Puttery Treats For A Lovely New Day
Today’s feature is from Brocante Home with Puttery Treats For A Lovely New Day, you’ll find a glorious list of creative (and beautiful) ideas that are simple to implement yet guaranteed to make the ordinary a little more special.
Here’s a sampling:
Steep finely chopped sage leaves in distilled boiling water for one hour. Filter, decant into a pretty pressed glass bottle and voila… gently scented ironing water for laundry day.
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Lift up the cistern lid of your loo and sprinkle a little aromatherapy oil into the clean water there…
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Use a vintage casserole or old lidded chamber pot as a counter top kitchen composter…
A few more ideas:
- Use pretty vintage tea towels as placemats
- Try lavender linen starch when ironing your linens
- Freshen up your carpets with herbal carpet freshener
- Place some rose dusting powder in your lingerie drawer
Lots of lovely ideas shared, please visit the site above for all the goodies. If you have more ideas, I’d love to hear them :).
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12 Aug 2008 at 3:53 am
I put drops of aromatic oils in my vacuum cleaner filter, just a few at a time. A lovely scent, rather than the horrible dust smell, pervades my home as I vacuum.
I also use heavily diluted eucalyptus oil in a spray bottle (dilute with water, give a good shake every time just before use) when I am changing my bedclothes.
I vacuum the mattress and pillows, spray and then leave for as long as possible.
At least once a month, I rotate my mattress so that it gets a proper chance to air.
When the weather is going to be pleasant on linen day, I get assistance from my dh or someone strong and cart the mattress outside and put it on top of our dd’s trampoline to air out in the sunshine. The pillows go either on top of the lavender hedge or on top of the rotary clothes line, or just pegged to the clothes line.