Pepperminty Gifts!

Well, I have been somewhat thwarted in my Christmas gift making since my trusty sewing machine needed to visit the repairman! I am so grateful to have it back so I can get back to work!! But I have not been completely idle the last week.

Holiday Baking!!

Gift baskets filled with goodies for friends and family.

Some of the gift basket goodies were made from mint I had drying in the kitchen (you can see in the baking photo that there is still quite a bit hanging on my hutch). The Lemon Peppermint Salt Scrub is for my fellow greenhouse workers with dirty hands! I found some great scrub recipes here, and added my own peppermint flair to the lemon scrub! A few drops of peppermint oil, and finely ground peppermint leaves added to the Lemon Salt Scrub made a very refreshing body scrub!

The tea is really quite wonderful too! Since, I also had dried rosemary that needed to be used, I "Googled" rosemary & peppermint together, and BINGO! Well, actually, it wasn't quite that easy. I didn't find a recipe, but I found some that were close so I tweaked what I found and came up with a great tea! Basically, it is a lot of mint, and less rosemary run very quickly through the food processor, and packaged in a cute little mason jar! Add some cute tags and Wallah! I Love making fun gifts out of things I have around the house!

Have a wonderful Christmas Season!!