Fresh Herb Cocktails

For a Great Garden Cocktail use Fresh Herbs!

Whether you muddle, infuse, make an herb simple syrup, or just garnish your cocktail with herbs, they make a magnificent addition to summer drinks.

Some of our favorite herbs to use in cocktails are;
Mint
Rosemary,
Lemon Verbena
Lemon Balm
Basil
Borage
Cilantro
Dill
Lavender Growing Lavender

Here is a favorite recipe for a Lavender Cocktail:
Ingredients:
1 8oz. glass filled with ice
1 1 1/2 ounce of vodka
Tonic Water
1/2 ounce of Lavender Simple Syrup(recipe below)

In  Cocktail shaker mix the above ingredients and shake well! Shake it baby, shake it!
Pour the drink back into the glass with the ice and garnish with a lavender sprig. Enjoy on the terrace, a balcony, in your garden or home. Most enjoyed with friends and family.

Lavender Simple Syrup:
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of finely minced lavender leaves and flowers (I suggest a food processor and mincing with all of the sugar)
In a small saucepan, bring the water and lavender sugar combination to a boil, simmer until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and let cool completely. The syrup can be refrigerated for up to a month.

Smell is the most powerful of our senses

"Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor." - Victor Hugo



Various Scents

 Smell is the most powerful of our senses,
and the fastest way to our emotions, and
yet we turn our noses up at it..

Smell can instantly trigger emotions, and
it roots us to experience. Without smell
we would be denied so much of our
intimate memory, because scent has a
fast route to the part of the brain that deals
with emotions and memory.

Here are a few a few suggested scents  for
different rooms in your home:
Bedroom: lavender, rose, geranium, ylang-ylang
Living room: amber, pine or juniper
Kitchen: grapefruit
Bathroom: rose or marjoram
Scents Natural

Oils for different effects

For entertaining and for different effects essential oils can do it all!

Recent American research suggests that the divorce rate is higher
these days because we mask our natural smell, so that when we fall
out we don't even have the safety net of a familiar smell to catch.us.

Our homes are such a cacophony of different artificial smells, from
household cleansers to cosmetics, that we cannot tell what is natural
anymore! It is time for everyone to take back control of what is in
your home.

Herbal Foot Care

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake

"Plants are magnificent. There is not a tree or a flower
That does not radiate beauty. Fragrance from plants,
Has been said to alert the gods to our presence, and act as a
sign that the human mind is focused and receptive to spiritual
guidance. In many cultures sweet-smelling aromas were and still
are associated with divinity - with gods, heavens, angels, and saints
all being attributed with having a delightful fragrance." quoted from
The Fragrant Heavens by Valerie Ann Worwood

If you work in a garden, in an office, retail store, a warehouse or
Are just going about day to day, your feet take a beating, and one of
the best ways to take care of yourself with by taking care of your feet.
Here is an easy  Herbal Foot Bath Recipe:
A small pan or tub that both of your feet can fit comfortably into.
2 Gallons of very warm water
A few good size sprigs of rosemary from the garden
6 drops of rosemary essential oil
6 drops of lavender essential oil
4 drops of junior essential oil
Marbles to roll your feet on in the water
A towel to dry your feet afterwards
Soak your feet for 10 to 15 minutes and towel dry.
Hot water foot baths have been for hndreds of years to treat feet problesms
as well as headaches, colds, abdomen problems, varicose veins, and exhaustion.
We make a wonderful Peppermeint Foot Lotion which we have sold over the years in fine stores around the U.S., and is great to use daily, but also right after drying your feet from the foot bath.Peppermint Foot Lotion

"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on stage. I don't enoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt." - Barbara Steisand