Nature's Holiday Candle for your holiday host or hostess :)

(Recipe inside)

                               I like to bring something for each hostess during the holidays

                        and give our neighbors a special something during the holidays as well.

                                                   I can't tell you how many times I get

                                                  asked why and how this aroma can be so,

                                       apple pie-ish yet mulled cider-ish and just so good?

                                               While I still love some candles (don't get me wrong),

                                               I do feel real ingredients is better than fake synthetic smells any day! Anyway, I tell them that

                            it's simply God's natural herbs and spices at work, simmering on the back burner.

                                                    And might I add, it smells up the WHOLE house!

                                                       

                                         So here's the recipe for those who have asked

                                      and those who would like to bring a budget-friendly, home-made

                                                gift to your neighbors, friends, family or the

                                                        hostess with the mostest this season!

                                           So how you make theses hoilday aroma boxes/ bags:
                                                        (  we will make 10 at a time )

                                           You'll need some cuties or oranges, lemons and

                               and holiday spices. For the holiday spice packet, I used 2 cinnamon sticks,

        1 star of anise, and 2 or 3 cloves each per bag or box(to clairfy... not garlic cloves, hee hee, unless an Italian Christmas aroma is your thing,I mean the whole brown cloves used for holiday cider and such) and then I sprinkle nutmeg and allspice in each season packet (a.k.a.small ziploc)and voila! You're ready to assemble.Oh, and you might print off directions and then sign it

                        from your home to theirs or whatever suits your fancy :)

  ( From your circus to theirs, from your chaos to theirs, you know just whatever comes to you :)

                                                                       

Now to actually make it,  you do this.......

peel the cutie and lemon peel and add just the peel to 3 cups of boiling water.

Next, add the seasoning packet and once it has been boiling for 5 minutes, 

turn down and let simmer. Add water as needed, it will evaporate.

                               Next, we get started assembling the others boxes with festive filler,                                                       adding the cutie, the lemon and the seasoning packet and then we lay

                                                             the directions on top.

                                                           

                                           

Sara decorated them so cutsie!

                                             And there you have it, nature's candle in a box!

                                            We have gifts for each "hostess with mostest",

                                            but also neighbors, our friends and family have loved them too!!

                                             

                                                         

                                               I wish their was a smell-a-vision for yall!

                                        Because cinnamon, spice and everything nice

                                                is happening right now! Enjoy!

from our kitchen to yours:)

Just some of the "hostess with the mostest" we gave them too already this year!

(we headed over to family later)

here's Gradmas cat, meet "Miss Kitty"

Wishing you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving weekend around those who love you!

                                          P.S. speaking of aroma

Food for thought:

your attitude is like the aroma of your heart,

 if it stinks, your attitude most definetely will.

                                                    A thankful people is a happy people and they
                                      give off a sweet aroma to those who come around them :).


                                            I'm learning more and more not to be too busy to be
                                                        thankful for the little things now,

 the funny moments now, the little hugs, the walks in the changing leaves,

the little misspelled notes just to remind me I'm loved,  

because at the end of the day,

 I'm pretty sure I'll realize even more so, 

those weren't the little things at all.