Room Spray Tutorial

Do you like room sprays?  Aromatherapy is a wonderful thing.  By using essential oils you can relax your body, wake up your mind and much more.  Making a room spray is very simple and easy to personalize. You only need 3 items.

A quick word on essential oils.  You can find these on many sites online, and also in the craft store most often located in the candle/soap making section.  I chose to buy mine from amazon.com and purchased oils that are premixed for the needs I am looking for.  Following is a small list explaining some of the easily obtained oils. 

Calming effect - Lavender and Rosemary
Wake up the mind - Citrus oils and Peppermint
Aphrodisiac - Ylang Ylang and Sandalwood

Tutorial for room spray

Materials:

• Essential oil(s) (make certain it is pure oil)
  
• Water
• Mini spray bottle (buy in travel supplies)

Fill spray bottle with ~2 ounces of water.  Add oil to the water until the spray reaches your desired strength, approximately 4 to 8 drops.  Shake bottle gently before each use.
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Operation Pillowcase

Reading through different blogs I came across one in support of our troops overseas.  They ask people to make pillowcases by hand and once there are enough collected to deliver to a troop, they are shipped overseas. If you are interested in making some pillowcases, go to this link for more information.  In a week or so, I'll be posting pictures of pillowcases that my children and I have made.
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Long Weekend

Schools are closed until Thursday so my kids get a free 5-day weekend.  I am praying that Thursday comes soon, the kids are wild!!  Sunday we spent 2.5 hours in Ikea, we don't get there often and we had fun with it, bought lots of stuff.  Today, I am getting all of the Ikea stuff put together and where it belongs.  We got the kids some circle carpets for their room and they loved them, actually cleaned their room to put them down!!! 

I have so many projects that I want to do and I need to get some tutorials posted.  I hope the room gets done soon!  I'll snap some pics of my progress tonight.

Have a good one!
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Its gonna be hard!

I made a commitment today.  I am going to lose weight, I am going to drop 10lbs by Feb. 20th.  I'm using Calorie Count and not a paid weight loss program.  This will be particularly hard since tonight is pizza night!!   I figure if I tell the world, then I have to stick with it!
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Craft room before

I took some pics of my soon to be craft room. Brace yourselves, this is quite scary! Anyone wanna come fix it up for me? I have this awful feeling that the redo will not happen overnight. E-bay here I come!

WISH ME LUCK!

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Happy New Year!!

I decided to reformat my blog for the new year. I have some small changes for this coming year. First, I want to lose weight. My thinking is to start exercising and decrease my portion sizes. I also want to attempt to include the Mayo clinics 10 super foodsinto my family's diet. This won't be easy as my kids and husband won't eat much of anything even remotely healthy. They'll just have to learn. Another change I want to make is to keep my house a little cleaner and much more organized. Finally, I am going to do my best to finish a task once it is started.

As far as crafts go, the most exciting part is my room. I am actually going to get my own craft room!!!! No more kitchen table for me. I can't wait to clean this room up and organize it for crafting! I'll post some pics later showing the horrible mess it is right now.

Time to go play with the baby! Have a great day!!! Pin It Now!