How many times when Christmas comes along we end up spending a fortune on gifts for friends and family and regretting it after-wards?
We often seem to be caught up in a rush to spend as much as possible on commercial products which are not the least bit personal when in fact we could save money and make them ourselves!
Nothing gives more satisfaction than seeing friend's face light up when you give them a fragrant gift.
When the gift is home made, it makes it all the more special!
Making home-made fragrant crafts requires little time, but the finished product lasts for years.
It isn't hard to do and over time, you will have fun making them for gifts, and even for sale if you so desire.
Check out Marlene Daniels new E-book “Easy Fragrant Gifts” with 24 easy recipes for beautiful natural herbal fragrant home-made gifts for Christmas, but also for holiday, birthday or any occasion.
You can give everyone you know a fragrant home-made gift this year!
People have used herbal crafts for centuries to decorate and add fragrance to their homes.
Nature smells better and is healthier for you and the environment; there is nothing nicer than having your home smell fresh with the scents of flowers or spices; nothing overbearing.
Your friends will love that you have put your own time and effort into making the fragrant gifts and will treasure them even more.
Published by SoapConscious, the E-book “Easy Fragrant Gifts” has 38 pages with a selection of lovely gifts which are easy to make and will certainly not break the bank.
Learn to make Pomanders, they are natural air fresheners, and moth repellents. To place in your clothes closets, drawers or simply stack several in a bowl for a beautiful display. Made traditionally with various citrus fruit, mainly oranges as well as apples. They are found in some gift shops but the price is so high it is cheaper and more satisfying to make your own.
Learn to create charming lavender "wands" that will keep your closet or drawer moth-free and smelling wonderful. Because all of the flowers are folded up inside the stems, they won't fall out as they dry and become brittle. These make pretty room and car deodorisers.
Collect and assemble your own delicious pot-pourris. Pot-pourri, with its subtle natural scent, is a favourite for bedrooms and living rooms. Home-made pot-pourri is created by combining the dried nature finds, wood shavings, flowers, leaves, or any other fragrant plant part, in an airtight container and letting it cure over time.
Go on a nature walk and gather materials to make all natural pot-pourri blends for your home . Gathering the ingredients is fun for the whole family, and the results are sure to please.
Lighted pot-pourri jars will make a festive addition to your holiday decor. They're easy to make, inexpensive, and they make great gifts.
Making herbal scented sachets Besides containers you can put pot-pourri in scented pillows and make sachets with which to perfume your drawers and closets. These also make cheap and charming gifts, especially if you use pretty flowered material and lace to decorate them.
Learn to make your own dried fruit slices and peels are fragrant and can be added to pot-pourri blends, fixings blends, wreaths, swags. They also make pretty and fragrant gift package decorations. When they are placed around candles, especially bakery candles, they give a nice country prim look.
How to recycle old candles: How many bits of candles, burned down candle jars and votives have you thrown out over the years? You can save all those candle remnants, scrape out the wax, remove the bits of wick and metal bits, wash out the jars then make brand new candles to enjoy.
How to make Wax Melts; Another way to recycle candle wax is to make Wax Melts for Oil burners. These wax melts are used in the top of oil burners, the wax reduces the speed at which the oil evaporates and can last up to 8 hours which means you don't have to keep topping it up with oil or water.
How to Make the Queen of Hungary Water; This very old water recipe can be used as an astringent, aftershave, deodorant, hair and skin tonic and even as an inhaled headache remedy
How to Make Room Spray ;Most of us reach for commercial products when we need a disinfectant room spray, without stopping to think that the product contains ammonia, bleach, alcohol and other products that pollute the air in our homes.
Forget air fresheners in a can! Go for natural, environmentally friendly and inexpensive home made fragrances instead.
Make your own room sprays with essential oils. It only takes few minutes and everybody likes them.
Make one for every rooms! Make one for the office, one for the linen, one for the car, one for the bedroom, one for..the dogs!
You will also find some interesting ideas for wonderful air fresheners fragrances with 20 easy essential oil blends to use in your fragrant crafts and to get you started , but you can go ahead and create your own favourite blends using scents that you love the most!
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The E-book “Easy Fragrant Gifts” has 24 easy to make fragrant herbal crafts that make wonderful home made Christmas gifts.
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This Christmas we'll be swamped with offers, ads and invitations to buy more stuff. But now there's a way to say enough and join a movement dedicated to reviving the original meaning of Christmas giving. Open to everyone with a thirst for change and a desire for action, Buy Nothing Christmas is a stress-reliever, and more people need to hear about it. Make your own!
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