reuse an old spray bottle. You’d want to make sure it never any anything kind of toxic or harmful liquids in it previously. Make sure you clean it thoroughly before using, including the sprayer nozzle.

I hope you enjoy this recipe. Experiment with different scents to find the one you like best. You could actually make specific scents for specific people. Play with it and have fun. Let me know what you come up with by leaving a comment below. I really would like to know.

Until next time –

Health, Wealth & Blessing ~ Tracey