Weird Hippie Project Number 17

So, I wanted to take a moment to give you the information on one of my tiny compulsions, in doing some crunchy home making.

I have a firm belief that a home that smells like home is really home. So dinner cooking, filling a home with aroma and warmth, that home is really a home. However, no one stays in my kitchen cooking all day, and I absolutely love being welcomed home, or into a room even, with ludicrously delicious scent.

Because of this dilemma, I have taken up dipping my own candles out of local beeswax and recycled candle pieces, but there is a quicker, greener way!

Velveeta and canned salsa=not crunchie!

Behold a picture found on google images of a crock pot a lot like ours!
Ours is the same size, with a price mark from the local Am Vets. These can ALWAYS be found at your local thrift store, normally for 99 cents or less. They are absolutely invaluable to a scent sensitive addict like myself.

Here is my daily routine.
1) Wake up.
2) Grog.
3) Brew tea.
4) Toss the extra tea, with leaves, in mini-crock, topless (that naughty crock).
5) Enjoy yummy scents for hours.

Sometimes if I am having a blue day, can't cook, or I'm throwing a party, I toss in a cinnamon stick with a few cloves, potentially a cardamom pod if I'm feeling saucy. Aromatherapy oils work too, but its not the same. The actual spices can be savored over and over just by adding more water.

Sometimes if I buy a tea I don't wind up enjoying, like a Celestial Seasonings buy that was on sale locally after the holidays, I just designate it for scent-pot. And nothing is wasted. In Buffalo when electricity is generated by Niagara Falls, I feels much better about this than using petroleum based, artificial scents, chock-full of carcinogens and allergens. Adding a level of absolute green insanity, I almost always use a half used cup of tea or water or cooking liquid, making it a project using only electricity, and not much of it.

Go ahead and try!