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 With the COVID19 social restrictions & distancing in full swing, we have all the kids at home for the next 3 weeks (+). I figure there is no better time to get started on Spring Cleaning! We transitioned our home to Thieves products about a year ago and have never looked back since. This allows me to feel confident that not only am I keeping our home safe from chemicals, but I'm also killing yucky stuff!!! Many people have asked "Can I use Thieves on..." and the answer is YES!  EVERYTHING!!!! Since I like making fun things and giving great resources here are a checklist to help you with your Spring Cleaning journey & recipes to help you do it THIEVES style!  Get your Thieves on with all this goodness! Want to know why Thieves is soooooo AMAZING? Check out the Thieves Blog  Don't forget to the recipe for Carpet & Mattress Freshening - 1 cup baking soda & 10 drops essential oils of choice ( I like Thieves, Eucalyptus, & Lavender). WAIT, YOU DON'T HAVE THIEVES YET? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GET SOME!!   Sensory Dough made with essential oils can help calm a toddler, de-stress a teen, and won't harm a baby when he eats it. How many toys in your house are that versatile.
The dough itself is a great easy activity to make with your kiddos. Mine love to customize it with their choice of colors and essential oil scents. I mean can your play dough calm, boost mood, and even help improve immunity? Here is the recipe we like best:
Mix the flour, salt, cream of tarter, water, and FCO together in a large bowl. Adjust the water or flour to ensure the right consistency. Divide the dough into smaller sections and add 6 drops of essential oil to each one (we like to coordinate the color and scent like orange essential oil and orange dough). Then add a little bit of food coloring to each section and knead it in until it is thoroughly combined. It takes a little while to knead. Store the play dough in air tight containers and enjoy.  A room spray brings the Holidays to any space! These amazing little bottles of AWESOME are a must for this and every holiday season.  These amazing recipes smell great and bring all the Holiday Spirit! Add a pretty label  These cute labels get printed on Avery's labels and if you want to get really creative, add some mica dust to the bottle for a swirly colorful effect!
 Every year I do my best to pick personal gifts out for my friends and family. I have always believed that a gift should make a person feel known and loved, because that to me is the best kind of gift. Handmade gifts can be just that, a personal gift that conveys the love through the time & energy to create it. However, lets have an honest moment, I have 4 kids and I don't have endless hours to sit and craft to my hearts delight. I have an hour (MAYBE) or but most of the time only 5-10 minutes here and there. Last year, I discovered how easy it was to make awesome cute gifts using my oils and some pretty labels, tags, and ribbon. It was super easy and awesome and so I'm taking it a step further this year and hosting fun events for my friends. Crafting is more fun with friends! Plus I can eat, drink, and get all my gifts done in one night. Since not all of you can fit in my cozy little cottage, I'm going to share all my tips, tricks, recipes, and ideas. Enjoy and be inspired to create some Handmade Holiday cheer!  Diffuser Ornaments or Garland I love using handmade ornaments on my tree and adding oils that make my house smell amazing. We are a fake tree family, so I add that Evergreen smell to it with wooden ornaments, salt doughs ornaments or these terra cotta ones. Take it a step further and create some holiday garland with those wooden or clay ornaments and some greenery. Anyway you do it, wrap them up and gift them with a bottle of your favorite oil and it's a season long gift.  Holiday Room Sprays Speaking of making my house smell like the season, these room sprays are a favorite in my house. I mix and match different oily mixes and put them in every room. Get all my favorite room spray recipes AND my free printable labels. Add a ribbon and gift these bottle of amazing Holiday Spirit!  Bath Salts & Bath Soaks Self care is something that my group of friends needs to be reminded of constantly. We all run and go and give of our time, energy, and emotions consistently. So a little something to relax, support our emotions and unwind from the stress is NECESSARY! This easy Bath Soak is AMAZING! Make it even easier by ditching the oats and just going with the Epsom Salt and Baking Soda. The ingredients in this are awesome for detoxing the body and the possibilities for oils to use are endless. Try: StressAway for extra tense people, Panaway and Peppermint for active bodies, Eucalyptus for those sniffly days, or just Lavender. Any way you make it, put it in a pretty jar, add a label or tag, some ribbon or twine, and your good to go.  Bath Bombs & Fizzies While we are talking about self care and Bath/Spa recipes. I need to share this recipe for bath bombs. They take a little while to dry and set, but they are super easy to make and even nicer to enjoy! Try: Try Eucalyptus & Raven, or just Lavender for these too. I like to put these in a pretty canister, add a label or tag, some ribbon or twine, a sprig of floral or evergreen and these look as good as they fell to use.  Bubble Bath & Shower Gel One more self care and Bath/Spa recipe. I make my own bubble bath and shower gel! If you read the ingredients in most of the store bought stuff you'd find the word FRAGRANCE but that word is a dirty toxic word in our house. Why? Because most of the time it's a word that represents hundred of chemical and synthetic compounds that have no regulations. Yup, they don't have to disclose, and even if they did the FDA isn't really checking into those chemicals and their longterm effects. I'm not a guinea pig and I don't want anyone else to be either so I make my stuff with 100% pure therapeutic grade Young Living oils with the Seed to Seal quality guarantee. Anyways, bath gels are super easy. Just castile soap, vegetable glycerin, and oils. For extra bubbles add a tsp of baking soda. Put it in a pretty bottle with a tag and ribbon and you've got a gift that is ready to give. My favorites other than joy are Eucalyptus & Peppermint, Grapefruit, StressAway, or Lavender.  Make-up Removing Pads These are an everyday staple in my home. I use them for nightly cleansing, my girls use them as well (start them early), my husband uses them after a long day of tradesman work too. So grab a jar and make these awesome little cleansing pads. I add Melrose for problem skin, Frankincense for aging skin, a little grapeseed or rosehip oil for dry skin. For oily skin I hold the coconut oil all together. They are easy and quick to make and are a great gift with a Savvy Minerals Lipgloss, Lip Scrub, or moisturizer (I use Goats Milk from Goatslotion.com & Oils for that and its AMAZING!!!)  Soap Bars Cute soaps that smell INCREDIBLE are a great gift. Plus with remade soap base in a variety of options (I like organic goats milk, coconut milk and glycerin bases), they are so easy to make. Just melt, pour into molds, and add oils and any other add ins to the mix. Coffee beans go great with Cedarwood, dried Lavender, Himalayan sea salt, sprigs of dried herbs, etc... Or just make them plain for a easy gift option. Wrap them in bags with a tags and twine and they are a pretty gift with purpose.  The Whole Deal! Give the gift of long-term wellness to someone special or to yourself! Anyone who orders their Premium Starter Kit from now through Christmas will get a holiday surprise to go along with it! These 11 oils can make so many DIY items for you and your loved ones. The $160 dollar investment for more than $375 worth of awesome, will bring returns almost immediately. You can make hundreds in gifts and have stuff left for yourself.
Or be the most amazing gift giver EVER!! These oils support the whole body and make a house smell like a home. So whether you are doing Handmade Holiday gifts or want to be a gift giving dynamo, oils are a great way to do it!  What do you do with your day after brunch and leftovers? After cooking all day, I have no intentions to make a huge beautiful brunch. Don't get me wrong I want a beautiful brunch, but I want it easy and not a lot of work. So you bet I'm not going to be standing there dunking, soaking, and grilling up yummy pieces of bread for french toast. But I can manage to throw some cubes of bread together with ham (or turkey - I tend to save the turkey for my omelet or frittata) and bake up a French Toast Casserole. French Toast Casserole You'll Need:
 To continue our French inspired brunch theme. Let's talk an amazing sandwich covered in cheese and topped with an egg or not! I LOVE cheese!! I said it, I’m a cheese freak (and yes my name is Bre also a cheese). Anyways, this amazing sandwich is great for any meal, but especially day after brunch. It’s awesome with turkey, even better with ham and if you don’t like the egg from Madame, hold it off and make it Croque Monsieur. I love to add spinach, mushrooms, tomato, or even avocado when I make it without the egg. Any way you slice it this brunch fav is one of my faves! Croque Madame You'll Need:
 Moving onto lunch or dinner, this is a must have in my house. You can thank my mom, Patti, for this yummy remix recipe. Though I have added my own tweaks through the years it all started with her. Turkey makes a great add to anything that you would normally put chicken in, especially pasta. We love pasta, like for real who doesn't? But in all seriousness, I love making this Turkey Tetrazzini and my Turkey Alfredo Bake with penne noodle, alfredo sauce, capers, and diced shallots topped with 6 cheese italian blend. Any way you do it, it’s a delicious way to remix both turkey and rolls, add a side of leftover veggies and you’ve got a great remix meal. Turkey Tetrazzini You'll Need:
Serve with leftover green beans, cranberry sauce, and rolls. Then have some Sweet Potato Casserole leftovers for dessert!  Back in the day when I lived with my roomie Jennie, in Lincoln Park (downtown Chicago), I loved to get creative in the kitchen and feed us and our friends. Not all the recipes turned out awesome, but my stuffed peppers were the bomb. This twist on those peppers is just as good, and super easy. Just combine in a bowl, fill, bake, and eat. Turkey Stuffed Peppers You'll Need:
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 You can’t have holiday meals without desserts!!! I eat my food just to get to the dessert! This twist on traditional pumpkin pie is a hit in our house. Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie You'll Need:
 I am about to share a highly coveted recipe here folks. I created this dessert about 12 years ago. I’ve never liked apple pie, I know I’m a freak to some of you, but the texture never did it for me. So when I was asked to bring an apple pie to my new hubby’s family holiday I cringed. Yes I could have bought something, but that's not my style, so I made this. It was gone, before everyone even got a piece and it's a must make every year since. This recipe is made even more tasty by adding in oils. But if you don’t have the oils, sub in 2 Tbsp. pumpkin or apple pie spice. Serve this baby with caramel sauce and vanilla bean ice cream and I promise you too will be making it every year or all year long. Apple Crumble Tort You'll Need:
Serve with caramel sauce (homemade is best) and Vanilla Bean ice cream, and I promise you'll never look back and you won't want to share!  So if you are the freaky person who doesn’t really like pie. It’s okay I’m only judging you silently (or not) from across the internet. Anyways, its good to have variety of options for your guests or for little kiddos. So these yummy cookies are an awesome addition to your sweets table. Snickerdoodle Cookies You'll Need:
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 Are you a Ham, Turkey, or both kind of family? We do Turkey for Thanksgiving and Ham for Christmas. So I need good recipes filled with flavors for both. Let's start with the Ham. I never made this growing up, but for my hubby HAM IS A MUST! So I had to learn and create my own twist on this classic. This glaze makes for an AMAZING ham. Spiced Ham Glaze You'll Need:
 Whether you roast, smoke, or fry, brining makes for a juicy bird! Yes, you can inject, but there is something about that turkey sitting in a bath of flavor overnight while all those flavors that permeate that meat. So if you have never brined, seriously consider it. We brine ours over night and then I make frozen herb butter that goes under the skin and all over the outside of our bird with all that salt and pepper! We fill the cavity with onions, heads of garlic, celery, lemon halves, and fresh poultry seasoning and we roast that baby. Savory Turkey Brine You'll Need:
To make the my herb butter for under the skin, just bring 2 sticks of good grass fed butter to room temperature and mix with 1 drop Thyme Vitality, 1 drop Sage Vitality, 1 drop Rosemary Vitality, and 2 drops Lemon Vitality. roll into a tube with food storage wrap around it and freeze over night. Slice and push under skin and slather on top as well. Salt & pepper generously after buttering the skin for a crispy amazing bird. Remember if you are not yet a member, get your Premium Starter Kit and add your favorite Vitality oils to your first months "Wellness Box" subscription with Essential Rewards.
 I'm a firm believer that the oh so yummy sides are almost as important as the main dish in my house. We have a few traditions that came from my grandma and great-grandma that I still carry on today. One of those is the apple stuffing. And actually it isn’t really stuffed in the turkey so I guess it’s more of a dressing, but we call it stuffing so stuffing it is! Over the years there have been a few extra add ins like sausage for my mom’s hubby and dried cranberries for a touch of tangy flavor. But no matter how you slice it up, those apples and bread make the holidays.  Cranberry Apple Stuffing (Dressing) You'll Need:
 So this one is hit or miss with some people, but never the way I make it! When we host we make them 2 ways. So whether you make it plain and just toss in the butter, mushrooms, almonds and hopefully a drop of Lemon Vitality, or you go all in on the casserole, green beans are a staple for the holidays. Green Bean Casserole You'll need:
 Um you can’t have Turkey, Ham or any kinda holiday dish without mashed or roasted potatoes. So whether you roast, slice, mash, smash or whip. Add some flavor to those taters! Rustic Rosemary & Garlic Mashed Potatoes You'll Need:
 This casserole is actually like the dessert you are allowed to have with your dinner! It’s sweet and spiced and AMAZING!! This is another one that we end up making 2 ways sliced and whipped to make sure that everyone gets a little of their family traditions in the mix. Sweet Potato Casserole You'll Need:
 This is one that you can do from the can or from scratch, but either way you can add some extra flavor with a drop of orange, lemon, lime, or citrus fresh vitality. We make it from scratch and I highly recommend it! Tangy Cranberry Sauce You'll Need:
 Finally, a holiday meal isn't complete without warm rolls with flavored butter!! Orange Honey Butter You'll need:
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 I don’t know about you, but when I host for the holidays people come over throughout the day up until the meal. They munch on all my Starters & Snacks, while they smell all that food cooking. And they need/want fun drinks and refreshments. Here are a few of my favorites, both adult & kid friendly. Let's start with the family friendly option. Harvest Punch You'll Need:
This is Harvest Punch is a fun way to add a little fizz and tang to cider. And again, make it all grown up with a little something extra, even better let people add their own by setting up a mini bar station right near the drink dispenser. Who doesn't like to have options?  Spiced Cider is a super easy classic. Like so easy you aren’t really even working, but it looks and tastes like you did! Plus, kick it up for adults by adding a little vodka, rum, or liquor. Or keep it family friendly by setting up those options for your guests to choose their add in. Spiced Apple Cider You'll Need:
Change it up and make this a warm beverage by making it in a crockpot or stockpot and adding it to a Coffee Carafe to keep it nice and toasty.  Now this one is just for the adults, and wow is it an awesome add to any holiday party! Who doesn’t love wine, I know I do!! And now wine feels like it’s got a seasonal twist, with this great Mulled Wine recipe. Does your family have an adult beverage of choice for the holidays? If not you do now! Mulled Wine You'll Need:
Make this a warm beverage as well by making it in a crockpot or stockpot and adding it to a Coffee Carafe to keep it nice and toasty.  Last but not least, don't forget to give your guests a palette refreshing options. With all the rich flavors of the holidays, a citrus infused water option is a must. I like to make up 2-3 pitchers of infused waters for my guests to try. You'll Need:
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