Hi ladies! We are back at it, and jumping right in with a suggestion about making home a little more lovely... and sexy?
I've been wanting to make a linen spray for awhile, inspired by this holy passage of Scripture, some bedroom wisdom from an adulteress:
"I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love" (Proverbs 7:16-18).
Now, while I understand her ways are wily, I feel like there is something for wives to learn from her. And as I contemplated squirting aloe gel and cinnamon on our bed, I felt the result would look less like love and more like a child had gotten into forbidden cabinets. I tried to research what form of these things she was actually using, but to no avail. The myrrh, though... there's something I can work with.
Carla loaned me myrrh essential oil for secret pre-wedding rituals. I may use a bit of this, or some of the lavender oil I just bought, to make a linen/room spray and see if it doesn't start to spice up our lives a little bit. I saw spray bottles in the dollar section of Target, so that's the plan this week. Here's the recipe I'm using:
How to Make Your Own Linen SprayNick & Jordan are the only ones I know who have vodka lying around (to Charlie's dismay there's no hard liquor here at the moment ;) so I'll try it without and see what happens.
Don't be put off by this less than appealing photo. I made this meal tonight for Charlie and he went crazy for it. Literally crazy. I can take or leave Rachael Ray's on-screen personality but her recipes have proved to be - must I say it? - yumm-o. Here's a link to this recipe. Only for mushroom-lovers. This is a red wine, candles, date night kind of meal that only took about 25 minutes. 